- Miyiki seed beads 15/0 - #4202 Duracoat gold. I believe I got this tube from Tamara Scott, https://www.etsy.com/shop/tamarascottdesigns (from USA), but I bought duracoat from many other sellers too.
- Chinese round 3mm in two colors – Opaque green and dark blue. I got this from local shop at China Town in Bangkok, Thailand. You can use other beads here, round beads or fire polished round should do fine.
My peyote strip is odd count, 7 beads wide and 50 rows in length. It will give a straight line when you do the embellishment on top.
But If you make even count peyote, it will give you a little tilt embellishment. If you don't mind about that, you can use even count peyote for easy beading. No problem at all.
Cut the thread around two arms. I start my odd count strip with one light green, five matte green and two light green delicas.
Pass back through matte green. Then, you can peyote all the way until you get 50 rows. Zip up two ends together. Exit your thread at any light green delica.
I spread the thin layer of glue on the carrier bead. Then, carefully slip the carrier bead inside the peyote strip. Roll the strip until your thread is at the corner.
Pick up three 15/0s. Pass through the adjacent light green delica and the next matte green delica.
Pick up 15/0, round bead 3mm and 15/0. Then, pass through the matching matte green delica across the strip and light green delica.
Pick up three 15/0s. Pass through the adjacent light green delica to create the picot.
Then, pass through the adjacent light green delica.
Pick up 15/0, round bead 3mm and 15/0. Pass through the matching matte green delica across the strip and light green delica.
Pick up three 15/0s and pass through the adjacent light green delica to make a picot.
Now, you can repeat the same way and change the round bead 3mm as you go.
You can connect two components any way you like. This is how I did. In the photo, you can see that I haven't done the embellishment for the second component yet. They will share the same connecting beads.
At the second component, exit at the light green delica at the edge and corner. Pick up three 15/0s. Pass through the adjacent light green delica and matte green delica.
Pick up 15/0. Pass through round bead 3mm from the first component. Then, pick up 15/0. Pass through matte green delica and light green delica at the edge.
Continue through matte green delica, 15/0, round bead 3mm, 15/0, matte green delica and light green delica.
Actually, you can weave through your peyote strip to get to the other side but I prefer to go the connecting beads one more time. It's always good to reinforce your thread path at the connecting point.
You should exit at light green delica now (red arrow). Pick up pearl 3mm and pass through the matching light green delica at the other component (blue arrow).
Then, pass through matte green delica, 15/0, round bead 3mm, 15/0, matte green delica and light green delica at the edge.
Pick up pearl 3mm. Pass through the matching light green delica at the second component.
The connection is done now. But I suggest you to reinforce your thread path for the two pearls here again.
My bracelet used seven components. The length is around 6.5 inches without clasp.
For the clasp part, I just made simple seed beads loop using seven 15/0s and used jumpring and magnetic clasp.
Thank you, such a nice idea! Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks! I'm glad you like the tutorial. Happy beading!
This is really beautiful! The segments caught my eye as well as the design and color. Thanks for giving me another project to work on.
Glad you like it. Happy beading!
Excellent and beautiful. Your instructions are very well written. This has gives me some ideas for my carriers. Thinking of black/copper, black/bronze and black/gold. Then doing 1, 2 together, 3 together, then 2 then 1 for necklace. Thank you again for the inspiration.
Very cute! Thank you for the tute!