Patchwork Autumn

Start an even-count 2-drop peyote stitch sample by stringing 12 seed beads from the Artbeads Honeybee Meadow Designer Blend onto your thread. Use two beads of one color, two beads of another color, and so on for the first row. These beads will become the first two rows of your focal. To learn how to create an even-count 2-drop peyote stitch, take a look at our video tutorial. Continue the 2-drop peyote stitch until the focal is 10 rows long. Match the color pattern of the first rows for the next two to create squares of color. Then, you will switch up the colors for the next rows to create a patchwork look.

2-Drop Peyote Stitch Video Tutorial

Add a Picot edge to the first four beads on one side edge of the focal using TOHO 15/0 bead rounds in opaque shiny jet black. When you reach the set of two seed beads at the center of the edge, add two 15/0 black seed beads, a green seed bead from the blend, a Vintaj Artisan Copper pineapple bead, and a green and black bead from the blend. Loop your thread around the loop of the Vintaj Artisan Copper prairie leaf charm a few times, then bring your thread back down through the black and green bead, the pineapple bead, and the green seed bead. Add two 15/0 black seed beads and go down through the next bead in the center set of two. Repeat the basic picot edge for the rest of the edge. Secure and trim your thread.

Picot Edge Tutorial
Bead Weaving Basics: Starting, Adding, and Ending Thread

Add your 2-drop peyote stitch focal into the Alacarte 24mm antique copper-plated brass crimp end tube so that the picot edge dangles. In other words, you are putting the focal in sideways to how you stitched it. You may have to add a bead to the tube ends to make sure the focal doesn't move. Crimp the end tube down around the beads (It will cover the last two beads in each row) and fold the tabs closed with chain nose pliers.

Add your pendant to the center of a two-foot length of 4x2.5mm diamond cut antique copper-plated brass crimped oval cable chain using a 5.5mm antique copper-plated 21 gauge open jump ring. Attach a 9x5mm antique copper-plated trigger clasp to one end of the chain using a 5.5mm jump ring. Attach another 5.5mm jump ring to the other end of the chain.

Opening and Closing Jump Rings Video

List of Components
Artbeads Honeybee Meadow Designer Blend, TOHO 11/0 Round Seed Beads (ADB0496, qty 1)
Alacarte 24mm Antique Copper-Plated Brass Crimp End Tube (FIND-1775, qty 1)
Vintaj Artisan Copper Pineapple Bead (BEAD-4215, qty 1)
Vintaj Artisan Copper Prairie Leaf Charm (CHARM-4216, qty 1)
4 x 2.5mm Diamond Cut Antique Copper-Plated Brass Crimped Oval Cable Chain By the Foot (BTF-1082, qty 2)
9x5mm Antique Copper-Plated Trigger Clasp (BCA-CL02, qty 1)
5.5mm Antique Copper-Plated 21 Gauge Open Jump Ring (BCA-OJR06-A, qty 3)
TOHO Bead Round 15/0 Opaque Shiny Jet Black (TBRD15-49, qty 1)