>Beaded Copper Exhaust Pipe

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Semi-beaded Buell X1 Lightning motorcycle. 10"wide x 6". Beadwork in progress. Click to enlarge.

Is it me, or does peyote stitch take forever? That's what I thought when I was beading the first exhaust pipe for my beaded motorcycle. Using copper size 11 seed beads, I worked peyote stitch around a piece of electrical cord. It's not stitched to the bike yet, because I want to see how it looks first. I also completed the tail lights, and I stitched some blue size 13 charlotte seed beads around the top of the fork tube... My first thought is that the copper pipe looks too big, but I'm not sure! Regardless, it looks pretty interesting so far! :D