How to Attach Baubles to a Tubular Peyote
- 1). Draw out your design pattern and determine the locations for your baubles. When adding a charm or a bauble with a ring attachment, you can simply incorporate the bauble into your pattern, but continue adding the beads as you normally would. You do not have to leave a space in the beading pattern for a ring. Alternatively, you can weave your tube and then stitch baubles onto the outside, weaving the thread through the beads to hide it.
- 2). Lay out enough space in your design pattern to allow for larger beads, gems or baubles that you want to be a part of the woven work. You will have to draw in horizontal spacing as well as vertical spacing. If you are putting the larger baubles around the entire pattern, you will want to draw this in as well.
- 3). Weave the peyote stitch until you get to a larger bauble inset in a row. Make a return row as you would in flat peyote stitch. Just stitch back around like you would at the end of a flat row and make the return row back to the spaces where you want to set the bauble in. Make sure you are leaving the correct number of horizontal spaces called for in your design. When you reach the area where you are leaving the horizontal spaces, return back around your design back to the first area where you left the stitches open. You now have two vertical rows of peyote stitched beads and you have the horizontal spacing you left.
- 4). Check your design. If your bauble is four rows high, you will want to insert it now. If your bauble is six rows high, you will need to make another row before inserting the bauble. The number of rows high the bauble is will determine the level at which you will insert it. You will insert the bauble at the mid-point of the vertical row spacing. Thread through the bauble and then continue peyote stitching on the opposite side of your horizontal bead gap.
- 5). Continue to weave your beads in until you arrive at the point where you inserted your bauble. Make a turn as in flat peyote stitch and weave back to the opposite side. Make the correct number of rows to match your vertical spacing. When the proper number of rows have been added above your bauble, you will add beads to cross over the bauble when you get back to the insertion point. Check your pattern so that you know how many beads to add.
- 6). Weave your peyote stitch another round and include the added beads in your weaving. Repeat this process any time you wish to add another bauble. Continue making tubular peyote stitch until you need to add another bauble.
- 7). Add baubles all the way around by simply weaving them into a previous row, skipping enough of your small beads to make the large ones fit end to end. You will have this drawn in your plan so that you know how many to skip. Start your next row of small beads by threading the appropriate number of small beads between the large beads. Then continue tubular peyote stitch as normal.
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