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 [...]

Flat, even-count peyote ( 1) Pick up an even number of beads. These beads become the first two rows. ( 2 ) To begin row 3, pick up a bead, and go through the second bead from the end.(As you stitch, every other bead drops down half a space to form row 1.) Pick up [...]