Bead & Button – October 2019

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26 October 2019

Wrap your wrist in this lightweight and flexible bracelet

featuring crescent beads and pearls.

How to pick up the crescent beads: With the

tips pointing down toward your bead mat, sew

through the left hole (LH) or the right hole (RH),

going from front to back or back to front, per

the instructions.

COMPONENTS

1) On 1 yd. (.9 m) of thread, pick up a crescent

bead (LH, front to back), an 11 0 cylinder bead,

two MiniDuo beads, a cylinder, a crescent

(LH, front to back), and an 11 0 seed bead twice.

Leaving a 6-in. (15 cm) tail, retrace the thread

path a couple of times (not shown in the figure

for clarity), to form a ring (figure 1, a–b).

Continue through the next three beads to exit

the first MiniDuo, and sew through the open

hole of the same MiniDuo (b–c).

2) Pick up a 4 mm pearl, and sew through the

open hole of the next crescent (figure 2, a–b).

Pick up two 11 0 s, and sew through the following

110 (b–c). Pick up two 11 0 s, and sew through

the open hole of the next crescent (c–d). Pick

up a 4 mm pearl, and sew through the open

hole of the following MiniDuo (d–e). Pick up an

110 , and sew through the open hole of the next

MiniDuo (e–f). Repeat these stitches to complete

the round (f–g), and sew through the following

4 mm pearl and outer hole of the crescent (g–h).

3) Pick up two 11 0 s, two crescents (LH, back to

front), and two 11 0 s, and sew through the outer

hole of the next crescent (figure 3, a–b). Pick

up six color B 15 0 seed beads, an 8 0 seed bead,

and six Bs, and sew through the outer hole of

the following crescent (b–c), making sure that

the Bs are positioned above the 4 mm pearls.

Pick up two 11 0 s, two crescents (RH, front to

back), and two 11 0 s, and sew through the outer

hole of the next crescent (c–d). Pick up six Bs,

and sew through the 8 0 seed bead (d–e). Pick

up six Bs, and sew through the outer hole of the

following crescent (e–f), the next two 11 0 s, and

the following two crescents (f–g). End the tail

but not the working thread.

4) Repeats steps 1–3 to make two more

components.

JOINING COMPONENTS

1) With the working thread exiting two cres-

cents, pick up a color A 15 0 seed bead, an 11 0 ,

and an A, and sew through the open holes of

the same two crescents your thread is exiting

(figure 4, a–b). Pick up an A, an 11 0 , and

an A, and continue through the inside hole

of the same two crescents (b–c). Sew through

the next A, 11 0 , A, and two crescents (c–d).

2) Pick up three As, a 4 mm pearl, and three

As, and sew through the same hole of the two

crescents your thread is exiting (figure 5, a–b).

Continue through the following three As and

4 mm pearl (b–c), making sure the 4 mm pearl

is positioned on top of the crescent tips.

3) Position another component, with the

working thread on the right side, to the right

of the one you are working on. With the work-

ing thread from the first component, pick up

three As, and sew through the open holes of the

adjacent two crescents on the new component

(figure 6, a–b). Pick up three As, and sew

through the 4 mm pearl your thread exited

at the start of this step (b–c). Continue through

the following three As and two crescents (c–d),

making sure the 4 mm pearl is positioned on

top of the tips of the crescents.

4) Work as in step 1 to add an A, 11 0 , and A

to each side of the crescents (d–e).

5) Sew through the next six edge beads, sewing

toward the pearl (figure 7, a–b). Pick up an

110 seed bead, and sew through the following 21

FIGURE 1

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