Beaded Diamond-Shaped Ring Pattern

Welcome to the beaded diamond-shaped ring pattern instructions! If you have any difficulty following this tutorial, please post a comment at the bottom of the page on which you are stuck, and I'll do my best to help!

Step 1

Step 1 : So here I cut out the left-hand side of the paper drawing and placed it side by side with the beaded pattern of the ring. I've skipped the first few steps because you have them in much greater detail in the beginning of the tutorial. This is just to show you how to make this particular pattern. The gold bugle bead with a black dot on it is the first bead to be added in the pattern (your starting point). It's the very bottom left "bead" in the paper drawing. Then add 1 gold bugle and 1 translucent white bugle on either end of the fishing line and cross the green bugle labelled with a red dot. Then, keep working your way up the pattern as shown (follow the arrows). Finally, cross the blue bead labelled with a pink dot with both ends of the fishing line. Can you see what parts of the pattern you have accomplished on your paper drawing?

Step 2

Step 2 : Now, we have reached the corner of the ring, so we'll turn. In order to turn the direction of beading, all we have to do is add more beads to one end of the fishing line than the other. Add two gold bugle beads to one end of the fishing line (doesn't matter which since the pattern was symmetrical as of the last step), then cross both ends of the fishing line through the translucent white bugle bead marked with a red dot. We have now finished one entire vertical row in your paper drawing, and we've also already turned to start working on another row. See how easy it is to follow a pattern drawn on paper?

Step 3

Step 3 : Now we are starting the second vertical row of the pattern, adjacent to the first row. So, to the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow, add 1 gold bugle bead and 1 translucent white bugle bead. Then cross the blue bugle bead (marked by green dot) with both ends of the fishing line. Then, take the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow through the translucent white bugle bead marked by a turquoise dot. This bead is already in the pattern, so there is no need to add any new beads. Look at your pattern on paper to see that we have done one "cell" in the second row of the pattern. We are working our way back down the second vertical row of the pattern (in the opposite direction from the first row). As you can imagine, we will be working back upwards in the third row, and back downwards in the fourth row until we finish. You can go ahead and try it yourself to finish, and use the rest of this tutorial as a guide to make sure you are on the right track!

Step 4

Step 4 : I combined several steps together here because it should hopefully be clear to you what I've done if you've been following the rest of the tutorial. I basically added two additional "cells" of the second row of the beaded ring pattern. Specifically, add 1 translucent bugle bead (marked by a black dot) to the end of the fishing line depicted by a black arrow, then cross both ends of the fishing line through the red bugle bead marked by a yellow dot. Then, take the end of the fishing line depicted by a black arrow through the white translucent bugle bead marked with a dark blue dot. This bead is already in your pattern so don't add any new beads here (it's the one under the white bugled marked by a turquoise dot that you went through in the previous step). To the other end of the fishing line (red arrow), add 1 more translucent white bugle (red dot), then with both ends of the fishing line, cross the green bugle marked with a pink dot. Then (last step here!), take the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow through the translucent white bugle bead marked by a purple dot (sound familiar? It's under the turquoise and blue ones, and already in your pattern). Then add 1 gold and 1 translucent white bugle beads (marked by orange dots) to the same end of the fishing line.

Step 5

Step 5 : This step is just completing the previous step. I should really revise when I take my pictures to balance things a bit. Anyways, all you have to do here is cross the translucent white bead (marked by orange dot) that you just added, with the other end of the fishing line (black arrow). Then, to the same end of the fishing line, after crossing, add 1 gold bugle bead, 1 translucent white bugle bead, and 1 green bugle bead. All three are marked by a turquoise dot. In the next step, we are turning again in the pattern to start a new row from the bottom upwards. We are already half-way done this pattern! Can you see what we've done in your paper pattern? I hope you've been following it, so that way you will be self-sufficient next time in making your own patterns!

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