Beading is America's fastest-growing hobby, attracting women from ages 18 to 65-plus -- but especially those younger than 35, according to the Craft & Hobby Association. In fact, beading is so big it soon may rival knitting and scrapbooking as the top creative hobby among women.

Mindy Brooks, editor of Bead & Button magazine, which produces the show with Kalmbach Publishing Co., estimates that beading is now a $2 billion hobby.