Gourd stitch
Gourd stitch, charted on the peyote lattice in round beads.
Gourd stitch is peyote worked in the round without a step-up, so the rounds spiral. It is named for the gourd rattles and fan handles it covers. The chart uses round beads on the half-drop lattice, so a spiral drawn here will spiral the same way on the handle.
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Columns drop a half bead, in round beads. Each bead nests between the two below it.
A tube has no left edge, so a chart for it has to close on itself: the editor wraps the design at the last column, and a diagonal that leaves one side comes back on the other. Start the pattern in a round bead line and the finished size follows that bead, not a cylinder.
- Gourd
- Variants
- GourdGourd
- Beads
- Delica 11/0 and 15/0Toho round, Preciosa rocaille
- Word chart
- Alternating rowsLeft, then right
- This cuff
- 546 beads39 × 14, 6 codes
