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Dutch Spiral is a stitch that leaves lovely, draped sections of seed beads and allows you to include many different shapes and sizes of beads.



Materials:
4mm beads
6/0 seed beads
8/0 seed beads
11/0 seed beads

1. To do the weave thread on one 4mm bead, one 6/0, one 8/0, one 11/0, and one 8/0
2. Pass through the 4mm bead making a ring and pull snug
3. Pick up one 4 and pass through the first 6
4. Pick up one 6 and pass through the first 8
5. Pick up one 8, two 11's and one 8 and pass through the last 4
6. Repeat from step 3 but each time you add a row add one 11 until you get up to nine (or number you want to make it lacy looking).

The method is basically the same as odd-count tubular peyote.



Finishing:
7. Decrease to end the stand by dropping off one 11 in each row until you get down to one

A Variation of the Dutch Spiral

What You'll Need:
* 8 ceramic tube beads. Dark blue with peach & medium blue flowers. They are about 3/5 of an inch long by 1/4 of an inch wide.
* 10 round 6mm transparent peach beads
* 1 hank size 10 sapphire satin seeds
* 1 vial size 8 silver-lined teal delicas
* Several strands each of light blue matte transparent (you might want to try substituting peach for these), silver-lined blue, and silver-lined purple size 11 seeds (I used delicas for the purple)
* Sterling ring and bar clasp (aka toggle clasp)
* 1 yard Softflex wire
* size D Nymo beading thread
* size 12 beading needle
* 4 silver crimp beads
* flat-nosed or crimping pliers

Begin by constructing the spiral portion of the necklace: pick up 1 teal, 2 light blue matte, 1 silver-lined blue, 1 purple, and 2 sapphire satin and tie them in a circle. Continue through the teal bead.

For the second row, add one bead in between each of the first 5 beads and 4 between the 5th bead of the base row and the first bead of the new row. Pick up one teal and go through the first of the two blue mattes. Pick up a blue matte and go through the second blue matte in the base row. Pick up another blue matte and go through the silver-lined blue. Pick up a silver-lined blue and go through the purple. Then pick up 1 purple and 3 sapphire satin and go through the first teal bead you added. You'll note that the first bead you pick up is always the same color as the bead your thread is coming out of; remembering this is a big help in keeping your place.


From the third row on, the method is basically the same as odd-count tubular peyote. For the third row, pick up a teal bead and go through the first blue matte in the previous row. Then pick up a blue matte and go through the second blue matte. Pick up another blue matte and go through the silver-lined blue. Then pick up a silver-lined blue and go through the purple. Finally, pick up one purple and 4 sapphire satin and go through the teal bead you started the row with.



Each subsequent row is constructed the same way with the exception of the number of sapphire satin beads used in each final stitch. The number of these should be increased by one in each row until you reach 18. From that point on, use 18 sapphire satin in each row until you reach a length of about 8 1/2 inches. At that point you should begin decreasing the number of sapphire satin beads by one for each row until you get back to 2. When you reach the final row, tighten it up by going through only the beads added in that row a couple of extra times. Weave your thread back into the work and snip.

source http://beadwork.about.com/

A Variation of the Dutch Spiral with cube beads

you will need:

225 (approx.) 4mm cube beads (cube)
Small amount of 11/0 seeds or Delicas in the same color
as the cube beads (substitute)
3-4 grams of 11/0 seeds or Delicas (accent color 1)
3-4 grams of 11/0 seeds or Delicas (accent color 2)
40 grams (approx) of 11/0 seeds or Delicas (main color)
Nymo D or Silamide thread

To start, you are going to string 1 substitute bead (S), 2 beads of accent color 1 (AC1), 2 beads of accent color 2 (AC2) and 3 beads of the main color (MC). Go through all 8 beads again, and tie the thread off, leaving a 9 inch tail.



Now, pass the thread through the S bead. Pick up one S bead, and pass through the next bead. Pick up one AC1 bead, and pass through the next bead. Pick up another AC1 and pass through the next bead. Pick up one AC2 and pass through the next bead. Then pick up one AC2 and 3 MC and pass through the first S bead which you added at the beginning of this round. (Note: the bead you are picking up is the same color as the bead your thread is coming out of.)



Repeat the previous sequence for about 15 rows, and then increase the MC beads from 3 to 4. Continue adding rows using 4 MC beads for about 25 rows.

Now we're going to start adding the large beads. For this row, pick up one cube in place of the S bead. Continue the rest of the row as before.



Work 10 rows with 4 MC beads, then 5 rows with 5 MC beads, then 4 rows with 6 MC beads, then 4 rows with 7 MC beads, then 4 rows with 8 MC beads, then 2 rows with 9 MC beads, and finally 1 row with 10 MC beads. (This sequence will give you the "corkscrew" look at the top of the spiral. If you want a more gradual spiral, follow the same sequence as above for increasing the MC beads, but follow the sequence below for adding the large beads.)

