Two sweet, berrylike half-drilled beads are topped with easy-to-make pearl-studded tubular-peyote ruffled caps. A matching seed-bead bail, peyote-stitched spacers, and clasp balance the stitched elements with the strung pearls.
Required Materials: Seed beads, seed pearls, keishi pearls, potato pearls, round pearls, ovals, crimp tubes/covers, wire, beading wire, beading thread, thread conditioner, hypo cement. See project for complete list.
Tools Needed: Beading needles, scissors, crimping pliers, wire cutters, round-nose pliers, flat-nose pliers. See project for complete list.
Techniques Used: Tubular and flat circular peyote stitch, stringing, crimping, wireworking
Finished Size: 20"
Originally Published: Beadwork, October/November 2008