Star Ornament with Crystal Bicones | Peyote Stitch Puffy Star Beading Tutorial

Star Ornament with Crystal Bicones | Peyote Stitch Puffy Star Beading Tutorial

hello everybody it’s Juliet here today we are 
going to be making a Peyote star puffy peyote star which makes cute little ornaments um and 
we’re going to be adding in some Bicones so I’ve got some 4mm Bicones in here and I’ve got 
3 mm Bicones here and around the center with another another 4mm bicone there as you can see and 
I probably should have used a different color of thread there I don’t like that you can you can see 
the thread this side’s a little bit better maybe um but anyway these are really fun to make and I 
had made a star a while back I think it was about two years ago which I’ll put on the screen here 
for you so you can see it um and when I posted it on my Instagram lots of people said how do 
you make a star with Bicones in it um and I tried to explain it but I thought well you know 
I know you guys are already gearing up for uh the holidays and it’s always good these make great 
little gifts for people I haven’t I still have to put the hanger on but so I thought I’ll do a video 
and then I’ll give you guys plenty of time to make a whole bunch of these um you know for gifts or 
whatever um I’m just going to measure this this so this is not a very big star it’s little it’s cute 
it’s 3 inches no less than 3 inches 2 and a half inches um so you can see mine is six pointed you can also 
make a five-pointed the one I showed you here is in fact five pointed uh same it’s the same method 
um I was actually going to make this five-pointed and then I decided to insert one more bit so uh 
I’ll show you how to do it and um you can make them bigger if you want to and I do talk about 
that I have a whole like question and frequently asked questions bit where I answer some of the 
more common questions that I think you guys have uh obviously if you have more you can put them 
down below and I will put some chapter markers so that you can skip forward if I’m doing a bit 
that you already know how to do um and Skip to a bit that you’re more interested in if you already 
know how to make a warped Square for example you might want to skip forward to the next section 
um so let’s uh Dive Right In so before we begin let’s just uh run through the materials list so 
I’m using some delicas which are um Delica number 35 okay I have some 110 rounds and these are myuki 
uh these are number 4215 okay I have some more 11 O’s in red and green and these are just um silver 
lined the green ones are miuki number 16 and the red ones are number 11 then I have some 3mm by 
cones and these are dark moss green and I have some 4 mm red Bicones which are um Garnet opal 
okay so I will link everything uh down below for you in case you uh forget or you know want to look 
it up in the description below um for my thread because I have a lot of this and it’s quite like 
says it’s 0.15 I feel like it’s thicker than that um so I’m using Wildfire um today just because 
like I said I have a lot and I don’t really use it very often and I don’t really like it that much so 
I’m going to use it up um so I’m using that today and I have a size 10 beading needle and obviously 
you will need some scissors so the star that we’ll be making is made out of warped squares um and 
then we embellish one side of it um and we have to do some shaping on the other side well on both 
sides really but uh so if you already know how to do a warped Square you might want to skip forward 
and I’m going to put some chapters in this video so that you can skip forward um I’m also going to 
show you a couple little tips and tricks that I use so for instance I’m going to show how I do the 
very center um and get a nice even tension there and obviously I’ll show you the shaping but I’m 
also going to show you if you wanted to do like a line of green or you know gold or whatever around 
your crystal in the center I’m going to show you also how you would do that um anyway so the star 
is made up of five of these um so I’ll show you how to make one and then you’re going to go away 
and you’re going to make five more and once you’ve made all five we just zip it together like this 
um and that will complete our star so uh you’re going to need about 36 in of thread which is about 
a meter um to make one warped Square uh so go a ahead leave your 4in tail like you would at the 
on any other project that we do um so you can weave that in at the end and we’re going to start 
using our 11 o rounds and we’re going to pick up four so get your four and I’m actually going 
to zoom you in a teeny bit here okay and just leave that 4in tail and you’re just going to sew 
through the first first one again in order to form a little circle or Square or Diamond um shape 
okay uh and I like to work this in a clockwise Direction which is kind of weird but um it’s 
like how I like to do it okay so you’re going to pick up two and you’re going to go into the 
next the very next bead on that original square of four and you can see mine’s pulling loose a 
little bit that’s okay I’m just going to tighten that up okay so you’ll notice I haven’t tied 
