Making A Beaded Toggle & Loop: Page 1

Fig. 1: Place a stopper bead on a 1 to 1 1/2 yard length of beading thread & pick up 9 beads.

Fig. 2: Pick up 1 bead, skip one bead & needle through the next bead.

(The stopper bead can be removed after working two or three rows. It will not be shown past this point.)

Fig. 3: Continue to pick up 1 bead, skip the next bead & needle through the second bead, pulling the thread taut after adding each bead.

Continue through the end of the row, needling through the last two beads as shown.

Fig. 4: Starting at the black arrow & following the thread path rom black through red, pick up the last bead of row three & needle through the beads in a figure eight pattern.

The thread is now in position to add the beads for row four.

Fig. 5: Add the beads for row four as shown.

Fig. 6: Add the beads for row five, needling through the last beads of rows four & three at the end of the row.

Then following the directions for figure 4, needle through the beads in a figure eight pattern to position the thread to add row six.

Fig. 7: Add the beads for row six. Your finished peyote strip should look like figure 7.

Fig. 8: Roll the piece to bring the long edges together. Needle through the first bead of row one, then the first bead of row six.

Continue needling through the beads of rows one & six, finishing by needling through the end bead of row five & through the center space of what is now a peyote tube.

Fig. 9: This shows the thread path for 'zipping up the seam'. Just a different view of the directions in figure 8.

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