Kimberley makes these peyote-stitch beaded beads with small wooden craft spools, which seem tailor-made for the precise fit of Delica beads. If bright colors aren't your thing, try naturals, pastels, or the ever-graphic black and white. Experiment with different sizes of spools or other shapes. For complete step-by-step instructions to make Kimberley Price's Rounds of Color necklace, see the November/December 2006 issue of Step by Step Beads.

This gorgeously geometric peyote-stitched bag was inspired by the quilts of Loretta Pettway, one of the talented African-American women who have put the Gee's Bend community of rural Alabama on the map with their bold and distinctive quilts. Written instructions for this bag may be found in the June/July 2005 issue of Beadwork. Read more about these amazing women and find inspiration for your own bag in The Quilts of Gee's Bend by John Beardsley, et al. (Tinwood Books, 2002).

Enhance otherwise ordinary necklaces with pendants suspended by extraordinary peyote-stitched bails. The charm of peyote bails is its flexibility--by making the bail large enough to fit over the beads of a necklace, you can slide it on or off, or even on to a different necklace. These patterns are from the editors of Beadwork magazine.

Thisis the word chart for Carol Goldman’s "Chinese Lattice Necklace", a loomworking project, featured on page 58 in the February/March 2006 issue of Beadwork.

Want to create your own beaded designs in brick stitch or peyote stitch? Use this handy graph paper to plan out your project.

Want to create your own beaded designs in square stitch or by beading on a loom? Use this handy graph paper to plan out your project.