Keychain with Cancer (Zodiac sign)

We continue a series of keychains with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Cancer. For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch.
We will need:
- size 8/0 seed beads of eight colors; I used seed beads of light-yellow, gray, pink, brown, yellow, red, green and blue colors,
- nylon fishing line 0.25 mm thick and two beading needles (as usual in the brick stitch technique, if you wish you can do with only one needle).


I remind you that the basics of brick stitch beading technique you can learn from this tutorial.

The whole beadwork requires a long fishing line, so I recommend you to take a line of the convenient length (about 1 meter or so) and as soon as it becomes too short you should secure it, take a new line, weave it into the beadwork and continue weaving using this new segment of line.

Start weaving approximately at a distance of 25 cm from one of the ends of the line and at first make a single chain for the 1st row of the beadwork, consisting of 20 light-yellow beads.

For further weaving use only the longer end of the line. The shorter end of the line is not involved in weaving any more, so leave it alone for now. We will secure it at the final stage of weaving. If the needle on the shorter end of the line bothers you, you can take it off for now.

All the next rows weave using the technique of brick stitch. Please do not forget that at the beginning of the each row you should string on the needle two beads together, and all the other beads in the row add one by one. The direction of weaving the each new row is reversed.



Continue weaving using the following pattern:

2nd row: 3 light-yellow, 5 brown, 2 light-yellow, 1 pink, 2 light-yellow, 1 pink, 3 light-yellow, 1 gray, 2 light-yellow beads;
3rd row: 2 light-yellow, 2 gray, 1 light-yellow, 1 gray, 1 light-yellow, 1 pink, 2 light-yellow, 1 pink, 1 light-yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 2 brown, 2 light-yellow;
4th row: 2 light-yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 pink, 1 light-yellow, 2 pink, 1 light-yellow, 5 gray, 1 light-yellow;
5th row: 2 light-yellow, 5 gray, 2 light-yellow, 1 pink, 1 light-yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 2 brown, 1 light-yellow;
6th row: 2 light-yellow, 2 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 pink, 3 light-yellow, 4 gray, 2 light-yellow;
7th row: 3 light-yellow, 3 gray, 1 pink, 3 light-yellow, 1 pink, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 3 brown, 2 light-yellow;
8th row: 4 light-yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 2 brown, 4 pink, 6 light-yellow;
9th row: 10 light-yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 yellow, 2 brown, 4 light-yellow;
10th row: 6 light-yellow, 2 brown, 1 yellow, 2 brown, 9 light-yellow;
11th row: 6 light-yellow, 3 gray, 1 pink, 4 brown, 6 light-yellow;
12th row: 7 light-yellow, 1 pink, 1 light-yellow, 1 brown, 1 pink, 1 gray, 2 red, 1 gray, 5 light-yellow;
13th row: 5 light-yellow, 1 gray, 1 red, 1 gray, 1 red, 1 gray, 3 light-yellow, 1 pink, 3 gray, 3 light-yellow;
14th row: 3 light-yellow, 4 gray, 4 light-yellow, 1 green, 2 gray, 1 green, 5 light-yellow;
15th row: 5 light-yellow, 2 green, 1 light-yellow, 2 green, 3 light-yellow, 5 gray, 2 light-yellow;
16th row: 2 light-yellow, 5 gray, 3 light-yellow, 1 green, 1 blue, 2 green, 1 blue, 1 green, 4 light-yellow;
17th row: 5 light-yellow, 2 green, 1 light-yellow, 2 green, 4 light-yellow, 1 gray, 1 light-yellow, 2 gray, 2 light-yellow;
18th row: 3 light-yellow, 1 gray, 7 light-yellow, 1 green, 2 light-yellow, 1 green, 5 light-yellow;
19th row: 20 light-yellow beads.

Weaving is completed. Now attach a ring for keys to this beaded fabric in order to use it as a keychain.

After that secure the ends of the line. First, secure the working end of the line: pass it through several beads across the beadwork, then trim the excess line. Next, thread a needle on the starting tail of the line, weave it into the beadwork in the same manner and then trim.

The keychain is finished!

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