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I found directions for and learned a really great technique for speed beading flat peyote. (Drawback: When you screw up, it’s a lot more complicated to backtrack.) I don’t do that much straight-out flat peyote, except for these folded pendants I make. The speed beading technique was AWESOME for this.

So I started working on a pendant into which I could incorporate my curled peyote from Day 5.  To go along with the curly piece, I thought I’d add a ruffled edge to each flat piece.

The first photo shows the flat peyote. The second shows what it looks like when I’ve twisted and folded it and also the curly piece, now embellished with a pink freshwater pearl. The third photo shows the nearly complete pendant. I’ve added a ruffled edge along the front of the curved piece, using 15/0 beads. I still need to weave in the thread ends and make a beaded-tube bail.

This is beadweaving around a little piece of agate. The stone is about 1.25″ long. I kinda like where this is going, although I want to get it to a point where it looks more organic rather than “strips of beads holding a stone.” It’s gettin’ there.

Getting it to this point was a nightmare, however. I could not think of an easy way to secure the base to get started. I used some pieces of scotch tape, which was OK, not great. I have a really cool idea about adapting this to another object, but if I can’t come up with a better method for starting the piece, I’ll go insane before I get anywhere with it.

Suggestions welcome!

not knowing what I’m doing!  But– I’m willing to learn!