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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 56:Okay, I'm evil and I apparently skipped more steps. But those are some colourful dots I drew on this picture. Anyways, here you see us climbing back up the third row of the beaded ring pattern. Last we saw, we added the three beads marked by turquoise dots to the end of the fishing line depicted by the black arrow. So, now cross the last one added (the green one) with the other end of the fishing line (red arrow). Then, take the end of the fishing line depicted by the black arrow through the translucent white bugle bead marked by a red dot. This bead is already in the pattern, so don't add any new beads. You have done this many times before in this pattern. It allows the rows of the pattern to overlap and join. To the other end of the fishing line (red arrow), add 1 translucent white bugle bead (marked with a purple dot), then cross both end of the fishing line through a red bugle bead (marked by a dark blue dot). Finally, take the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow through the white translucent bugle bead marked by a green dot. Phew! We are half-way done the third row of the beaded ring pattern!
Step 57:Oh boy, I skipped quite a few steps here. But again, it should all be repetition by now, and you should hopefully have learned how to follow your pattern on paper. We left off half-way up through the third row of the pattern. So to the end of the fishing line depicted by the black arrow, add a white translucent bugle bead (marked by a turquoise dot), then a blue bugle bead (with turquoise dot) and cross it with the other end of the fishing line (depicted by a red arrow). Take the end of the fishing line depicted by the black arrow through the white translucent bugle bead marked with a pink dot. It is already in your pattern, so don't add any new beads here. At this point, we want to turn the pattern again to start on the fourth row of the pattern and work our way back down. So to the same end of the fishing line (black arrow), add 1 gold bugle bead (marked with pink dot) and 1 white translucent bugle bead (marked by purple dot). Cross this last bead with the other end of the fishing line (red arrow end). We can now start on the fourth row of the pattern, as we just finished the third row. To the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow, add 2 gold bugle beads (marked by orange dots), then 1 blue bugle bead (marked by a red dot). Cross this last bead with the other end of the fishing line (black arrow end). Finally, take the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow through the white translucent bugle bead marked by a turquoise dot. This bead is already in the pattern, so don't add any new beads. Sound familiar? You are linking the fourth row to the third row with overlapping beads. We are now working our way down the fourth and final row of the beaded ring pattern!
Step 58:To save us all from more aggravation of hearing me say what got crossed where one last time, I just drew the arrows in this picture. I *hope* by now it's clear. Just keep adding beads to the outside, and going through existing beads on the inside of the row. And always cross the middle bead to move down by one "cell" in the row. Hopefully my arrows help. At the end, you see that I turned to face the side of the pattern instead of the bottom. That really wasn't necessary. You can just cross the bottom gold bugle bead instead of the side one. The reason I turned is just to get you in the habit of always turning at the end of each row, because this is what you do to change rows. So we are now done the base of the ring. It shoudl hopefully exactly match your paper drawing. I hope you can now take these skills and draw your own original drawing of a beaded ring pattern on paper and then follow the same steps to make the ring. Remember, you work your way up the first row, then down the second row, then back up the third row, then back down the fourth row. It should be easy no matter how complex your pattern is on paper as long as you follow the pattern very closely.
Step 59:So now we can add all the sparkly seed beads to spice up the ring pattern! This is done the exact same way as with the first beaded ring pattern I showed you in this tutorial (the Christmas theme), so if you have particular questions, go back a few pages to that section. Basically, just plug the seed beads in the spaces between the bugle beads. Go around the pattern with the ends of the fishing line going through a bugle bead, stringing a seed bead, and going through the next bugle bead. You can either go through the whole pattern with one end of the fishing line, or go though half and half and meet at the opposite corner with the two ends of the fishing line. One advantage to this is you use equal amounts of both ends, so they are still the same length at the end. As I have said many times before, when your ends of fishing line are not the same length, you can only bead as much as the smaller end allows.
Step 60:The very last step in the beaded ring pattern is to add the seed beads that go in the centre of the pattern. Follow the arrows, but if you want a more detailed description of how this is done with pictures of every step, turn back a few pages of this tutorial. It's done the same way as the periphery, except you go deeper into the pattern. Now you are done the pattern and you just need to add the backing of the ring. You can either turn back a few pages in this pattern or you can use the one in the cube-centred diamond-shaped beaded ring pattern, as it uses only seed beads, so it's a bit gentler on the skin. Enjoy! Make many more patterns for yourself!
