By A. OakGrove

The following two illustrations demonstrate the difference between what a pattern looks like on graph paper and what it ultimately looks like when the pattern is executed on a loom with 11/o seed beads. This pattern is 45 beads wide and 45 beads long, which, technically, should be a square. However, seed beads are longer in one dimension than they are wide. When this pattern is made as a loom project the finished dimensions are 3 1/4 inches wide by 4 1/4 inches long. This is approximately a 3:4 ratio or, for every 3 inches of width there is 4 inches of length. (Again, many thanks to Leah Kramer for her Beadesigner program used to make the original design.) Please feel free to print these out if needed.

This is what the graph pattern looks like (square):

This is what the finished pattern will look like:

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