This weekend, I visited my favorite local bead store to learn a new beadweaving stitch from my beading mentor, a very nice gal named “Emi.” Once you learn a new stitch, then creativity can take over. Anyhow, the stitch I learned is called a “Russian Spiral.” Here is my practice piece:
As soon as I had the stitch down, I moved to my first actual piece of jewelry, a necklace. Here it is so far:
This helix looking stitch is very tubular… it has dimension and feels interesting. Once I have my proper length, then I use a decreasing peyote stitch to make an end cap, then attach the clasp.
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Today, I’m back in my quilting studio quilting. I need to finish my current quilt so I can get to my next one.
Keep Watching Alert: My good pal, Lori, over at the blog, “Art & Play,” sent me a special mailing I want to share with you all. Good stuff!!
Carla Barrett 
Neat!
Very pretty!
How cool is that!
Karen A.
Love that Carla! Very DNA like… cool.
It does look like DNA! I use to do some beading myself but nothing like this. Wonder were I hid, I mean stored all my stuff?!
Thanks for sharing!
Very nice!!! I like different spirals, but this is very interesting and beautiful.
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There is a similar spiral called an African Helix. Maybe even the same weave, just different names.
Why don’t you show us HOW to do this stitch?
Dear No Name, if you do a web search for this stitch, you will see there are many instructional sites that show you how to do it.
Hope this helps. C
@no name: easy, take 9 seedbeads and form a circle, then 1 bugle seedbead and 2 seedbeads and pass the needle through the 3rd seedbead of the circle; repeat the same set 2 more times, the third time just jump 1 seedbead instead of 3 to complete the first row.
Now it’s gonna be very easy, just take 1 bugle seedbead and 2 seedbeads and pass the needle through the seedbead after the bugle bead… that’s how I did and it worked for me! hope it will for you as well… happy beading! 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to teach the commenter how to do this simple stitch.