Green and Gold St. Petersburg Stitch Beaded Leaf Tutorial

St. Petersburg Stitch Beaded necklace 

St. Petersburg Stitch is yet another one of those beading stitches that is easy to learn. You can use this stitch with different bead shapes and sizes to make your own stunning handmade jewelry. This leaf is usually done in two halves, and then attached. However, you can simply do the two halves with the same length of wire and this will help reduce the amount of wire used. Below is the regular procedure for the beautiful beaded St. Petersburg Stitch Beaded Leaf. 

Materials:

1. 11/o seed beads (SB)

2. 6mm crystal rondelle beads (CR)

3. Two beading needles

4. 0.30mm monofilament thread

Procedure

1. Cut about 2, 27inches of the thread and thread them onto a needle each. Add a stop bead to their ends.

2. Keep one aside and with the other one, pick up six SB and slide down the thread

3. Pass needle through SBs 3 and 4 from down to up i.e. the two middle beads.

 

4. Pick another 1 SB and pass through the 4 SBs on the left from the top downwards.

5. Now, pick 1 CR and pass through the separate 2 seed bead at the right hand side from the down to the top. Pull tight.

6.  Pick another 4 SBs (will make 6 seed beads total when added to the two).

7. Pass back through the first two SB just picked up in step 6 from down to up (just like in step 3)

8. Pick another 1 SB and pass through the 4 SBs on the left from the top downwards like in step 4.

9. Pick 1 CR and pass through the separate 2 sand beads at the right hand side from the down to the top. Pull tight.

10. Repeat steps 6 to 8 till you have used a total of five CRs.

11. Now finally, Pick another 4 SBs and Pass back through the first two SB picked up. 

 12. Pick up one SB and pass through the four SBs

 11. Repeat steps 2 to 12 with the second needle. 

To join,

There are actually several ways to join, one way is as follows:

1. Pick up one wide SB (or two very medium ones) and cross both needles through the SB(s).

2. Pick two SBs with each needle and pass the needle up through the two separate beads.

3. Now pick up four beads with both needles.

4. Then pick up one SB with one needle and pass the needle back through the previous eight SBs, skipping the newly added SB

5. Pass the second needle through the same single SB added above and likewise pass the needle back through the previous eight SBs, skipping the newly added SB.

6. Pass your needles down through the five CR pass each needle back up through the opposite CRs.

7. Go back down and form the base as follows:

 





Different ways of forming the base:

St. Petersburg Stitch Beaded Leaf 

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