any knots or gone through anything again and I’ll show you what I’m going to do to tighten 
it all up um in a minute now we’re going to pick up two more and I’m just going to go into 
the very next bead coming out this bead going into the very next bead okay and you want them 
these two beads to just sit next to each other okay so you should have something that looks a 
bit like this you’re going to pick up two more beads and you’re going to go into the very next 
bead and at this point your Square may already start to warp if it isn’t that’s okay too just try 
and get those beads to sit uh next to each other make sure they’re not Twisted okay so right now 
it just kind of looks like a little bit of a blob and then I’m going to pick up two more and 
I’m going to go into the very next bead okay and when I pull that okay so you can see now that mine has already started to turn into 
a warp okay see how two sides are sitting up and two sides are sitting down so that is 
the Warped Square effect okay and I trying to keep my tail on the bottom so I’m calling 
the other side the top I’m just trying to get that beat to settle a little better okay now 
in order to really solidify the middle here and I’m kind of coming out on the bottom but 
that’s okay I am going to pass through those four middle beads again and I’m going to 
pull nice and tight and that is going to lock everything in place cuz we’ve already got 
round two on but I’m going back around through round one I’m just doing it on the back 
because it’s a little bit easier for me to see so I’m just going through those four original beads skipping the two 
outside beads that we just added and I’m I’m working on the back which is why 
I’m going in the other direction I will flip back over to the front now okay so when you pull 
that then you’re going to get a really nice um solid Center okay and then you can just step up 
wherever your thread is coming out you’re just going to step up into the first outside bead 
so just follow your thread path until you’re coming out from one of your pairs okay so now 
every round from here on out we’re always going to when we’re coming out from one of these 11 
O’s we’re always going to pick up two 11 rounds okay and you’re just going to go into the 
next one and they’re going to start to form um stack up in a little Herring bone pattern 
like this then I’m going to pick up one Delica and I’m going to sew into the outside 
bead on the next uh cross section okay oops and that Delica is just going to 
sit in between those two beads there and then I’m again because I’m coming 
out one of the green rounds I’m going to pick up two I’m going to go into 
the next bead that’s right next to it and if they’re sitting a little crooked you 
can just pull them and they should um uh move into the correct pattern and your Square May warp 
upwards it may warp downwards it doesn’t matter which way your square is warping okay because 
we can flip it inside out and then we’re going to pick up one Delica we’re going to go into 
the next uh the first one on the next little Branch okay so he’s sitting in 
there here we are coming out of a green bead so we’re going to pick up 
two we’re going to go into the next Green bead so you can tell that we’re kind of building 
a little cross pattern here okay I’m trying to keep it all the same way up so you can see 
what I’m doing and then here we need another Delica so I’m going to pick up a Delica and 
I’m going to go into the first bead on this side and pull okay so then 
I’m going to pick up two more I’m going to add my fourth little 
um side of the Cross and I’m going to pick up one more Delica and here because 
I’ve done one two three this is my last one so I have to step up so I’m going 
to uh this is my original ring of four I’m going to step up through two beads here so 
I’m going through the second bead and the third bead okay so you’re going to have to go through 
two beads to step up at the end of each round and there is my delicate sitting there so I now have 
completed round three and I know it’s round three because I can count how many pairs of beads I have 
I have one two three so that was round three but we only have one delic so far so whatever round 
you’re on you’re going to have two less um delicas filling in the Gap than uh so you can either count 
the rounds counting your Herring bones or you can just uh Mark Where You Are by counting the delicas 
okay so now we’re going to repeat this and each round is going to get slightly bigger by one D 
on each side so we’re going to pick up two of our rounds okay and then here we’re going to have 
to add two delicas so we pick up a Delica go through the Delica that is there we pick up 
another Delica and we go through the 11 o that’s on the end okay so now we have 
two our first one we had one now we have two the next row we will add three 
and we’re just going to keep building and every time you come up through the 
end here you’re going to pick up two rounds to build onto um the 
the diagonal cross area okay so now again I’m going to add two 
Delica so one Delica go into the Delica the second Delica go into the end so now you can see the difference this side 
has its second round and this side doesn’t so you can kind of tell cuz it’s as it starts to get 
