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Sweetheart Pendant

Beaded with Cubic Right Angle Weave

by Gwen Fisher

The Sweetheart Pendant is woven with beaded cubic


right angle weave and its variations. This tutorial does
not contain complete step-by-step instructions for
weaving these hearts. Instead, This tutorial is designed
for experienced beaders, and it includes charts like
those found on my blog at http://gwenbeads.blogspot. Large Sweetheart (45 mm across)
com/2014/04/notation-for-cubic-right-angle-weave.html. 4 mm bicone or round beads, 28 beads
This tutorial assumes you already how to do basic cubic Size 8° seed beads, two colors, 56 & 100
right angle weave and know how to connect two ends to Size 11° seed beads,168 beads
make a continuous strip. If you don’t, check out the links at Nymo size D, or Fireline 6 lb
my blog post above to learn how. Beading needle, size 10 or 11

Materials lists are included for Sweetheart Pendants in two Small Sweetheart (33 mm across)
sizes. Consider trying the larger size first so you won’t have 3 mm bicone or round beads, 28 beads
to worry about being very efficient and possibly filling your Size 11° seed beads, two colors, 56 & 100
bead holes with thread. As a beaded bead, the Sweetheart Size 15° seed beads, 168 beads
Pendant has a hole through its center, plus many 1 mm Nymo size B or D, or Fireline 4 or 6 lb
holes, that you can string onto fine chain or cord. Beading needle, size 11 or 12

Copyright 2014 by Gwen Fisher. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this
document, or any portion thereof. See http://www.beadinfinitum.com/Copyright_Statement.html
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Page 1
Photos of Finished
Sweetheart Pendants
(with embellishment)

Front
Embellished

Back Embellished

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Photos of Unembellished
Sweetheart Pendant

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Charts for Unembellished Sweetheart Pendants

Front Layer Back Layer Arrangement of Prisms

Blue Sad Pentagonal Prism Pink Happy Triangular Prism

Green 0-Face Cube Purple Bored Triangular Prism

Bead Legend

<-- Embellishment (p. 6) Back


Front
Unembellished Unembellished

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Tips on How to Read the Charts

This pattern uses four types of beaded prisms, represented by the four faces. The blue sad face is a
pentagonal prism, the green O-face is a cube (square prism), and the pink happy face and the purple bored
face are both triangular prisms.

The chart covered in little faces shows the arrangement of the prisms that
makes a sweetheart. You can start anywhere, but I suggest starting on the
straight part with the green O-faces.

Each of the prisms above has one arrangement of beads on it. Imagine
placing beads on every edge, and when beads surround the same polygon,
then they are stitched in a loop. For example, each cube has 6 square faces, Squashed
which represents 6 loops of thread. (These loops can be stitched in many Green 0-Face
different ways.) Both drawing to the right shows the green O-face cube.
The top one is the cube squashed flat. The front layer is the center square
with four beads (the loop goes pink, blue, pink, blue). The back layer is
represented by the outside square with six beads (purple, purple, blue,
purple, purple, blue). There is also a top face, bottom face, left face and right
face.
3D
If you get confused about which bead goes where, you can also use the 3D Green 0-Face
perspective of the same cube, like I show here. This is the same cube as the
green O-face right above it.

The hardest part of beading this pattern is beading the


triangular prisms, one of which is shown to the right. The
loop on the front has just three beads, which feels a bit
counter-intuitive when you are used to beading regular CRAW.
Also, that blue bead at the bottom is part of this prism, as
well as both cubes on either side. Just remember, if beads
surround the same polygon (square, rectangle, triangle or
pentagon), then they should be sewn together in a loop.
Happy Beading!

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Embellishment
After you finish the CRAW base, the last step is to embellish
the beadwork with tiny (green) beads. Pass through the
beads until you exit any blue bead. *Pick up 1 or 2 green
beads (15/0 for small heart, 11/0 for large heart) according
to where you are on the chart to the right. Pass through the
next blue bead(s). Repeat from * until you added all of the
green beads in that round. You will complete four rounds of
this embellishment: Front outside, front inside, back outside,
back inside. The embellishment on the front and back is the
same.

With a little extra stitching, you can anchor the green beads
securely at the inside and outside corners, like I show just
below. The outside corners are at the bottom corners of the
pink happy face prisms. The inside corners are at the top cor-
ners of the blue sad face prisms. See figures below for thread
paths in red. Do the extra stitching shown on the blue sad
face on both sides, but you only need to do the extra stitching Embellished with Small Green Beads
on the pink happy face on one side or the other, but not both. on Front and Back.
Arrows indicate where the single
green bead are. All other green
beads come in pairs.

Below, I show the start of the embellishment


on the front outside edge.

Bead Legend

<-- Embellishment

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