Beaded Gecko

tiny-sized

Posted by Candice C.

remember those beaded creatures ya made at camp, or wherever little kids do crafts...? this is the same thing but miniaturized!

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Gather up your stuff and decide on colors to use. You'll need 24 or so seed beads of your main body color and around 20 of the foot/belly color, and 2 for the eyes. You don't hafta use 2 different colors for the body... I just didn't have enough green. You can either match your floss to the color of your beads (which I couldn't) or just use something that sorta goes... You'll definitely need two needles, though.
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Separate your floss strands down to 2 and thread a needle on either side and thread up one of your body beads to the center.
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String up 2 more of the same beads on the right needle
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Go back through the beads the other way with the left needle
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Pull the left and right threads away from eachother until the beads sinch down to the middle bead
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Thread up an eye on either side of a body bead on the right needle
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Thread the left needle back through the beads on the right thread and sinch down like before
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Add 2 body beads the same way next, then 2 more.
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String a body bead, then 4 of the other color on the right needle
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With the SAME needle skip over the first 3 beads and thread back through the last two
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Sinch down towards the body of the gecko. Repeat on the other side with the left needle
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Follow this pattern until you reach the end of the tail and tie an overhand knot at the end.
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You can either leave the strings on and make a necklace or trim them off