Dancing Cabs Necklace Beadwork Pattern Download

Description

Make this beautiful accessory using backstitch, tubular peyote stitch, brick-stitch edging, whipstitch, circular square stitch, and two-needle ladder stitch! Creatively join and embellish two bead-embroidered bezels with seed beads, fire-polished rounds, and two-hole bricks or rullas, then get your needles dancing as you work a two-needle technique for the intricate, coordinating chain.

Finished Size: 17&frac34″ (necklace); 1&frac12 &times 2&frac34″ (pendant)

Required Materials:

• light green Ceylon pearl size 15&deg seed beads
  

• color-lined olive rainbow size 11&deg cylinder beads
• silver-lined mint opal size 11&deg seed beads
• silver-lined light black diamond rainbow size 11&deg seed beads
• jet Picasso 4mm fire-polished rounds
• jet Picasso 6&times3mm 2-hole brick beads
• jet Picasso 2.5&times6mm rizo drop
• black cat’s eye 12mm round glass cabochon
• black cat’s eye 16mm round glass cabochon
• antiqued pewter 13mm 2-strand toggle clasp
• Smoke 6 lb braided beading thread
• Clear craft adhesive
• 1 &times 2″ piece of beading foundation
• 1 &times 2″ piece of mint green or black Ultrasuede
• Black permanent marker or fabric dye

Tools: Scissors; 4 size 10 beading needles
Technique: Backstitch; tubular peyote stitch; brick-stitch edging; whipstitch; circular square stitch; two-needle ladder stitch

Originally Published: Beadwork June/July 2014