A couple of years ago I met the incredibly talented and lovely Olga Dillow and she taught me this simple yet delicate chain stitch. At the time I was unaware that it is called the St. Petersburg stitch, as Olga spoke mainly Russian and I did not. She does have great communication and teaching skills and taught me quite a bit in a short amount of time. Actually, her beadwork inspired me so much, I lay some of the blame of my descent into beadweaving madness onto her.
Anyway, I knew that I wanted to use these beautiful Indicolite colored seed beads I recently picked up. Jet AB faceted fire-polished Czech glass beads seemed like the way to go for the larger middle beads.
Here is the finished bracelet, which I have listed in my Etsy shop, Room3designs.
The technique I used for this bracelet is the double stitch St. Petersburg chain. There is also the single stitch and other variations. If you are interested in learning this stitch, I found some great tutorials around the web, or you may contact me.