bigger you can noticeably tell like what side you’ve done and what side you haven’t um the 
most important thing is remembering to step up at the end of a round so what I like to 
do is I kind of count how many um how many little branches I’ve added on to so I um and I 
just count 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 and I know that on after the fourth one I have to step up um so 
that’s one way you can keep count uh the other way is it becomes quite obvious once you get 
moving because see right here I only had this bead and then this bead so it’s kind of obvious 
here I needed to just go into the end bead see here I have like a much longer area so when I 
get here I’m gonna have to go up to so it kind of you kind of start to see it um even if you’re 
not counting in your head um you can kind of see where you need to step up but if you’re a beginner 
I definitely recommend counting or keeping track of okay this side has two this side has two this 
side has two this side only has one so I know I have to finish the fourth side and then step up 
so you’re just going to add your one add your second one and here I know I have to step up so 
I’m just going to go up two rounds instead of one round and now I’ve stepped up and I am 
ready for round five or to add three delicas okay and you’re just going to keep 
going so again just add your two at the end to start your next round 
and then you’re going to add one two and three delicas and then I’m going to add 
my two at the end and I’m just going to keep going keep going um building up until I reach the row 
uh where I’m stepped up after adding six delicas so when you get to your eighth row which is where 
you’ve added your six delicas and you get to your step up that’s where you’re going to come back 
um so I’m going to speed through all of that the next few rounds okay and when I have finished 
my round with six delicas I’ll come back to you you okay so I just completed my round with 
six is on the side 1 2 3 4 5 6 on every side and I should have eight 1 2 3 4 five six 7even 
eight running up um the central spine there okay so we’re about to add row nine or round nine 
so just like we have been doing pick up your two 11 O’s for the end and here it’s a little 
bit different so you’re going to think three space three okay so you’re 
going to pick up one Delica two delicas and your third Delica so those are just normal and now we need to leave 
a space so instead of picking up a Delica I’m going to sew down 
the Delica that is down below okay so I’m coming out of this Delica here and 
I’m sewing into the one below it on the row below trying not to get my thread 
caught there we go and then you have to step back up into the row that 
we were doing okay so now I have a space here and now I’m going to add 
three more delicas so I’m going to go one two and three and in straight into the 11 o 
round on the end okay um and if you’re having trouble getting your tension right at the 
end it helps to pull uh backwards on that one just to smush your uh Delica back into 
the other ones I find that helps me um um okay so then again you’re just going to pick 
up your regular two that you would for the end and then you’re going to pick 
up again three delicas in a row so one two and three and then you’re 
going to skip the next one so what I like to do to speed things up 
is I just sew through two beads instead of one once I’ve added my third one on 
if you sew through the next two it just saves a step but you do have to step back 
up again okay uh it just makes it a little quicker to go and then three more and you’re 
going to do this on all four sides um so one two three and into the green bead 
okay so I’ve done it on two sides now and I have to do these two sides 
and then I’ll come back to you so just continue on the same for the other two 
sides and I’ll come back to you in a second okay so I’m just adding my very last 
Delica and stepping up through the two rounds at the end so now all four of my sides have um 
one bead missing on the side uh so now we’re going to embellish two sides of our uh warped 
square and you don’t need to do anything you can start exactly where you are so just where 
you finished coming out from uh the seam okay okay so you’re going to pick up a 3 mm bead Bic 
cone 3mm B cone and you’re just going to sew into the next bead and this is not going to want to 
sit straight right now so don’t worry if it sits at a little angle like this um it’s really hard 
to get it straight so just don’t worry about it leave it the way it is okay um then we’re going 
to pick up one of our delicas okay and sew into the first Delica okay and that Delica is going 
to sit next to um our round and then I’m going to pick up one of my red 11 o rounds these are just 
silver lined 11 o rounds okay and then I’m going to pick up a green one going into the next bead 
again that was just a 11 round and then I’m going to pick up a 4mm b cone and here you can see we 
have this little uh group of five right here okay so I’m coming out the very first bead this group 
of five and I’m going to go into the end bead okay and your B cone it’s not going to sit perfectly 
