Beaded Rounded Heart Pattern

Welcome to the 3-D beaded rounded heart pattern instructions! If you have any difficulty following this tutorial, please post a comment at the bottom of the page on which you are stuck, and I'll do my best to help!

Step 1

Step 1 : Now I have said that we will be surrounding the inner circle of 5 small white seed beads that we have just created. But unlike the previous steps where we surrounded our first circle of 6 small white seed beads, we already have some beads existing in the pattern, so we'll use those as well as adding new ones. In our previous steps, there were no existing beads, and they were all new. So as our very first step here, we will be stringing through an existing bead in the pattern as we start to form our new surrounding circle of beads. Specifically, take the end of the fishing line depicted by the red arrow and string it through the large blue seed bead labelled with a yellow dot. Then, add the 4 new beads shown to the same end of the fishing line. The last bead to be added is labelled with a turquoise dot.

Step 2

Step 2 : This step is very simple. Just cross the last bead that was added (the large blue seed bead labelled with a turquoise dot) with both ends of the fishing line (specifically, string the end of the fishing line depicted by the black arrow through that bead, as shown in the picture).

Step 3

Step 3 : Now this step should be deja vu. We are doing the same repeating motions as before. So take the end of the fishing line depicted by the red arrow and string it through the small white bead labelled with a red dot. This bead is already in the pattern, so don't add a new bead! We are going through the inner circle of 5 white small seed beads in a clockwise direction, first green, then blue, then red, etc. To the other end of the fishing line, add the 4 new seed beads shown in the image (step 3). The last one to be added is the large blue seed bead labelled with a pink dot.

Step 4

Step 4 : This step is very simple! Again, as always, just cross the last bead that was added to the heart pattern with both ends of the fishing line! Specifically, take the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow and string it through the large blue seed bead labelled with a pink dot, as shown in the picture.

Step 5

Step 5 : Now we are already at the last step of surrounding the inner circle of 5 small white seed beads! So again, this step will be a bit different because we are going to be stringing through two existing beads rather than one, and adding only 3 new beads to the heart pattern, rather than four. So take the end of the fishing line depicted by the black arrow and string it through the small white bead labelled with a black dot, then through the large blue seed bead labelled with a yellow dot. Then, onto the same end of the fishing line, add the 3 new seed beads shown in the image. The last bead to be added is the small white seed bead labelled with the purple dot.