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swirl hexatile pattern

5/6/2021

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I used this bead weaving pattern for Juicy Sunrise, Blue Star, Black Star, Honeymoon Panopticon, Oceanic Panopticon, and now I'm working on a sun panopticon. It's versatile. 
The center areas of the hexagon let the underlying color or mirror come through and I can use fewer beads. The small one of 42 beads takes about 12 minutes to make. The middle one with 90 beads takes about 23 minutes. Each size up is another layer out from the center.

I don't have a name for this piece yet. Maybe Goldilocks? I don't know. For now I'm doing a study on a 26" full dome mirror.

This is the pattern for the baby bear and mama bear tiles. Papa bear is just more of the same. I'm blogging this so I have a record of what pattern I used for what with instructions.

I'm using 4mm reflective acrylic miracle beads and size 6/0 glass seed beads to get the spiral design of the secondary pattern. If you don't want a secondary pattern, use one type of bead and ignore the R's and G's. R means "reflective" and G means "glass" to get this secondary pattern. Start with a 54" piece of thread on a beading needle. I like a three strands of waxed embroidery thread. I like to use lip balm for wax. (It tames the cotton fibers and reduces annoying kinking and knotting.) Use whatever you like. I only use embroidery thread for interior pieces. Use whatever you like.


Add G, R, G and make a knot.
Weave back through one of the yellows. (3 beads ring)
Add R, G
Weave through the middle previous G bead, then weave back through both of this R and G. (5 beads)
AddG, R
Weave back through previous G bead. (7 beads)
Add R, G
Weave back through previous G, then back through this R & G (9 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through previous G, then back through this G. (11 beads)
Add R
Weave back through first and last Gs to make a ring with 6 glass beads in the center and 6 reflective beads on the outside. Weave back again through this R.

This is your first hexagon ring. (12 beads)

Add R, G
Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (14 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through previous R, then back through this G and R. (16 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through previous R, then back through G. (18 beads)
Add R
Weave back through outside of nearest R on center ring and back up through this G. This closes the 2nd ring.  Weave back through R.  (19 beads)
Add R, G
Weave back through previous R then back through this R. (21 beads)
Add R, G
Weave back through previous R, then back through this R and G. Weave through nearest R on center ring. This closes the 3rd ring. (23 beads)
Add R
Weave back through previous G and R, then back through this R. (24 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through previous R, then back through this G and R. (26 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through previous R, then back through G) (28 beads)
Add R
Weave down into the nearest R on the center ring and back through previous G. Weave back through this R. This closes the 4th ring. (29 beads)
Add R, G
Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (31 beads)
Add R, G
Weave back through R and G. Weave through nearest R on center ring. This closes the 5th ring. (33 beads)
Add R
Weave back through previous G, R, then back through this R. (34 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through G and R. (36 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through previous R, then back through this G. (38 beads)
Add R
Weave through nearest R on center ring, then back through previous G and R. This closes the 6th ring. (39 beads)
Add R, G
Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (41 beads)
Add R
Weave through the adjacent Y, then back up through previous R and this R. This closes the 7th ring. (42 beads)

This is the baby bear hexatile. You can also make a heart shape by stopping after closing the third ring. (I used this for Honeymoon Panopticon.)

Now to complete the mama bear layer...

Add R, G
Weave back through previous R, then back through this R. (44 beads)
Add G, R
Weave back through previous R, then back through G and R. Weave through the nearest G on the baby bear row. This closes the 8th ring. (46 beads)
Add R
Weave back through previous R, then through G that closes the ring. Weave back through this R. (47 beads)
Add R, G
Weave back through previous R, then through this R, G. (49 beads)
Add G, G
Weave through previous Y, then back through second G. (51 beads)
Add R
Weave through nearest R on baby bear row, then back through previous G. Weave back through R. This closes the 9th ring. (52 beads)
Add R, G
Weave through previous R, then back through R. (54 beads)
Add R
Weave through G in the center, then back through previous R and this R. This closes the 10th ring. (55 beads)
Add G, R
Weave through previous R, then back through this G (57 beads)
Add G, G
Weave through previous G, then back through both this G, G. Weave through R on baby bear. This closes the 11th ring. (59 beads)
Add R
Weave through previous G, R, then through this R. (60 beads)
Add G, R
Weave through previous R and this G, R. Weave through G on baby bear. This closes the 12th ring. (62 beads)
Add R
Weave through previous R, G, then through this R. (63 beads)
Add R, G
Weave through previous R, then through R, G (65 beads)
Add G, G
Weave through previous G, then through nearest of these G's. (67 beads)
Add R
Weave through center R, then through previous G, R. This closes the 13th ring. (68 beads)
Add R, G
Weave through previous R, then through this R. (70 beads)
Add R
Weave through G on baby bear, through previous R and this R. This closes the 14th ring. (71 beads)
Add G, R
Weave through previous R, then through this G. (73 beads)
Add G, G
Weave through previous G, then through both G, G, then through R on baby bear. This closes the 15th ring. (75 beads)
Add R
Weave through previous G, R, then through this R. (76 beads)
Add G, R
Weave through previous R, then through  this G and R. Weave through G on baby bear. This closes the 16th ring. (78 beads)
Add R
Weave back through R, then weave through prev. G and this R. (79 beads)
Add R, G
Weave through previous R, then back through this R, G. (81 beads)
Add G, G
Weave through previous G, then through this Y (83 beads)
Add R
Weave through R on baby bear, then through previous G, then this R. This closes the 17th ring. (84 beads)
Add R, G
Weave through previous R, then back through this R. (86 beads)
Add R
Weave though G on baby bear, then through previous R, then this R. This closes the 18th ring. (87 beads)
Add G, R
Weave through previous R, then through this G. (89 beads)
Add G
Weave through the old G, then back through this G. This closes the 19th ring. (90 beads)
​Weave through several more beads then cut the thread.




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