PeMinlMatcchelerts RACHEL NELSON-SMITH'’S > BEAD RIFFS Jewelry Projects ey in Peyote ge & Right Angle Weave “An invaluable learning resource!” — Marcia DeCosterBeyond the Usual Tools Fora customized experience, round up the following. + Aneedle case (beaded, of course) + ‘Alighter ta melt away threads too short to srip + Atasklamp with a fullspectrum bulb + Acamfortable chair for extended beading sessions + Atinor other container for discarded items he excess thread, need envelopes, dandabandoned beadwork + Aviangular bed scoop for earup + Amini funnel for returning beads to tubes + Assmall dish for misshapen and stray beads + Iwo paits of chain-nose pliers, to work with jump rings and to force the needle through tight spaces + Flush wire cutters to remove extra loops ‘on multistrand clasps Techniques When fist stated beadweaving, I gath- ered inequlat beads, dental floss, wre cuttes, and a sewing needle, then made rudimentary stips of squate-sttched ‘beadwork. Thousands of beading hous later, ve learned. a great deal. | share that vith you bee. Double Knot ‘Most projects in this book bagin with a number of beads tea into ering witha simple double knot. Sting the beads and, Jeaving a 6-inch (15.2 cr} tal, overlap the tall and working tea to tie a simple ‘uethand knot. Te a secon! knot and {cave the tal to weave in ater. — Terminology and Convention Noort Ciceieue le Rou ls renee nee eit Peete iene tess Ns CE ettnes Biya Peer a ivy steps are color-coded in this o(der bee oeeancecncias rr + The beads being added are out- eae ey Breer eae ectay issNearly two decadesafter! made them, my first pieces a novice stitches. They prove that dental floss Is a strong beading materialt Peyote Stitch Abeadweaving technique wicely known from ancient to modern times, peyote stitch is extremely simoeand useful Inits basic form, oeyete stitch isle a sting tune et 140 beats oe minute—it sounds pretty gooc ands easy to Isten to. When we go beyord the oasis i's he satopronis: Chale Parcer shredding on histune "Yerdoird Suite“ at 220 beats per rrinute. You'l usualy workwith ssing'e thread, bute doubled thread is used wren a groject or sect cn reeds extra steength, ‘orwnen larger oeads, such 26 8"round seed beads, ate usec. ‘Alay aspect of peyoteis the rial beads sttung aways become rounds 1 and 2 when rourc 3 is added. The peyote basics presented here are -dhop stiches, add= ing one bead at a time but they may beapp ied tootnes drop variations wth smooth arctexturel-—as wel asincreased ang decreased—results, + Asmooth surface results from acd ing the same numberof aeadsin each opening as tre numoer ef beads two founds below, + Atexturalor changing surface results from adcinge different number of beads in an opening as che number of beads two rounds belowe Fer example, you might add ‘ore bead rather tran two in tre fourth round for a cecrease. For these octets | use the tubule evene court ane fle odd-coun: vavations, Fat cever-count i the basic form ofthe sien ard though its nat used 0: these ovo} ‘ects,| recommend an exploration *ycu haven't yet encourteredit Fat odd-count peyote stitch is used justonce, in Polka Dotsand Moondearns (gage 34), s0ts descrided trere. Tubular Even-Count Peyote Stitch The ovojectsin teis dock use enly the ‘ever-count we'sion ofthe stitch, ric speans that the seme numioer of stiche: sadded in each rourd and there’sa “step up’ at pe endof every round to ger into 2osition far the next rcure. figure 1 Thread a needle with 2 working ‘of thread, Runes 1 throug 4 are shown, infigure 1. Note: The 4-beed I-dropver- Sion with eniy two beads in €acn round is used mary times in tre projects. Tre cur- rent row must always be renforced before the steo up. o* the tude won't hold svape. Rounds 1 and 2Strng an even currber of beads—ié-bead ‘drop issrewn inthis example. Ties simple double «not ‘0 form acctcle and passthrough the first dee added ted lire). Round3 Sting one bead, skin 2 bead ane (pass throug? the next best: repeat m0 the dof the round. Pass through the frst tbead adced in this round again—thi is the steo up {blue lin Round. String one bead and aass through the next beec added in the previe 05 round, epest to the en ofthe ‘cure, Steo up through the ist bead accee in ths round Peoeat round # to dested ength RACH