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BEADED AMULET PURSES • PROIECT THREE 17

Sections to be read before beginning:

•    Tubular Lattice Netting (page 47)

•    Fringe (page 51)

•    Threads, KnotS and Bead Graphs (page 52)

•    To begin tubular lattice netting (page 54)

•    How to read tubular lattice netting graphs (page 58)

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Materials used:

•    Size ll^c seed beads:

•    Transparent orange

•    Transparent light green

•    Transparent sapphire

•    Fringes include:

•    Czech molded glass beads

•    Oval Italian millefiori beads

•    Guatemalan clay parrot

•    Size 6° transparent light green seed beads for strap

•    Half a yard of three-quarter inch light green ribbon

This project is a flattened tubę with the bottom stitcheri together.

To create the body of the purse. String 80 seed beads and tie into a circle. Allow a one-quarter inch space between the last bead and the knot. Place the circle over a support. See Lightweight Supports for Beading (page 7).

Take the needle and thread through the first bead. Pick up three seed beads and pass through bead five of the circle of beads (figurę 1). Thread on three morę beads and pass the needle through the fourth bead to the left of the last bead worked, bead nine (figurę 1). Continue adding new beads in groups of three and connecting at each fourth bead of the base strand until you reach the end of the circle.

Figurę 7

At this point, go back through bead one, which now contains three threads, and up through the next two beads of the first three-bead loop of row two (figurę 2). This step-up will be done at the end of each row. Continue creating rows until the tubę is two inches high.

Notę: The dotted bead is the last l>ead of the step-up and the place where the next row starts.

To add accent beads. Near the bottom, bring the needle up a few rows and out through one of the connector beads. Pick up an accent bead, run the needle through the next connector bead to the left (figurę 3). Continue around until you've finished.

Figurę 3

To attach the ribbon to the top rim. Measure the cir-cumference of the tubę at its widest. The lattice netting stitch is quite flexible so be surę to stretch the netting before measuring. Cut three-quarler inch ribbon the length of the circumference plus a generous seam allowance. Fold the ribbon in half along its length. Iron the seam fiat. Remove the tubę from the support. Leave a seam allowance and begin stitching the inside of the folded ribbon to the top of the loops (figurę 4a). Use a thread of the same color as the ribbon.

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Figurę 4a & b

After the ribbon is attached to the inside body of the purse, seam and trim the ribbon. Fold the ribbon forward and carefully tack the front edge of the ribbon to the back edge of the ribbon (figurę 4b).