Peyote


You can sew bands like this with beads.
Bands
Here you can see how to sew a band
  1. The yellow one shows how to sew a band with an even amount of rows. To the right you can see the edges.
  2. If you want to make a band with an odd amount of rows, you have to sew around the row before on one of the edges. Look at the picture and you can see how to do it.
    You can see it on the blue band.
When you have learned how to sew band, you can sew bands together making great things.

Peyote

Table mat.
Table mat

Here you can see a basket, made of some bands sewed together
At first I made the broad band that should be the sides of the basket. I sewed it together to a big ring, so the pattern became nice.
When that was done, I could mesure how big the bottom should be.
The sides and the bottom was sewn together.
then I made the handle and sewed it on the sides.
To make the handle look better, I tapet masking tae on the inside.
Basket

A broad band can look great around a book.
Around a book

There are so many possibilities making nice things of fuse beads (or other beads).
Many items
                        Here is pattern and an emty sheet if you want to make your own pattern.
mönster
Emty pattern for peyote