A lot of people had conflicts this year, so our group was only five beaders. In Bead Around the World, everyone makes a start bead, and the other beaders make a bead to complement that bead, to the originator’s specifications.

Here are the start beads:

And here’s what I made to go with these beads:

These beads are square stitch and peyote and netting, and self-supporting. I’ll post what the other beaders made for me next!