beading... czech pressed glass daggers and st petersburg stitch

[stormyseasons]

Had a stressful day at the day job. Staring at bead stash when I got home, randomly thinking of what to do. Flipped through some of my beading reference material.... saw some interesting ideas on how to use Miyuki Tilas, but I just got those and I'd like to make some headway on turning my stash into pretty and potentially useful objects of art. So, no, not using Tilas.... and then I see this project that uses St Petersburd stitch, where the thread path is printed out in a cross-section diagram.. and it's like a bell goes ding in my head. Of course. St Petersburg stitch even has that obligatory turn around that would go very nicely for threading on daggers.

Out comes the bead mat, the seed beads, the needles, the size D nymo in neutral colours, the scissors... the several packets of daggers waiting for a good idea. Off to bead something interesting!