Butterfly Beadwork Pattern for Loom or Square Stitch

Whether it's Spring, or you just wish it was, this cheery butterfly pattern is a quick beading square stitch project, especially for beginners. If you're more comfortable using a beading loom, the design will work for that too, but you will be tying in a lot more threads.

Have you tried square stitch beading before? If not, you may want to check out my square stitch tutorial before moving on to this project. This project assumes you know square stitch and focuses more on following a beadwork pattern and other techniques to create the finished pendant and necklace.

Square Stitch Beading Tutorial

Square stitch beading looks just like it was made on a beading loom

Square stitch is an off-loom bead-weaving stitch that looks like loom beadwork, with beads that are stacked both vertically and horizontally in rows and columns. Square stitch is perfect to make smaller beadwork components where it would be more time consuming to warp a loom and weave in multiple thread ends.