Advancing Moon Phases

The phases have their peyote stitched bezels.  The full moon is stitched with silver lined crystal beads at the base and white seed beads at the top. The waxing and waning phases are stitched with silver lined gray beads on the white side and silver lined black beads on the black side.  The tops are white and black beads.

After stitching around the faces the stiff backing was trimmed and the faces were attached to the black backing material that makes up the base of the bracelet.  The base will be fully stitched with beads.  A few rounds have been stitched and I hope to finish up the beading tomorrow.

There is more material here than will be in the finished bracelet.  I've found out from experience that the material tends to draw up as you stitch so I left some extra around the edges.  When it's fully stitched it will measure about 7 inches long.