How to Make a Bead with Triangles

The bead progresses from left to right.

1. Black base, put 4 dots around the top shoulder. Don't melt them in.

2. Put 4 dots aroung the bottom shoulder.

3. (wow thats ugly) get a nice gather with one transparent color and stab the white dots. Try to cover all the way down to the base of the white bead (better than  I did), but DON'T TOUCH THE ADJACENT DOTS!

4. Marver the dots up if you have to, to get them as uniform as you can. Melt them in. In this picture you can start to see the triangles forming. Do you know how hard it was for me to not let this bead to it's thing? almost there....almost... interruptus!

5. Fully melt all the dots in. They assume this shape because they are competing for space with the dots towards the center. If you like dot the points of the triangles with black stringer. This also will make imperfect triangles look pretty darn good.

6. Send me a nice email if this helps you, and maybe your favorite studio/tool/etc tip.

What can go wrong....

From the left:

1, 2, 5, 6 - white dots way too small, the triangles dont have enough mass to make it all the way across the bead

3. white dots are way uneven, not only in size but in placement around the bead.

5. dots on one side smaller than dots on the other.

7. Where the white is showing, not enough coverage with the transparent color. Also, too much transparent color makes the green bleed into the blue. Don't let the the dots touch when applying the transparent casing.

Don't get discouraged. The beads in this picture where some of my first. Just keep making them.