but you can kind of push it as well as you can you don’t have to smush it in there okay uh if 
it’s a little bit loose that’s okay because we’re going to tighten it all up um when we’re zipping 
together and also you’re going to want your B cone to sit a little bit above the um you know on the 
outside so you can see it so the B cone doesn’t fit perfectly but it fits well enough okay uh so 
now you’re going to pick up another green 11 o and then you’re going to pick up a red 11 o 
and finally you’re going to pick up a Delica for the end okay and obviously you can change 
the colors you don’t have to even do all of them maybe you just want two here this could be 
a Delica so you can you can kind of customize this uh color scheme the way you you want it to 
be okay and here we’re going to pick up another one of our 3 mm Bic cones and again coming 
out one side just going straight into the next bead okay again he’s not going to sit very 
flat right now that’s okay then you’re going to pick up another Delica we’re just going 
to repeat the same thing on this side so a red a green a bicone and again I’m just looking at 
my five and I’m going into that fifth one and then I need a green I need a red and then I need a Delica and then I am also 
going to add one more 3 mm so you have three 3 mm Bic cones and you have two 4 mm on each 
piece okay okay um and now I am just going to leave this thread dangling I’m going 
to take my needle out okay and I’m going to sew in my tail that is in the middle here 
so to do that just go ahead and thread your tail and then look at what bead you’re coming 
out of so I’m coming out this bead here and what I like to do is I just sew up the row 
not the whole way up maybe four or five six is okay as well so I just sew up like four 
beads there okay and then I’m going to sew down the uh equivalent one on the other 
side of the track and I just sew through all the way until I’m coming out from the 
center point okay so just sew down all of those give it a tug and then I 
just cut it so I don’t sew any knots or anything because this 
thread is not going to come out from it’s not going to come out through a whole 
series of um beads on a seam okay uh for so so for now I just leave my little tail and on my fifth or 
your first I actually did it on my first one I got a really long piece of thread like an entire Wing 
wingspan plus maybe a little bit more so on one of them I have a really long thread okay so maybe on 
your fourth one or fifth one do it with a really long thread okay so once you have your five um 
done let me move these out of the way because we’re not actually going to need any more beads 
at this point we have all of our beads that we need you’re going to uh start to connect them 
together and the way you connect them so you’re going to hold one of your warped pieces so 
that uh the Jewels are all on one side and there should be a v so all of my Jewels are on 
one side and it’s going to connect to another one that’s held in the same way with all all 
the jewels on one side okay and uh if you’re like oh no um how do I line that up or maybe 
yours is Twisted you can also flip it inside out if it somehow got on the wrong side just 
flip it inside side out and it’ll fix it okay um so my one that I have that I have a super 
long piece of thread I’m going to go ahead and thread my needle on that one and that’s going 
to be the first piece that I’m going to join together and I um on this one I’m coming out right 
after where I added that little Central Crystal uh so I am coming out into the very first green bead 
here so I need to find a piece that I want to join onto and just make sure that 
that’s going to line up so I’m coming out from the Green Piece and 
I’m going to sew into on my second one I’m going to sew from sorry trying and 
show you without that bit getting in the way okay so I’m here I’m going to 
sew into the Delica okay on that side so I’m sewing into the 
Delica on my right hand piece and then I’m going to sew into the Delica on my 
left hand piece that’s right after the second round okay so you’re going to sew up there so 
we’re just zipping these two sides together at the moment then I’m going to sew into my red 
bead on the right hand side okay and it starts to become more obvious as you’re going okay so 
once you kind of got the first few in place you can see it practically Zips itself so you’re 
always going into the Delica on the left hand side and then I’m going into the Green 
Round bead on the right hand side okay oops sorry knocking everything here okay and then 
I’m going to go into the Delica on the left hand side and then here I’m going 
to go through the Bic cone and everything I can get caught on I am getting 
caught on okay so go ahead sew through the Bic cone okay and what you’re going to 
want to do is you’re going to kind of want to use your finger make sure 
you kind of push that bonee to the front um then you’re going to go up to up 
through the Delica on the left hand side and I’m just trying to kind of keep it so 
that the Bic cone is on the front there okay then I’m going into oops I accidentally 
went through the second Delica there hang on then I’m going into the green around and I 
