Here comes Santa Claus and his merry rider just in time to deliver Christmas cheer. Accented with lots of shiny tree trims, this jolly design can be displayed as a wall hanging or as a decoration for your front door.

Size: 131/2″w x 17%”h Supplies: Worsted weight yarn (refer to color key), two 101/2″ X 131/2″ sheets of 7 mesh plastic canvas, #16 tapestry needle, metallic silver ribbon , 28 – 6mm beads, one 5/8″ w star sequin, sewing needle, thread, sawtooth hanger, and clear-drying craft glue Stitches Used: Backstitch, French Knot, Gobelin Stitch, Overcast Stitch, Tent Stitch, and Turkey Loop
Instructions: Follow charts and use required stitches to work Santa pieces, leaving shaded areas unworked. Match and work~stitches in shaded areas through two thicknesses to join Upper Santa to Lower Santa. Refer to photo to sew beads to tree. Match to glue star sequin to top of tree. For hanger, sew sawtooth hanger to wrong side of stitched piece.

Designed by: Jack Peatman for LuvLee

With a deeply colored stone as its centerpiece, this necklace suggests the riches of a mysterious woman.
A peyote-stitched bezel—worked with seed beads that decrease in size to hold the stone in place—is held
aloft with lacy layers of netting.

Design By: G l e n d a P a y s a n o

M a t e r i a l s
40mm round dolomite marble cabochon
Size 10° pale purple matte seed beads
Size 11° purple seed beads in 5 assorted finishes and shades
(dark silver-lined, dark transparent, medium frosted, pale
matte, and pale pearl finish)
Size 15° dark purple hex-cut seed beads
Size 15° pale purple seed beads
16 size 8° medium purple seed beads
8 lilac 4mm fire-polished rounds
4 dark purple 6mm fire-polished rounds
8 silver 5mm daisy spacers
2 crimp tubes
Clasp
Size D Nymo beading thread
20″ of .012 beading wire
To o l s
Size 12 beading needle
Scissors
Wire cutters
Crimping pliers
Figure 1 Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Techniques

Tubular peyote stitch, brick-stitch netting, stringing, crimping Finished Size 16″

BEZEL
Step 1: Use 4′ of thread with a needle on each end to work tubular peyote stitch. Use one needle to work the front of the bezel and the other to work the back.
Rounds 1 and 2: String 1 size 10° (Round 1) and 1 size 11°
(Round 2) thirty-eight times, or use enough beads to reach around the circumference of the cabochon. Pass
through the first bead again to form a circle, leaving a 2′ tail.
Round 3, front: String 1 size 11° and pass through the next size 10°; repeat around. Step up by passing through the first bead of this round (Figure 1).
Rounds 2 and 3, back: Use the tail thread to repeat Round 3 on the other side of the size 10°s (Figure 2).
Rounds 4 and 5, front: Work 1 size 11° in each stitch; step up at the end of each round. Slip the cabochon inside the beadwork and check for fit. The rows for the back should come to the edge of the stone and the rows in the front should lie just above the curve of the stone (Figure 3).
Round 4, back: Work 1 size 11° in each stitch; step up at the end of each round.
Round 6, front: Work 1 size 15° hex in each stitch, pulling the thread tight to cinch the tube around the stone.
Rounds 5–9 back: Work 1 size 15° in each stitch, pulling tight to cinch the tube (Figure 4). Weave the tails through several beads to secure, then trim close to the work.
BASE STRIP
Step 2: Foundation row. Use 4′ of thread to begin a strip of 1- and 2-drop peyote stitch. The single beads along the top are a mix of size 11°s (A), and the 2-bead stacks along the bottom are dark purple size 11°s (B).
Start: String 1A and 4B. Pass back through the A, leaving a 10″ tail (Figure 5). Stitch 1: String 1A and pass down through the last 2-bead stack (Figure 6). Stitch 2: String 2B and pass up through the last A (Figure 7).
Repeat Stitches 1 and 2 for about 9″ (Figure 8).
Step 3: Picot. Flip the beadwork over to work a picot edge along the 2-bead edge of the foundation row from left to right. Start: String 1 dark purple (B), 1 light purple (C), 1 dark purple (B). Pass under the thread between the second and third 2-bead stack, then back through the last bead strung (Figure 9). Stitch: String 1C and 1B. Pass under the next thread, between the third and fourth stacks, then back through the last bead (Figure 10).
Continue adding 2 beads at a time and passing under the thread between the stacks and back through the last
bead (Figure 11). Leave the thread tail at the end.
NETTING
Step 4: Attach the cabochon bezel at the center of the foundation row (Figure 12). Do not worry about the exact placement—the bezel may be centered at each end by the tail threads in Step 10. Start: Using 4′ of thread, pass through a size 10° of the bezel leaving a 2′ tail. Working from left to right, *string 3B
and pass up through an edge bead of the foundation row, then down through the next bead. Pass back
through the last 3B and through the next size 10° of the bezel.
Stitch 2: Repeat once from *.
Stitches 3 and 4: String 2B and pass up through the last edge bead and down through the next bead; pass back through the last 2B and through the next size 10° of the bezel.
Stitches 5 and 6: Repeat Stitch 2, stringing 3B for each stitch. Pass each tail thread through 1 size 11° and 1 size 10° to begin netting.
Step 5: Netting Row 1. Use one of the tail threads from Step 4 to work the first row of brick-stitch netting along the foundation strip (Figure 13). Start: String 5C and 2B; pass under the fourth loop from
the last connecting stitch along the foundation row and back through the last 2B. Stitch 1: String 2B; pass under the next loop and back through the last 2B. Stitch 2: String 3C and 2B; pass under the next loop and
back through the last 2B. Stitch 3: String 2B; pass under the next loop and back through the last 2B. Stitch 4: String 7C and 2B; pass under the fourth loop and back through the last 2B. Repeat Stitches 1–4 four times, then repeat Stitches 1–3 at the end of the row. Repeat entire sequence using the thread on the other side of the cabochon.

