BRICK STITCH / PEYOTE STITCH

Gumdrops in
my garden
Try these yummy new beads for
a simply delicious accessory
designed by Kerrie Slade

Use the new gumdrop beads

to make these sweet little Give brick
brick stitch flowers. Turn stitch flowers
dimension
them into charms or earrings, with gumdrop-
or connect them in a row to bead centers.

make a dainty bracelet.

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d materials
b c b
bracelet 7 in. (18 cm)
a • 8 7c x 10 mm gumdrop beads (green lumi)
0bead
mm gumdrop bead 7 x 10 mm gumdrop bead • 5 g 110 cylinder beads (Miyuki DB179,
10 mm gumdrop7bead
x 10 mm gumdrop bead transparent gray AB)
ylinder bead 110 cylinder bead a
gumdropbead
bead 0 • clasp
cylinder 11 cylinder bead
FIGURE 1
• beading thread
r bead • beading needles, #10–#12
7 x 10 mm gumdrop bead

110ecylinder bead e d pair of earrings

d e
b d • 2 7 x 10 mm gumdrop beads (pink lumi)
b e cd b e
d
b
a c a bc a • 1 g 110 cylinder beads (Miyuki DB179,
b c b c
e transparent gray AB)
d a c a
c
b • pair of earring findings
a
a c e
d
• beading thread
b c b • beading needles, #10–#12
a
FIGURE 2 a
c FIGURE 4
Find gumdrops at www.robins-beads.co.uk,
www.beadfx.com, www.agrainofsand.com,
a FIGURE 3 and www.beadstalkers.com.

Kerrie Slade is a bead-

c
work designer living in
Mansfield, England. She
d
has been beading for
b about 10 years and has
a had her work published in numerous
books and magazines around the
FIGURE 5 FIGURE 7
world. Kerrie now teaches beadwork
internationally and sells patterns via
her website, www.kerrieslade.co.uk.
c c FIGURE 6
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b b
d a stepbystep
b d
b
c a
d a a a
bBracelet
a Flowers
[1] On d4 ft. (1.2 m) of thread, pick up
b c b
a 7 x 10 mm gumdrop bead. Leaving
a a
a 10-in. (25 cm) tail, sew through the
bead again, creating a thread bridge
along one side of the bead (figure 1,
a–b). Sew through the gumdrop three
more times, arranging the loops so you
have two thread bridges on each side
of the bead (b–c).
[2] Begin working in brick stitch
c c up two
(Online Beading Basics): Pick
c110 cylinder beads,
c sew under a pair a
c of thread bridges on one side of the
d b
gumdrop, and sew back upd through
dthe second cylinder
d a b
(figure 2, a–b).
c
d [3] Pick up a cylinder, sew under the
thread bridge, and sew back up through
d b
a a www
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d To brush up on the Online
b b
b the cylinder just addeda (b–c). Repeat a
b
b
Beading Basics referenced in this
this stitch around
c the gumdrop
c until b story (plus other techniques!), go
c
you have 15 cylinders
b c . You should c
(c–d) to www.BeadAndButton.com/Basics.
have eight cylinders anchored to one set
of thread bridges and a
c seven anchored
to the other set of bridges. Sew down
through the first cylinder and up c Row 4: Following the thread path shown
through the last cylinder to close
d the in figure 5, add one cylinder over each
b
ring (d–e). This ring of cylinders will thread bridge in row 3.
be row 1 for the five individual petals. Row 5: Step up through the last cylinder
[4] To finish the first petal, work four added. Work three peyote stitches (Online
more rows as follows: Basics), and then sew down through the
Row 2: Work in brick stitch to attach edge beads of the petal and up through
two cylinders to the adjacent thread the next bead in row 1 (figure 6).
bridge and two cylinders to the follow- [5] Repeat step 4 to make a total of five
a bridge (figure 3).
ing thread petals. Note: After ending each remain-
a
Row 3: Work
a in brick stitch
a to attach ing petal, you will have to sew through
b b
two cylinders to the adjacent thread three additional beads in row 1 to get to
b
bridge, one cylinder to the next thread the starting point for the following petal
bridge,
b and two cylinders to the follow- (figure 7). Do not end the working
ing thread bridgea(figure 4). thread or tail.
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FIGURE 8

d a
b b
c a
c

d a
b b
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FIGURE 9 b

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FIGURE 10
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[6] Make as many flowers as needed
to fit around your wrist, keeping in
mind the size of the clasp.
Assembly
Because the flowers have five petals,
you will alternate between working
a two-petal join and a one-petal join.
[1] Work a two-petal join: Align two
flowers so that they are mirror images
of each other and so that two petals
on each flower are touching. With
a thread remaining from one of the
flowers, sew through the beadwork
to exit the flower at figure 8, point a.
Sew through the corresponding
cylinders on the two flowers twice
(a–b), and then sew through the
beadwork to exit the corresponding
cylinder on the next petal (b–c). Sew
through the corresponding cylinders
on the two petals (c–d), and end the
thread (Online Basics).
[2] Work a one-petal join: Align a new
flower opposite the previous join so
that a single petal from each flower
is touching. With a remaining thread,
sew through the new flower to exit
at figure 9, point a. Sew through the
corresponding cylinders in the two
petals, and then sew through the next
two cylinders (a–b). Repeat this stitch
twice (b–c), and end the thread.
[3] Repeat steps 1 and 2 to connect
the remaining petals.
[4] To attach the clasp, you will make
a five-cylinder loop at each end of the
bracelet. Depending upon whether
your bracelet has an even number or
odd number of flowers, your clasp
attachment will either be worked off of
two petals or a single petal. Referring
to figure 10, sew through an end flower,
exiting as shown for the appropriate
attachment (point a or point c). Pick up
five cylinders and half of the clasp, and
then complete the loop as shown (a–b
or c–d). Retrace the thread path several
times, and end the thread.
Earrings
Make two flowers. On each flower,
make a five-cylinder loop off of a single
petal as in figure 10, a–b. Retrace the
thread path several times, and end the
threads. Attach an earring finding. w

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