Peyote ruffle?

I have seen a cute peyote ruffle on several bracelet designs lately. Can anyone tell me how to?

Thanks, Shirley

 Hi Shirley,

Ruffles are created when you increase consistently. 

Row 1: Work a row adding two beads in each stitch instead of one.

Row 2: Work the next row in regular peyote.

You can keep doing this until the ruffle is as full as you want.

Hope it helps.

I just learned something new, again! Thanks for asking, and thanks for answering.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

 I've seen these too and they are pretty cool.

Mikki335:

Ruffles are created when you increase consistently. 

Now Mikki could you tell me how to increase/decrease in peyote or anyone else? I know peyote but have no clue how to increase and decrease. There are a few things I want to do with beadweaving, simple stuff, but I need to know how to do these things first.

When you're making an increase (mid-row), it's basically adding 2 beads instead of one between your "up" beads.  When you do the next row, you would add another bead between the 2 beads you added during the previous row.

For a decrease, you are skipping adding a bead between your "up" beads, and pulling the thread tight to close up the gap.

Here is a tutorial with pics from about.com.  Hope that helps!

Jeni, that's a really good description of increasing and decreasing!

You can also get a ruffle by increasing the size of your beads.  Maybe start with a couple rows of 15/0 for your base, then stitch the next couple of rows with 11/0, then a couple rows with 8/0, then a couple rows with 6/0...

There's another tip for increasing and decreasing: if you make peyote with (ir)regular seedbeads and not with delicas, you can increase by putting a "fat" bead in the place where you want to increase or putting a "thin" bead in the place where you want to decrease. I hope that wasn't too confusing!

 Thanks for filling in for me where I stopped short :)

Some excellent additions and I use all of them...lol.  Kokopelli....absolutely...that's one thing the irregular beads are good for...the thin and the thick. I also use a #15 bead in between the two of the increase as it can close the gap that is sometimes created.

And absolutely changing sizes works if you don't like increasing.  I think changing sizes of beads is a great thing for everyone to try...that's how I discovered the urchin/wave effect, I was just playing with my seeds increasing and decreasing sizes.

Thanks so much to everyone for the wonderful advice. Thanks Jeni for the link. I did check it out, but there were more words than I could absorb in the explanation! I will post the result soon so you can see how well I followed advice! :) 

It is really so encouraging to have so many experts ready to help. Thank you again to everyone.

Shirley