Cabochons

My guilty pleasure: I love, love, love cabochons, and bead embroidery. There's something magical about how the stone is surrounded by beads and stones of different shapes, sizes, and colors. In the past, I've made cabochon necklace with just one focal stone, such as these two examples:

But this time, I decided to go for it and see what I could do with a small arrangement of stones. To be correct, this wasn't something I had in mind doing until while wandering my neighborhood bead store I came across some beautiful amazonite cabochons at a decent price. The consistency and richness of the color was too beautiful to refuse, so I decided to buy not just one, but three.

The most wonderful part about in-person bead shopping is you get to see how the colors work with your own eyes at that very instant. So there, I went, buying all the materials I could think of needing.

That was three days ago. Here is the finished product, sans clasp.

Something new this time around too is the style of the bezel I have on the cabochons. The original how-to book I read called for the style of the first two, but the raise on these stones was very high so it made more sense to perform a peyote stitch.

I hope you enjoy my piece! Next post I will show the end result of the herringbone stitch necklace!