Right-Angle Weave Beaded Waffle Pendant

Beads:

• 30 size 11/0 Miyuki round seed beads in crystal color-lined beige; 11-0401 (A)
• 31 4mm x 7mm Czech fire polished rondelles in Picasso green turquoise (B)
• 32 size 11/0 Miyuki round seed beads in opaque light cream; 11-0804 (C)
• 0.85 grams of size 15/0 Miyuki round seed beads in opaque luster light cream; 15-9902 (D)

Beading Supplies:

• Size D beading thread in cream
• Size B beading thread in cream
• A size 10 beading needle
• A size 12 beadig needle
• Beading scissors
• Optional supplies of your choice, such as a thread burner, thread conditioner, and bead dishes

After preparing your size 10 needle and a length of size D thread, follow the pattern on the left to stitch four unit columns and three unit rows of flat right angle weave. (Click on the image for a larger view.)

Notice that each side of every right-angle weave unit contains three beads: one size 11/0 bead, one rondelle, and another size 11/0 bead.

Tip: If you begin at the bottom left corner of the pattern and stitch the first unit in a clockwise direction, you'll begin by picking up the following beads, in this order: 1A, 1B, 1A, 1C, 1B, 1C, 1A, 1B, 1A, 1C, 1B, 1C.

When you finish stitching the entire rectangle, weave-in and end the thread.

Prepare a length of size B beading thread, and thread the size 12 beading needle. Using all D beads, stitch 25 columns and nine rows of flat, odd-count peyote stitch. Do not end the thread.

The graph on the left depicts the completed swatch of peyote beadwork.

Use the same thread to zip-up the top and bottom ends of the peyote stitch swatch. This pulls the flat beadwork into a tube that will serve as a pendant bail. When you finish, make a couple of half-hitch knots over existing thread to preserve the thread tension, but do not end the thread just yet.

Weave through the beadwork in the bail to reverse the direction of the thread, and bring the needle out through a bead in what was the second column of flat peyote stitch (before you zipped it up), as shown in the diagram on the left. (Please click for a larger view.)

Pick up 3D, and pass through all three beads in the top of the upper-left unit of right-angle weave beadwork. Pull the thread taut, and pick up 2D. Pass into a bead in what was the sixth column of flat peyote stitch, in the opposite direction, as shown.

Pull the thread taut again, and then weave through the beadwork to reverse direction.

Weave through the beadwork toward the other end of the bail, reverse direction again, and bring the needle out of the sixth from last column of peyote stitch. Pick up 2D, and pass through the top of the upper right right-angle weave unit. Pick up 3D, and pass into the sixth from last column of peyote stitch, going in the opposite direction.

Weave-in to end the thread and complete the pendant.

The tube bail is the perfect size for stringing onto 2mm round cord. I used dark brown Greek leather cord, finished with coil ends and a lobster clasp.