Step 6: Netting Row 2. Secure a new thread at one end of the foundation strip, exiting the last 2B of the previous row.
Start: String 3B, 1 frosty purple (D), and 2B; pass through the first C of the previous row and back through the last 2B.
Stitch 1: String 3D and 2B; pass through the third C of the previous row and back through the last 2B.
Stitch 2: String 3B; pass under the loop between the next two stitches of the previous row and back through the last 3B.
Stitch 3: String 11D and 3B; pass under the loop between the next two stitches of the previous row and back
through the last 3B.
Stitch 4: String 2B; pass through the first C of the next stitch of the previous row and back through the last 2B. Repeat Stitches 1–4 four times, then repeat Stitches
1 and 2. String 7D and pass through the second and third size 10°s along the edge of the bezel.
Step 7: Netting Row 3. String 12 silver-lined dark purple (E); pass under the first loop of the previous row and back through the last 3E. Repeat as in Row 2, stringing 13E in place of the 11D.
Step 8: Netting Row 4: Repeat Row 2, using 16 matte opaque light purple in place of the 11D. String 11 beads to attach the last loop to the bezel at the end of the row.
Step 9: Netting Row 5. Repeat Row 3, stringing 18B to begin and 17B in place of the 11D.

Step 10: Adjust the foundation strip if necessary so that each end is the same length; the accent beads and clasp will add 31⁄2″ to each end of the strip. Finish the tail threads by passing through the foundation strip and tying knots between bead; trim close to the work.
Step 11: Stringing. Cut 10″ of wire and pass through the last two beads of the foundation strip. *String 5B on each end of the wire. Hold both ends evenly together to string 1 size 8°, one 4mm, 1 size 8°, 1 spacer, one 7mm, 1 spacer, 1 size 8°, one 4mm, and 1 size 8°. Repeat from * once. Use both ends to string 1 crimp tube, then pass each end in opposite directions through one half of the
clasp; pass back through the tube, snug the beads, and crimp. Repeat on the other end of the strip.

Glenda Paysano has been beading for seven years, mostly making jewelry to sell at a local farmer’s market every summer. She loves teaching off-loom beading techniques at her online bead club, Beadchat
(http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/Beadchat). Contact Glenda at glendanow2000@yahoo.com.

by Nealay Patel

materials
• 5g seed beads, size 110, hex cut
main color (MC)
• 1g seed beads, size 110, (MC)
• 1g seed beads, size 110, accent color (AC)
• 1g seed beads, size 60, (AC)
• Nymo D, conditioned with Thread Heaven,
color to match beads
• 2 3-hole spacer bars
• 2 bead tips
• 2 soldered jump rings
• 3-in. (76mm) small link chain
• 6mm heart or crystal
• S-hook or lobster claw clasp
• 3mm crystal
• head pin
• tape
Tools: chainnose pliers, wire cutters

stepbystep
Make this simple but lovely necklace with three medallions joined by seed bead strands. The beaded
portion of the necklace measures 12 in. (.3m). The clasp and chain add another 31⁄2 in. (89mm) to the
finished length.
medallions

• 1) Start with 24 in. (.6m) of conditioned Nymo and leave a5-in. (.13m) tail. String a main color (MC) 110 seed bead, a 60 seed, 2MC, an accent color (AC)110, 2MC, and a 60. Sew through the first bead strung in the opposite direction as before (photo a).  2) String 1MC, a 60, 2MC, 1AC, and 2MC. Go through the last 60 strung in step 1 (photo b). Then go through the first MC strung in this step (photo c). Repeat three more times for a total of five loops (photo d).

