After posting a bunch of mandala like patterns as my user picture on Facebook for the last couple weeks of 2010, and drawing on in my graphics program on the first day of 2010, I thought a tutorial for graphing these fun patterns would be nice.
Here's the latest article from the Beadwork site at BellaOnline.com.

Graphing Patterns - Mandalas
How to graph a mandala like flat peyote pattern, including blank graph paper and several patterns.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art70338.asp

You can see the mandala I drew for New Year's as a coloring page at my blog here.
http://www.donteatthepaste.com/2011/01/mandalas-coloring-pages.html

And I posted this bead project for wire workers in my blog.
http://www.donteatthepaste.com/2011/01/delicate-wire-and-chain-earrings.html

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