Beadwork Top Ten

Top Ten beadwork Articles

Here are the top ten articles for the Beadwork Site! These rankings are live and get reset at the beginning of each month, so check back often to see what your fellow visitors are most interested in!

1. Brick Stitch with 2 and 3 Bead Rows

Using basic brick stitch but changing the number of beads in a row really changes the look of the stitch. This article shows how with examples and graph paper.

2. Netted Handflower

A Vertical Netted Handflower bracelet

3. Grandmother's Garden Patterns

A set of free patterns based off the classic Grandmother´s Garden quilt pattern.

4. Graphing Patterns - Mandalas

How to graph a mandala like flat peyote pattern, including blank graph paper and several patterns.

5. Hexagonal Flat Peyote Worked In Rounds

Graph paper for Japanese cylinder beads and basic instructions for hexagonal peyote worked in the round.

6. Monochromatic Colors and Heart Pin Pattern

An explanation of monochromatic color schemes that includes a heart pin pattern, a tumbling block pattern and blank heart graphs

7. Converting peyote graphs to regular graphs

How to easily turn that favorite peyote pattern into something you can cross stitch or do on a loom

8. Easter Eggs and Bunnies Pattern

Free brick stitch patterns for Easter eggs and bunnies with blank egg graphs to decorate your own flat brick stitch eggs for Easter earrings.

9. Complementary Colors and Triangle Earrings

An overview of contrasting colors and how they really work well together in designs with triangle earrings graphed examples and black triangle earring graphs.

10. Peyote Alphabet Pattern

A free alphabet pattern by frequent request.