Tila Garden Pendant and Earrings

The Tila Garden Pendant uses the dual-hole Miyuki Tila beads to create little plots for flowers woven from shaped seed beads. This advanced design uses the geometry of a dodecahedron, and has enough sides for twelve different flowers all gathered on this one little pendant (Check out my free Candy Dodecahedron pattern for an introduction to dodecahedron beaded beads). The pattern explains how to weave the flowers in an even color distribution, so that no two flowers of the same color touch each other. This design could also serve as a stunning focal bead, or even as a miniature ornament.

Use Half Tila beads in this design for a dainty pair of matching earrings! The updated pattern shows how to make both the Tila Garden Pendant and the Half Tila Garden Earrings.

Pattern

The Tila Garden beading pattern includes:

• Complete written instructions on how to weave both the pendant and the matching earrings.
• 18 pages of step-by-step instructions.
• 56 full color illustrations and photographs.
• Several photos of finished jewelry and design variations.

Materials

To stitch this pendant and earrings set, you'll need:

• Miyuki Tila and Half Tila beads
• 3.4 Miyuki drop beads or Czech Rizo beads
• 2 by 4mm peanut seed beads
• 15° and 11° Japanese seed beads
• 18mm and 10mm round beads
• 3" and 2" head pins, 22G
• 8mm bead caps
• 3mm round sterling silver beads
• A pair of ear wires
• Beading thread (6lb Fireline, KO, Miyuki beading thread, or One G)