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I may have a problem, especially since I just bought 49 more colors of seed beads to make more of these. To give a sense of scale, this one above is the size of my palm in real life.



I have a lot of free time on my hands lately, so I've been making these stars. I use this pattern, make 5 points, then thread back through every other bead on the straight, backbone of the lace and pull it tight to get the piece to start to make a circle. I then sew up the two ends into a circle, add in a centerpiece bead and crimp the thread ends with a crimp bead.

I also adapted the pattern to make smaller stars, adding only 6 beads instead of 11 at the beginning, then using the pattern from there, except instead of 3 beads at the top I add four.