Make a Loom Beaded Mini Amulet Bag

Beads

You'll need the following quantities of seed beads to complete the Amanda Pastel bag and its fringe:

• About 2.05 grams of size 11/0 Miyuki Delicas in opaque luster salmon (A)
• About 0.8 of opaque pumpkin (B)
• About 0.65 of opaque luster chartreuse (C)
• About 0.75 gram of opaque luster dark pewter (D)
• 26 Toho 3mm magatama beads in gold-lustered green tea (E)

Look for the Delica colors at Fire Mountain and the magatamas at bello modo.

Supplies

• Black 4-pound FireLine beading thread
• Size 10 beading needle
• Craft knife or children's craft scissors (for initially cutting the FireLine)
• Thread burner
• Other beadweaving supplies of your choice, such as bead dishes

• Click here to get the pattern.

Begin by creating the band of beadwork on your beading loom. In the example, I have completed the pattern and woven-in all of the thread tails.

• See how I used a no-warps method for my beadwork.

• Learn more about loom beading.

Begin by folding up both ends of the beadwork into a mini purse configuration. Exactly where you make folds is up to you. You can make a larger bag portion with a smaller front flap, or a smaller bag with a larger flap.

Pull and cut a few feet of beading thread, and thread the needle.

Weave the thread into the beadwork near the bottom row on the back of the bag, leaving a protruding two-inch tail.

Click on the image on the left to see the path I used to weave my thread (in blue). Because the cylinder beads in the pattern are so close together, I did not need to make any half-hitch knots along the way.

Bring the thread out through the last bead in the bottom row.

Pass the needle down beneath the warp thread that exits the bead that your thread is currently exiting. Then pass down beneath the opposing warp thread on the edge of the beadwork, and pull the thread gently taut.

Pass beneath the next two warp threads on the edge of the beadwork, in the same direction. Pull the thread gently taut again.

Continue this process, making each stitch in the same direction, to join this entire side of the bag. Stop when you reach the place where the top flap begins.

Pass through all of the beads in the top row on the front side of the bag, and pull the thread gently taut.

Stitch to join the other side of the back, working your way down the edge of the beadwork. Use the same technique you used on the first side of the bag.

When you reach the bottom, weave-in the thread and use a thread burner to trim it close to the beadwork.

Pull and cut another strand of FireLine that is about an arms' span long, or slightly shorter. Thread the needle and weave the thread into the front side of the bag the same way you wove-in to begin the previous thread.

Navigate to one of the bottom corners of the bag, and bring the needle out there.