Christmas Bauble

Seed Beads
4mm Bicones
6mm Bicones

Make 5 of the following:-

String 1 x 6mm, 3 size 11 seeds until you have 5 sets of each bead.



Exit through the centre of a seed bead. Pick up 5 further seed beads and take your needle through the centre seed bead in the next set. Repeat all the way round.



Pick up a 4mm bead and take your needle through the centre of next bead loop.



Sew through the 5x4mm beads and the centre bead again to pull in. Finish off your thread and make 4 more.

String 30 beads, tie together into a circle and pass your needle away from the knot. Pick up 7 seed beads, 1 x 4mm bicone, 7 seed beads and take your needle through the top of one of your 6mm beads in one of your 5 pieces you have just made.

Pick up a further 7 seed beads. Miss a bead in your top circle and take your needle through the next 2 beads.



Pick up 7 seed beads, 4mm, 3 seed beads, 4mm 3 seed beads, 4mm, 3 seed beads, 4mm, 3 seed beads, 4mm, 3 seed beads. Take your needle back through the first 4mm and on until you exit out of the centre seed bead.

Pick up 5 seed beads and take your needle through the centre bead in the next group of seed beads. Repeat all the way round your inner circle.

Exiting out of the centre bead in a group of 5, pick up 1 seed bead and pass through the centre in next group. Repeat all the way round.

Work your way round the 5 central seed beads, and up until you are exiting out of the opposite side of the 4mm bead. Pick up 7 seed beads, miss 1 seed bead in the top circle and pass through 2 seed beads. Repeat the 2 beaded sections until you come back to the beginning of your top circle.

Make a beaded loop out of a length of beads and your bauble is complete.