Tutorial: African Helix

Hi Friends:
I prepared this tutorial based on a request. You really have to forgive me, I won’t be posting any pictures,  I hope you will make do with only the written instructions, trust me, it’s very simple if you follow it closely.
You can either use seed bead and bugle beads, or you use seed beads throughout, if you want to use seed beads only, you will need two colours of seed bead,  all you just have to do is to substitute the bugle bead for seed beads,  like 3-4 seed beads.

Materials: 
1. Size 1 seed bead. 
2. Bugle bead.
3. 0.25 fish line.
4.  Bead needle.


Procedure:
1. Insert a needle to a comfortable length of fish line.
2. Insert one seed bead and one bugle bead, three times simultaneously, slide them down to the end of the fishing line, leaving about six inch tail.
3. Stitch through all the beads to form a triangle shape, your fishing line should exit from a seed bead.
4. Pick a seed bead and a bugle bead.
5. Pass the needle into the nearest seed bead in the triangle.
6. Repeat from step four (4).
Note: You can gently push the beadwork into a tubular shape, make sure you are stitching your needle through the raised seed bead.


Feel free to share your finished project on my facebook page, @beadglitz ng.



                                Happy beading,
                                     Tomisin.