Now we get to the interesting part. If you were to follow the regular instructions for a dutch spiral, you would simply start increasing your MC beads until you had 18-20 beads in each row, and then repeat the rows until your spiral was the desired length. With the cube beads, this won't work. There isn't enough room for the size and shape of the cubes, and instead of spiraling, they start to twist themselves in all sorts of directions and look terrible. We have to trick the beads into spiraling. To do this, we are only going to add a cube bead every other row, with a substitute bead in the first accent color filling in on the alternate rows.

So, we've already added the cube bead for a row with 10 MC beads. Now, pick up one AC1 bead and go through the next bead. Continue the row as above, ending with 10 MC beads. Now, instead of going back through the AC1 bead, go through the cube bead from the previous row. You should end up with 2 rows of 10 MC beads both going into the cube bead, and your top row should have 3 AC1 beads instead of 2.



Next, pick up one cube bead and go through the second AC1 bead, skipping the first AC1 bead from the previous row. Continue the rest of the row as usual, increasing the number of MC beads to 11, and finish by going through the cube bead just added.



On the next row, again replace the cube bead with an AC1 bead, and finish the row by going through the cube bead again. You should have 11 MC beads. (We're only going to increase the MC beads on the rows where you add a new cube bead.)

Continue adding rows, increasing the MC beads by 1 every other row, until you have 20 MC beads. Then work the spiral until it is about an inch short of where you want the second "corkscrew" to start. At this point, start decreasing the MC beads by one every other row, until you are back down to 10 MC beads. Then stop substituting AC1 beads and work a cube bead in every row, reducing the number of MC beads in the same sequence as the first "corkscrew". Once you have worked down to 4 MC beads, and have finished the 10 rows at this level, drop the cube beads, substituting the S beads in each row. Again, follow the reverse sequence for the top of the spiral to finish the necklace.



source http://beadingbanshee.com/free/dutch-variation.html

Dutch Spiral Necklace


Dutch Spiral Necklace
Beautiful Beaded Dutch Spiral

I went over the Dutch Spiral technique briefly in my Ruffles & Curls feature but there seems to be a lot of interest in this technique lately so here's a full project using Dutch Spiral.

What You'll Need

* 8 ceramic tube beads. Dark blue with peach & medium blue flowers. They are about 3/5 of an inch long by 1/4 of an inch wide.
* 10 round 6mm transparent peach beads
* 1 hank size 10 sapphire satin seeds
* 1 vial size 8 silver-lined teal delicas
* Several strands each of light blue matte transparent (you might want to try substituting peach for these), silver-lined blue, and silver-lined purple size 11 seeds (I used delicas for the purple)
* Sterling ring and bar clasp (aka toggle clasp)
* 1 yard Softflex™ wire
* size D Nymo beading thread
* size 12 beading needle
* 4 silver crimp beads
* flat-nosed or crimping pliers

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We will begin by constructing the spiral portion of the necklace. Pick up 1 teal, 2 light blue matte, 1 silver-lined blue, 1 purple, and 2 sapphire satin and tie them in a circle. Continue through the teal bead.



For the second row, we will add one bead in between each of the first 5 beads and 4 between the 5th bead of the base row and the first bead of the new row. Pick up one teal and go through the first of the two blue mattes. Pick up a blue matte and go through the second blue matte in the base row. Pick up another blue matte and go through the silver-lined blue. Pick up a silver-lined blue and go through the purple. Then pick up 1 purple and 3 sapphire satin and go through the first teal bead you added. You'll note that the first bead you pick up is always the same color as the bead your thread is coming out of; remembering this is a big help in keeping your place.



From the third row on, the method is basically the same as odd-count tubular peyote. For the third row, pick up a teal bead and go through the first blue matte in the previous row. Then pick up a blue matte and go through the second blue matte. Pick up another blue matte and go through the silver-lined blue. Then pick up a silver-lined blue and go through the purple. Finally, pick up one purple and 4 sapphire satin and go through the teal bead you started the row with.



Each subsequent row is constructed the same way with the exception of the number of sapphire satin beads used in each final stitch. The number of these should be increased by one in each row until you reach 18. From that point on, use 18 sapphire satin in each row until you reach a length of about 8 1/2 inches. At that point you should begin decreasing the number of sapphire satin beads by one for each row until you get back to 2. When you reach the final row, tighten it up by going through only the beads added in that row a couple of extra times. Weave your thread back into the work and snip.

Now we'll add the rest of the necklace. Take your wire and cut it in half. Take one piece and thread one crimp bead, one peach bead, and one satin sapphire. Skip the satin and go up through the peach bead and the crimp. Go past the crimp by an inch or so. Then use flat-nosed pliers (or crimping pliers if you have them) to squash the crimp bead tightly.



Now thread the other end of the wire through the end of the finished spiral. Pull it up tight so that the peach bead is hidden inside the spiral.



Now pick up one ceramic tube, one peach bead, one tube, one peach, 1 tube, 1 peach, 1 tube, 1 peach, and 20 teal. Add a crimp bead and one side of your clasp. Skip the clasp and go down through the crimp bead and the teal beads. Tighten and crimp. Cut the wire just short of the top tube bead and slip it inside. Repeat this process with the other piece of wire and you are done.