CRAWSweetheart
CRAWSweetheart
CRAWSweetheart
by Gwen Fisher
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
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Photos of Finished
Sweetheart Pendants
(with embellishment)
Front
Embellished
Back Embellished
Bead Legend
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.
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.
Bead Legend
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