LEARN and CREATE – a “Square Element” in flat peyote stitch

Elements are parts you may potentially connect together to create earrings, bracelets, charms, pendants and necklaces to your heart's content. As in the “Plum” bracelet, the flat “Square Element” is a peyote with a tweak that breaks a straight line in two pieces to create a corner.

Square Element - top view

Challenge:

Don't forget to create a step-up to get to the following round. Pay attention to add two beads in each corner.

Supplies for the “Square Element”:

11/0 Japanese tubular seed beads type Delica in two colors: color A and color B
S-lon thread size D and needle #12
scissors and a bead mat

Weaving instructions for the “Square Element”:

cut off about 1,20 m thread and keep 20 cm tail thread
set-up: pick up a PAIR number of Delica beads for each side: side 1 - 3 in color A for the side, 1 in color B for the corner, side 2 - 3 in color A, 1 in color B, side 3 - 3 in color A, 1 in color B, side 4 - 3 in color A, 1 in color B

Square element - set-up, start

you picked up 16 beads in total
pass your needle through all the beads to make a circle and continue till you get in front of a corner bead in color B

Square element - set-up, form circle

round 3: *pick up 3 beads in color B, skip the corner bead and go through the next bead which is in color A

Square element - round 3, add 3 beads for the corner

pick up a color A, skip a bead and go through the next bead*

Square element - round 3, add 1 bead in peyote

pick up 3 beads in color B, skip the corner bead and go through the next bead
note: this is the only round in which you add three beads in each corner
pick up a color A, skip a bead and go through the next bead
repeat the process *...* two more time
go through one more bead (which is in color B) to make a step-up and get access to the next round

Square element - round 3, step-up

note: the step-up consists of two beads of which one of the recent round and one of the next round without skipping a bead
round 4: **pick up 2 beads in color B, skip the corner bead and go through the next bead which is in color B

Square Element - round 4, add 2 beads in the corner

pick up a color A, skip a bead and go through the next bead, pick up a color A, skip a bead and go through the next bead**
repeat **...** three more times
make a step-up by going through the next bead

Square element - round 4 - step-up to round 5

SEE - part 2

LEARN and CREATE – a “Square Element” in flat peyote stitch - part 1