Lat Updated Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Here's this week's list of the Top Ten Free Bead Patterns. Please feel free to print, download, share, and enjoy these free bead patterns with your beading group, friends, new beaders or anyone else that would enjoy them.
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1. Animal Patterns in Peyote Stitch
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A variety of animal patterns in flat, even count Peyote stitch. Perfect for making Amulet Bags and a wonderful project for a beginner to start with.
2. African Net Beaded Necklace
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Make this African Net Beaded Necklace using and easy -to-work variation on beaded netting and size 11/0 or Delica type cylinder seed beads, then make yourself a pair of African Net Beaded Earrings to match.
3. African Helix Beaded Cord Necklace
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A beautiful, complex-looking beaded corn necklace that is actualy much easier to bead than it first appears. Just follow the bead pattern and you'll have the process down in no time.
4. Beaded Herringbone Cord Necklace
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This free bead pattern make up the most beautiful, slinky and delightfully-touchable necklace cord ever, in almost no time at all once you get the basic hang of the stitch.
5. Spiral Rope Chain Beaded Bracelet
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Learn to make this beaded Spiral Rope Chain using seed beads and this free bead pattern. Spiral Rope Chain is very easy to make, is perfect for necklace, bracelet, or for an Amulet bag strap, too. Works best with traditional round seed beads, but you can create the Spiral Rope Chain with bugle beads as the core beads as long as you can balance the correct number of seed beads or cylinder beads to offset the bugle bead length. It looks great when beaded with larger beads such as a Size 8/0 True Cut bead, too.
6. Bricks and Strands Beaded Bracelet
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With two anchors of brick stitch triangles, you can string as many or as few strands as you'd like, even adding different size beads, charms, or even an occasional Daisy Chain flower here & there, just to mix things up a bit.
7. Criss Cross Beaded Bracelet Pattern
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A wonderful variation on bead netting to make a bracelet of larger beads surrounded by seed beads, that won't roll around on your wrist.
8. Bedouin Beaded Necklace - A Netting Variation
By "reverse engineering" this complex-looking Bedoin-style, a pattern and chart was established, so that it can be easily re-created using seed beads and a little time. Skill level for this Bedoiun-style beaded necklace is intermediate, and it is a bit time-comsuming, as the thread paths are a bit complex and if a section is not beaded correctly, you'll be doing the "rippit" stitch. It is a very workthwhile beading project, though, if you have the time and the patience to go slow and carefully follow the charting and firection for this interesting beadwork project.9. Easy Earrings Bead Patterns
Photo © Paula S. Morgan
Make these easy beaded earrings with leftover beads, headpins and a few other odds and ends and soon you'll have a new pair for each of your outfits!
10. Bead a Beaded Bead
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Using a woonder bead as a form, you can turn it into a custom beaded bead with the addition of a Peyote stitch strip and some beading at each edge.
