Sometimes instead of even more fancy details, shine, and bling a design needs the exact opposite: a pool of calmness, straight lines, and even some matte or opaque tones. The Paris motif that I used for this bracelet is as fancy as the city that it got its name from. A Preciosa sew-on rhinestone in the middle, fire-polished beads with AB and glittery effects, golden wavy lines on the edge, and full metal plated Preciosa bicone beads are beautiful together, but without a counterbalance they loose momentum – when everything in focus, nothing ends up being in focus. By adding ‘calm spots’ in between the busy squares the bracelet becomes more dynamic.
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How to bead a square stitch bezel
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It’s always possible to add a Peyote-bezeled chaton or rivoli in between motifs. However, I wanted to use and create something even calmer then the facets of the crystal glass cabochons and the zip-like structure of Peyote. I was longing for straight lines and smooth surface: and that’s what I could achieve by using the Preciosa Nacre cabochons and a simple and fast square stitch bezel!
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NAC – 8 mm Preciosa Nacre cabochon
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R15 – 15/0 Miyuki round seed beads
C11 – 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads
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For a 8 mm cabochon or pearl, pick up (22) C11 beads.
Bead through all of them one more time, starting with the first, so the result is a circle.
Bead through the first bead for a third time, too.
Don’t tie a knot.
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Pick up (1) R15.
Bead through the C11 that you were exiting before picking up the R15.
Bead through one more C11.
Continue adding R15 beads.
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Complete the whole circle.
There should be the same number of R15 beads as there are C11 beads.
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Bead through all the R15 beads to join them into a circle.
You can repeat this to create a smoother line of r15 beads.
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NAC – 8 mm Preciosa Nacre cabochon
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R15 – 15/0 Miyuki round seed beads
C11 – 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads
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Bead back to the C11 beads.
Add a row of R15 beads on the back of the bezel, too.
Insert the NAC (domed side towards the R15 added in steps 2 and 3).
Join the R15 beads just like you did in step 4.
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Continue working with square stitch.
Add R15 and C11 beads interchangeably, but adding a new bead on top of (2) R15 beads from the previous step instead of one.
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As you need to add (11) new beads, the first and the last one will be an R15, too.
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Join the R15 and C11 beads into a circle.
Your bezel is complete.
You can use it as a connector or decorate it further with more beads.
Show me your jewels with Nacre cabochons and with the square stitch bezel in a comment 🙂
I’ve wanted to learn beading around a cabachon, or “bezelling”. Also a printout, download or something like that.
Do you live in Slovakia? I’ve visited there.
Thanks. Paulette Kuzmanovich
So can this be done on a crystal rivoli or a flatter cabochon? Thanks
Yes, we successfully used 8mm chaton, 8mm rivoli needs to be tested in the Beadingschool creative team. Please ask in the Beadingschool Club if we have a member who tried the rivoli 🙂 Thank you!
Thank you very much for this tutorial on how to do a square stitch bezel of a nacre cabochon — it’s very beautiful and it’s always nice to have more than one possibility for a beaded a bezel around beads/cabochons. Very nice!!!
I’m very happy to know you found this helpful and enjoyed bezelling with square stitch! 🙂
I wish you would condense the instructions and have a place to print the instructions. It is hard to bead on my computer with it running and beading I don’t have the space. If you had a button to print the instructions it would be very helpful.
The downloadable file is coming this week! 🙂
Great!!! It’s true looks different.
Always it is good to have alternated options.
Thanks ! Have a nice day!!!!
Such a beautifully simple way to bezel the Nacre cabochons – an elegant addition to include in our beaded pieces. Thank you. 😊
I’m happy that you like it, Faye! It is indeed a good alternative to Peyote bezels, creates a different effect 🙂
I love this little pool of calmness 🙂
My mind is already on a journey finding ways to embelish it and create something less calm. 😅
It is a wonderful idea and definitely achieved what you wanted with it! Thank you so much for sharing!
Nitti I love the ‘little pool of calmness’ definition! Enjoy beading and may these bezels bring you calmness and creativity!