can possibly make it through the next Delica as well okay so you can see how it’s zipping together very nicely and then I’m 
going to go through the red bead and then the Delica on the left hand side and then the last 
Delica on the right hand side okay and then you’re going to go into 
the green bead on the left hand side okay um then you’re going to sew through 
your 3mm Bic cone that’s on the top of your be of your star okay where the 
point is and then you’re going to go down the green bead on the left hand 
side so we’re coming down the back now okay and it’s the same thing just turn 
your star over so I’m coming out of the green on the left hand side I’m going through the 
Delica on the right hand side that is sticking out and I’m going to go into the 
next Delica on the left hand side as well then I’m going to go into the red bead 
on the right and the next Delica on the left okay so I’m just zipping two beads at a time 
on the right and the left now just CU it it’s a little bit quicker uh I’m going through the 
green bead on the right the next Delica on the left I’m going through the B cone and then the 
next Delica on the left and I’m keeping that b cone being careful to keep that b cone on the 
top on the outside of my star okay and then I’m going again through the green and then 
the next Delica just zipping the two sides together going through the red on the 
right and the next Delica on the left I’m going through the next Del on 
the right and the green bead on the left and here you may ask what do I 
do now so now we are going to sew so I’m coming out on the right hand side right 
here here okay I’m going to sew through sorry on the left hand side I’m going 
to sew through the left hand Crystal okay so I’m sew sewn through that 
Crystal and I’m just turning my piece and now I’m going to get my next 
section and I’m going to figure out how he goes so he’s going to go like this 
and I’m going to go up through that um no let’s see so I’m looking at this I’m going 
to need to go into the first green bead after the crystal on my next piece so you’re 
just going to have to look at it and see where where you need to join okay CU I can see 
here that here the green is in and that one is out out so I need to come from an outside so that’s 
why I knew I had to go into the new piece and you can just keep your threads out of the way uh you 
might need them which is why I don’t cut those ones off you may need them okay so now I’m just 
going to zip all the way up over the top and down the other side just like I did um here so I’m 
coming out from the green I’m going to sew into the Delica on the left this time and then we 
have Delica on the right the red bead on the left okay so just keep zipping uh so I’m going to zip two more pieces 
together and then I’m going to show you how to put some filling in so that it stays the shapes 
stays and then I’m going to come back and I’m going to answer some questions um frequently asked 
questions okay okay so I have one more piece to join on which I will do in just one second uh so 
you can go ahead join that last piece on and then stuff it and then uh ZIP together your final seam 
um when you’re beating make sure that you’re uh tails are all stuck on the outside because if 
you get it on the inside you’re not going to be able to sew it in so make sure to keep all of 
your loose tails on the outside and you should not be joining any of your central crystals 
together yet um you should always be going through the Crystal and then into uh the green 
bead on the next piece um in order to join uh the next two pieces so none of your crystals 
you’re not ever sewing from one Crystal into the next Crystal on the center we will do that 
at the end we’ll do a little round and um we’ll finish that off okay um as you can see here you 
could also do a six pointed star if you wanted to and that would work as well I have room here 
to do one more if I wanted to um but a five point will just be a little bit fatter okay uh 
so let’s uh talk about frequently asked questions all right so question number one is 
why am I using rounds here and can I just use all rounds or can I just use all delicas and 
the simple answer is yes you can I like to use rounds on the seams because the beads are 
round and you’re we’re doing um we’re doing a sharp turn back on ourselves and uh delicas can be 
quite sharp so if you’re a very tight beater you might end up cutting your thread um I also think 
it just looks a little bit nicer to have rounds on the outside which is why I am doing rounds okay 
um the second question is is what if I want to not have these colored ones here and I want to have 
like a diamond around it how would I do that of like one color say I wanted to do a white diamond 
around my bic cone okay so on row five when we’re beating our 1 2 3 4 five Delica actually it’s 
it’s round seven but when we’re adding our five delicas you’re going to add one two and then 
your third one is going to be whatever color you want your diamond to be and then two and then 
on row six you’re going to add two your SEC your third and your fourth Delica are going to be your 
new color and then on the row where we had seven obviously you do two and then again your third and 
