Welcome to the beaded cube bead diamond-shaped ring pattern instructions! If you have any difficulty following this tutorial, please post a comment at the bottom of the page on which you are stuck, and I'll do my best to help!
Step 1 : This is exciting. We are adding the seed beads into our ring in this step. This is a very easy step indeed. The picture shows you that you add the seed beads to the periphery (all around) first before going into the middle. The squiggly lines (black and red) are meant to show you that the fishing line comes out of the bugle bead, picks up a seed bead, then goes back into the next bugle bead. Just do this going all around the pattern with either or both ends of the fishing line (picking up seed beads and inserting them between the bugle beads). The directions of the red and black arrows going around the pattern in the picture show you that you can either surround the entire pattern using the red or black end alone, or you can use both and meet half-way on the other end of the pattern. It's up to you. I recommend using both because that way you will not end up with two different lengths of fishing line.
Step 2 : Now that the periphery is surrounded by seed beads, it's time to go into the centre of the pattern and add more. By the way, if you have trouble following how this is done, I explain these steps in much greater detail in the diamond-shaped ring pattern much more thoroughly, so check that out. Basically, follow the black arrow! You start by going through the short turquoise bugle bead to reach the centre, add a small gold seed bead, then go through the medium-length gold bugle bead, then add one more small gold seed bead, then go through another short turquoise bugle bead to get back out to the periphery. It's important to go back out to the periphery although it may be tempting to cut the corner after adding the 2nd gold seed bead (i.e. head through the medium length gold bugle bead to the left rather than through the short turquoise bugle bead). But don't cut corners! Your seed bead will be oriented in the wrong direction and it will be obvious. So just follow the black arrow to know where to go with the fishing line. To be clear, the only new beads to be added in this step are the 4 small gold seed beads marked by red dots. All other beads are already in the pattern.
Step 3 : This step is very easy!! All I am showing you here is that the base of the ring is now done, so I placed the blue cube bead (that I intend to place in the centre of the ring) into the pattern for fun to see what it would look like. Looks good! Of note is the fact that you can either make this ring diamond-shaped or square on your finger. This picture shows you what it would look like if you used it in the square orientation. I personally prefer it as a diamond-shaped ring because this shape makes the finger look more slender, whereas square rings make fingers look fatter!
Step 4 : In this step, we start to add the cube into our design! So the key is to get the ends of the fishing line into the medium-length gold bugle beads that line the centre of the pattern. You must get them into two gold bugle beads OPPOSITE to each other. It doesn't matter which two, just as long as they are opposite/parallel to each other. In this picture, I show you one of the two ends of the fishing line (depicted by a red arrow) coming out of one of the 4 gold bugle beads (marked by the blue dot). This bead was randomly chosen. But, now that it has been chosen, the other end of the fishing line must then be coming out of the golden bugle bead marked by the turquoise dot, which is parallel/opposite to it. So, with the end of the fishing line depicted by a red arrow, pick up the cube bead. Then, as it says in the picture, flip over the pattern. You are going to be attaching the cube bead via the underside of the pattern so the fishing line won't show from above.
Step 5 : Here we are after the flip. So now the ring is upside-down. Just pull the fishing line tight out of the bugle bead on the underside. You may well have noticed that the colours of the ring have changed completely! This is because the purple and turquoise ring was the first one I ever made and I wasn't sure how best to attach the cube bead to it, so I tried several methods and after one of them was successful, I didn't want to undo it. So I just made another ring (the red one) in order to take pictures of this process. Anyways, not much has changed in this step except the key is that the ring is upside-down now and the fishing line is pointing more to where it is going to be going. More on that in the next step.
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