I made a couple of changes before I got the Peyote stitching underway this week. I started with that cool-looking gray lined amber colored bead, only to discover that the holes were so small I couldn't always get one thread through them, let along more than one pass. Not a good start for Peyote stitch!

So, I ended up using those beautiful bronze size 11/0 beads that I had first considered but chose not to use at first. I love the shade for bronze, but worried that the almost exact match between the color of the seed beads and the bronze section of the Raku beads was just too "matchy-matchy".

Oh well. It took me until just a couple of years ago to stop having to match my shoes and my handbag, so I guess some habits die harder than others. Besides, they really do look gorgeous and I will figure a way to use the other beads, too.

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As you can see from the picture above, the tension in my Peyote stitch has been tight enough to give the long piece some curve, so I'm thinking I'll make it a centerpiece of a slight bib-type necklace, with the straps done some other way. I'm going to take up the inside of the curve by doing Peyote stitch with smaller (size 15/0) beads to get a bit more curve to it. I'll post a picture of that next week, whether it works or not!

I'm still undecided as to what I'll do with the large donut-shaped Raku bead. I may center it and somehow weave it into the Peyote stitching in the "bib" section. I have a vision of s short fringe ending with the smaller "corn flake" (yes, that's what they are called) beads unless they get called into action elsewhere in the beading. They have such a light feel to me that I would enjoy them more as a sort of "dangling thing" instead of seeing them stitched into the body of the beading. Plus, they make a sweet tinkling sound when they strike each other.

The large textured tubes will probably be used in the straps somehow, I'm just not sure yet where or how. Maybe as a counter-weight in the back?

Stay tuned!

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