your fourth would be the new color and then when you’re zipping up you’re going to want uh the 
this one and this one to be the new color and that way you would have a diamond of a different 
color a contrasting color around your star around your Bic cone okay um and another question that I 
Mega asked is can you use other beads like pearls um you can obviously the shape here is better for 
a b cone you a pearl is not going to sit as nice it’s going to sit up a little bit but yes you in 
theory yes you can the other option would be to use a slightly smaller bead with um a 15o at the 
front and the back so you can just play around or if you wanted to do like an eight uh millim Bic 
cone you would have to to start making your Gap a few rows earlier can I make my star bigger or 
smaller absolutely just add more rows um always start making a dip um you’re going to need to 
start making a dip on a row where you’re adding an odd number of beads because you’re going to 
skip like the middle one or if you’re adding two you’re going to skip um say if you were adding 
nine on okay you’re either going to want to so you would do one two 3 four skip five six seven 
eight nine or you could do one two skip three four five six skip seven eight nine so you can 
make your stars bigger and just you just have to plan ahead okay all right so that uh concludes the 
question and answer section of this and I actually I’m thinking instead of making a five-pointed 
star I think I am going to make a six pointed star cuz I’m liking the look of that that’s 
very cute so I’m going to have to make another one of these let’s talk about stuffing so you 
can use toy stuffing sorry I’m trying to find okay you can use toy stuffing but the problem 
with that is that sometimes little hairs of it stick out so a trick I learned I have gazillions 
of like plastic bags shopping bags everything comes in these plastic bags you can actually cut 
out a square of this sort of scrench it up like this okay and put it in and it’s not going it’s 
clear for one thing and it’s not hairy so it’s not going to poke out um so what I like to use is 
just plastic so it’s good you know good to reuse it um for the environment and so I that’s what 
I would recommend for your stuffing okay um so I am going to make one more section and then I’m 
going to zip This Together uh zip it all the rest of it together and stuff it and then once I’ve 
done that I can reinforce my Center circles and then I can also go back and anywhere where I feel 
like maybe a crystal on the end needs a little help or maybe one of these doesn’t feel quite 
sturdy I can go back and reinforce that as well okay okay so I went ahead and made one more 
wedge um one more more Square and I’ve just cut a plastic bag cut the top off of it and I’ve cut a 
couple little squares and I’m just going to start um stuffing it before I start zipping it up and 
I might want to actually make smaller squares um there’s no real formula for this you just have to 
experiment with what works for your size of star and um I’m just going to start 
stuffing each little um point and it helps you can kind of get a 
pen or your scissors or whatever and um something a chopstick where work something 
to help you pack each um each arm of your star and it doesn’t have to be super 
stuffed you just don’t want it to um collapse which it will if it doesn’t have 
anything in it but I mean it doesn’t have to be like bursting at the seams you 
know it just needs a little bit of help so okay this is working well so I’m 
just putting in little wedges of about one to two in and sort of three in long and that 
seems to be working well for a six-pointed star now obviously a five-pointed star is going to be 
a little bit fatter um than a sixo this one’s a little more flat so uh you may want a little bit 
more in the middle for a five-pointed star um anyway like I said there’s no hard and 
fast rules here just do what feels good to you as you can see it’s really not very 
scientific at all and what I’m going to do for the last one I’m gonna zip up one side 
and then I’m going to stuff it and then I’ll zip up the other side um and then I will show 
you how to uh finish off the center so if you have only five pieces you can probably just 
close it up and it’s not going to be that noticeable but if you have six crystals in 
the middle I think you’re probably going to need to add something in the middle to uh cover 
the holes so that you don’t see the stuffing um so let me finish this and then I’ll come back 
okay so I zipped up um the back side and I’m just putting my last piece of stuffing 
into my star on the front and you just kind of have to use brute force and just kind 
of hold it in place while you’re zipping up um so I’ll just continue my zipping on the front here it shouldn’t take too long I want to make sure that 
that Crystal pops pops out on the front and I think these little accent crystals 
on the end look really cute once you’ve gone over the top um and I’ll show you how I 
on my previous one um did the hanger so I actually beaded like through the side here 
and I made a loop like that so that it would hang straight um so that’s what I recommend that 
