Beaded Bead - Seed Bead Berry

This one is done in 11/0 Seed beads. Done in red, it kind of looks like a raspberry.
I am using a wooden bead for the core, approx 12/14 mm but you can use any bead, even a pearl.
Step 1 - begin with 4 beads threaded and tied in a circle. Go through 1st bead again.
Step 2 Add 1 bead, pass through next, add a bead, pass through next. Continue around until you add last bead, pass through bead and pass through 1 st bead added in this round
Step 3 - Add 2 beads and pass needle through corner bead - repeat around. At the end of this round, add the last two beads, go through corner bead and up through the #1 bead added in this
round.
Step 4 - Add a bead, go through the next, add a bead, repeat around, coming up through the last bead and the first bead added in this round. You'll notice you are now doing peyote in the round.
At the end of each round, be sure to step up by again passing through the first bead added in the round.
Step 5 - ? Repeat Step 4 until you reach the other 'shoulder' on the other end of the bead. This will vary depending on the size of your bead. Keep tension medium tight to keep shape with the bead.
In the next post, we'll decrease and finish.

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Beaded Bead - Peyote - Part 4

We now have two halves of equal size. What we do next depends on the size of the bead
we're covering. One half of the bead needs one more row than the other so the the peyote
stitch lines up and all we do is 'zip' the two sides together.
I've chosen a slightly larger bead to cover - again about 3/4 ". I've added 4 more peyote rows on one half and 5 more rows on the other half. See how the peyote stitch lines up in Pic 3. To zip them together, you just match up your beads on each half like zipper teeth and pass the needle
back and forth from one side to the other, closing up the zipper.
I find hold the whole thing together with a tooth pick works good.
After you zip the two
sides together, work in your thread ends and you are finished.

Beaded Bead - Peyote -Other Possibilities

Before we put the two halves together, I wanted to point out some other possibilities.
As you can see in Picture 4 here, we have a nice star pattern. You can use this pattern for
larger or smaller beads, by leaving a row or two off or adding a few rows. And increasing
the number of regular peyote rows it takes to connect the two pieces. Pic 1
You can use only half of the pattern for a bead such as a fan pull and peyote in the round up the sides - Pic 2.
Your bead doesn't have to be total round - Pic 3 - is the olive shaped wooden bead.

Beaded Bead - Peyote - Part 3

Step 12 - Add 1 black bead, pass through 1 black bead.
Add 1 red bead, pass through 1 black bead.
Add 1 black bead, pass through 1 copper bead.
Add 2 Copper beads, pass through 1 copper bead
repeat around. At end of row, add last 2 copper beads, pass through 1 copper bead and the 1st
black bead added in this row.
Step 13
add 1 red
pass through red
add 1 red
pass through 1 black
add 1 black
pass through 1 copper
add 1 copper
pass through 1 copper
add 1 black
repeat around
Pass only through the last bead.

Now, this is one half of the bead. Go back and repeat Parts 1, 2 and 3 to make the other half
and we will attach the two halves in the next post.

Tool Storage

Someone made this for me a few years back. It's great for keeping my tools organized and for traveling when we go to Fla. It can be rolled up or tri-folded, depending on where I want to store or carry it, and it ties together neatly with a ribbon. I though maybe some of the sewers here
would like to see it.

Beaded Bead - Peyote - Part 2

Step 7 Add 1 Black Bead
Pass through 1 Red Bead
Add 1 Red Bead pass through
1 red Bead
Repeat around

Step 8
Add 1 black
pass through red
add 1 black
pass through black
Add 1 copper, pass through
black
Repeat around
Notice the star pattern ? Keep tension medium, don't draw too tight, but you should notice
a slight cupping here.

Step 9 Add 2 black beads and go though next black bead. Add 1 copper, pass through copper, add 1 copper, pass through black - Add 2 black, repeat around.
Step 10 Add 1 black bead - pass through next black bead
Add 1 copper bead - pass through copper
Add 1 black Bead - pass through copper
Add 1 copper pass through black
repeat around ending with passing up
through 1st black bead added in this round
Step 11
add 1 copper
pass through copper
add 1 black
pass through 1 black
add 1 black
pass through copper
add copper
pass through black
repeat around
End by passing through last black bead and first copper bead
added in this round

Beaded Bead - Peyote - Pt 1

Just one of the many patterns and styles. This bead is very easy, but looks fantastic because of the different colors used. You can do it in a solid color also.
Again this is done in Delica beads. I have used #310 black, 105 dark red, and 40 copper here.
Keep tension medium.
Step 1 Begin with string 5 black and tying in a circle. Go through 1st bead strung.
Step 2 Add 1 copper bead, go through next black bead, add 1 copper, repeat around. When you add
last copper bead and go through black bead, also go through the first copper bead added to
jump up to the next round.
Step 3 Add 2 copper beads and go through next copper bead, repeat around. When you add the last
2 copper beads, come up through 1 copper bead added in this round.
Step 4 Add 1 copper bead, go through next bead, add 1 red bead, go through next, add 1 copper, repeat around. When you add the last red, go through the copper bead, and up through the 1st copper
bead added in this round.
Step 5 Add 1 red bead between each bead in this round. When this row is complete, come up through
first red bead added in this round
Step 6 Add 1 black bead - pass through 1 red bead, add 2 reds and pass through 1 red, add 1 black bead and pass through red, repeat around

Beaded Bead Tut Part 3

Continue rounds of herringbone stitch until you are about even with the shoulder of
the wooden or core bead. Now, we'll start to reduce.
Step 15 After you create the black herringbone stitch in this row, you'll come up in the silver
herringbone row and add only 1 silver bead.
Step 16 Go back down through the silver bead and come up in the copper herringbone stitch.
Create herringbone stitch.
Add only 1 silver bead in the next silver area, create black herringbone stitch.
Repeat around add only 1 silver bead in the silver rows and creating normal herringbone
stitch in the black and copper area.
Step 17 Start the next row with the black herringbone stitch, coming down through the black bead,
pass through the single silver bead, and up through the copper bead.
Add only 1 copper bead in the copper herringbone area, repeat around.
Only the black herringbone stitch is repeated in this row.
Do a little pushing and squeezing here to shaped the bead work around your core bead.
Step 18, create black herringbone stitch, add 1 black bead, pass through copper bead,
add 1 black bead, create black herringbone. Repeat around keep tension as tight as possible
and pushing beads together.
Step 19,
Pass back through
all the black beads in
the last round. Push
beads in tight together,
keep tension tight, you
can pass through the beads
a second time to bring them
in tight. To tie off, I do a couple half hitches and then work the thread back a few stitches before
cutting thread.