I've been playing some with freshwater pearls lately. I made the first, larger circle using cubic RAW, alternating cubes with triangular forms to get the curve you need to make a circle. My intent was for it to be the focal of a pendant. I didn't like how much thread showed. Part of the problem, I think, was that, because the pearls are quite a light gray, I used white fireline instead of black, and I think that was a mistake. The black would have disappeared into the shadows of the pearls better than the white. Still, in either color, there's a lot of thread. The second one was done (with black fireline) using the hexagon as a base, as I learned from the beaded molecules blog. It's smaller, but I like it much better. I like the openness of it. Also, if I were making a series of them for a necklace, which I probably will do, the weight is less (54 pearls instead of 65), which I prefer.