you do to put on a hanger is put a loop of beads um I did a double loop I did three I did an 80 
and then three um 11s and 80 31s and I went all the way around and then I went through the 80 then 
added three more 11s through the existing AO so um that’s how I did it obviously you don’t have to do 
that um if you wanted to you could even just sew a ribbon or something on depending on how you want 
it to be right so let me finish zipping this up anyway these make great little gifts for people 
um teacher neighbors anybody that you feel like you want to give them something um you know and 
they feel special because you handmade it uh so you know it’s it’s nice and you can customize it 
your colors you could do a Halloween one if you wanted some people have trees for all different 
holidays nowadays so um I think it would be fun if where you had the green bit this bit if you 
did black and white stripe right here I got weird tension I’m going to have to go back 
and reinforce that um okay and then at the very end you have to sew into the next Crystal 
over once you’ve gone through your bottom green just to close that up okay so as you can see my 
stuffing is poking out the front so I am going to have to do something um put something there 
so what the first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to sew around all six of the center 
crystals on this side and I’m going to try and poke that in a bit better there we 
go okay so once you’ve zipped all of your bits together go ahead and go all the way 
around that Central That central circle of six crystals and you know how the crystals 
were not sitting straight when we first put them on this will this 
will get them all to line up nicely and just keep your other thread whatever 
other threads you have um out of the way for now okay so there’s my little um central circle 
and yes I can see a little bit of stuffing in there now if that doesn’t bother you that’s fine 
if you wanted to add a another Crystal which I think is what I’m going to do you can do that so 
so I’m just going to add one more 3 mm Crystal um so I’m just coming out from one of them and 
I am going to pick up my crystal and I’m going to go through the three on this side and then I’m 
going to go up the middle and then I’m going to go through the three on that side up the middle okay 
so just find where the middle is if you have five uh obviously you would go in into one of the 
if you’re coming out from this Crystal you’ll go into you’ll skip two and you’ll come back up 
and you’ll go through you’ll skip two and you’ll come back up if you have only five but because 
I have six I can go through three on each side I’m actually thinking I’m going to add a red 
one here because you can’t see it and I think it looks weird so I’m going to have to pull this 
out okay second attempt let’s see how a red one looks yeah that’s much nicer okay okay so I got my crystal sewn over my hole and uh 
I’m going to go up this way so I can just tighten that bit there um and do the same thing on the 
other side and then once you’ve done that you can start to tie in all your threads and when 
I say tie we’re not really going to tie we’re just going to maybe you might want to run up 
here reinforce and then run through some of the stitching and eventually just cut it off 
cuz it’s not going to come undone once you’ve kind of gone up and down and around and about so 
you’re going to tie all of your odd ends off and then if you want to make a hanging Loop you can 
do that um and really that’s that’s all it is um so yeah five or six pointed star same concept 
and um adding in your own color of crystals so um I’ll come back and show you the finished 
product okay and then just before I tie in my threads I’m going to do one last step so see 
how these um beads are often rather far apart so what I’m going to do is I’m coming out from 
one of the crystals and I’m just going to go up into the bead on this side and then I’m going 
to go down the first green bead on the next row and that’s see how pulled that in together 
more then I’m just going to go up the next one keep that thread out of the way and then 
I’m going to go down the next one and I’m just going to do that all the way around in 
order to help uh just pull those Central 11 those together a little bit better and 
then you can just tie in your threads okay okay so I finally tied off all of my threads 
and you guys can see how cute it came out I think it is uh really nice with the six points I’m glad 
that I added that extra point in uh I just need to put a hanger on and I need to think about what I 
want to do for that um but anyway I hope you guys have fun making these and you know do experiment 
maybe try and do one with instead of these little accents you know try like an accent Diamond around 
your B cone or you know just play around see what you come up with I would love to see your makes so 
if you’re not in my faceb Facebook group um I’ll put a link for that down below would love to have 
you join it otherwise you can tag me on Facebook or on Instagram um @js and Rose uh so that’s @js 
and D for and Rose all one word okay all right you guys thank you so much for watching and I 
will see you in the next video take care bye