• 3) Sew through the first AC and 60 strung in step 1. String 2MC, an AC, and 2MC. Go through the last 60 and MC strung in step 2 (photo e) to create the top of the sixth loop. Tie the tail and working thread in a surgeon’s knot (see “Basics”). Weave it through several beads, tie a half-hitch knot (see “Basics”), dot  it with glue, and then trim the tail close to the beads.

• 4) Go back through the first MC and 60 strung in step 1 (photo f). Moving clockwise, continue through 2MC andthe AC at the top of the loop.

• 5) String 2MC, a 60, and 2MC. Go through the AC at the top of the next loop (photo g). Repeat five times. Sew through the first AC exited in step 4 to complete the medallion. Weave the tail through several beads and tie a half hitch. Glue the knot, but do not cut off the thread.

• 6) Repeat steps 1-5 to make two more of the medallions. outer strands To string the necklace, use hex-cut 110 seed beads.

• 1) String an AC to the middle of 1 yd. (.9m) of conditioned thread. Go through it again in the same direction to make a stop bead (which will be removed later). Starting at figure 1, point a sew through the top right 60 of a medallion. Pull the thread through the 60 until the stop bead rests against it. String five hex-cut seeds and an AC, twice. Then string five hex.

• 2) Sew through a 60 on the edge of another medallion. Then go through two hex, an AC, and two hex (figure 1, b-c).

• 3) Go through the next 60. String ten hex and an AC (figure 2, a-b). Repeat this sequence seven times. To make a longer necklace, string more sets of beads. Be sure to add the same number of beads to all strands on both sides of the necklace.

• 4) Go through the top hole on one of the three-hole spacer bars. String six hex, a bead tip with the hook facing out, and a hex (photo h). Wrap the thread with tape to hold it temporarily.

5) To string the bottom strand, start at figure 3, a and repeat steps 1-4, but go through the bottom hole of the spacer.
6) To make the other side, remove the stop bead from the top strand. Attach a needle and weave to the top left 60 (figure
4, a-b). Repeat steps 1-5.

central strand

• 1) Using the thread tail remaining on the right medallion, weave over to figure 5, a. Go through the 60. String three hex, an AC, five hex, an AC, and three hex (a-b). Sew through the corresponding 60 on the center medallion.

• 2) Go through all the beads just strung. Start at point c and sew through the 60 and two hex. Weave the tail through several beads, knot, glue, and trim.

• 3) Start with 24 in. of conditioned thread and leave a 6-in. tail. String five hex and an AC. Repeat seven more times. End with three hex. Sew through the 60 on the right medallion (figure 6, a-b). Go back through the beads just strung (b-c).

• 4) Sew through the middle hole on the spacer. String five hex, and go through the bead tip. Wrap with tape.

• 5) Repeat steps 1-4 to complete the other end of the necklace.

swags
Work the bottom two swags with a continuous thread.

• 1) String a stop bead 6-in. from the end of 24 in. of conditioned thread. Sew through the 60 (figure 7, a) and pull the thread through until the stop bead rests against the 60. String a hex, an AC, five hex, an AC, four hex, an AC, four hex, an AC, six hex, an AC, and three hex. String an AC, then reverse the sequence just strung. Go through the corresponding 60 on the opposite medallion (a-b).

• 2) Sew through two hex (b-c) and tie a half-hitch knot. Go back through the hex beads and exit the 60.

• 3) String 10AC and a hex. Repeat twice. Then string 6AC. To make the dangle, string a hex, 7AC, a hex, a 6mm heart, and 1AC (d-e). Skip the AC and sew back through the beads to point d. String the second side of the swag by reversing the sequence strung before the dangle. Sew through the 60 back to point a.

• 4) Remove the stop bead and tie the thread ends with a surgeon’s knot. Glue the knot. Weave each of the tails through several beads, then trim.

closure
Use a seed bead inside each bead tip to secure the strands’ ends.

• 1) Carefully remove the tape from the strands at one end of the necklace. Arrange them so the five-bead strand sits inside the two six-bead strands (photo i). Slide an 110 bead over two of the threads (photo j). Use both sets of threads to tie two surgeon’s knots. Dot with glue. Trim the tails when dry.

• 2) Use chainnose pliers to close the bead tip (photo k). Slide a soldered jump ring and an S-hook or lobster claw clasp into the hook of the bead tip. Use chainnose pliers to close the hook.

• 4) Repeat on the other end of the necklace, sliding on a 3-in. (76mm) piece of chain instead of the clasp.

• 5) To make the dangle at the end of the chain, slide a hex, a 3mm crystal or bead, and a hex on a head pin. Begin a wrapped loop, (see “Basics”). Slide the end loop of chain into the wrapped loop and close the loop. Photo l shows the completed clasp.

Contact Nealay in care of Bead&Button.