Make a cute beaded star with sparkly crystal bicones to give as gifts or to decorate a wreath or holiday tree! You can make your star with either 5 or six points – the method is the same.

Chapters:

0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:52 Materials
0:05:49 Start your first warped square
0:18:54 Row 9 – start your shaping
0:22:50 Embellish your warped square
0:27:00 Tie in your starting tail
0:28:30 Join your pieces together
0:41:06 Frequently Asked Questions
0:45:15 Stuffing your star

Materials:

4mm crystal bicones – Garnet Opal
https://www.potomacbeads.com/beads/crystals/208197?affid=571564

3mm crystal bicones – Dark Moss Green
https://www.potomacbeads.com/beads/crystals/230512?affid=571564

11/0 Miyuki Delica Beads – Galvanized Silver (DB-0035)
https://www.potomacbeads.com/seed-beads/delica-beads/miyuki-size-11-0/db0035-galvanized-silver?affid=571564

11/0 Miyuki Round Beads – Silver lined Ruby (11-11)
https://www.potomacbeads.com/brands/miyuki/miyuki-seed-beads-silver-lined-ruby-11-0?affid=571564

11/0 Miyuki Round Beads – Silver lined Green(11-16)
https://www.potomacbeads.com/brands/miyuki/miyuki-seed-beads-silver-lined-green-11-0?affid=571564

11/0 Miyuki Round Beads – Galvanized Metallic Sea Green (11-4215)
https://www.potomacbeads.com/brands/miyuki/miyuki-seed-beads-duracoat-galvanized-sea-green-11-0?affid=571564

Wildfire Thread in Frost
https://www.potomacbeads.com/wire-stringing/beading-thread/wildfire-beading-thread–beige-.006-50-yd-spool?affid=571564

Size 10 Beading Needle
https://www.potomacbeads.com/tools-supplies/beading-needles/beadtec-beading-needles-sizes-10-11-12-mix-pack-of-6?affid=571564

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