I attached little magnets to the back and turned beaded figures into useful things: a convinient tool to hold little paper notes on a refrigerator. Also a nice gift for drivers.
Use brick stitch technique for this work. If you don't know it - search in a books, Carol Wells "Creative Bead Weaving" works fine both as beginner's "bible" and a source of insrpiration for experienced beaders.
Below You'll see the patterns for triangle and round signs. I would reccomend to start from the widest row, decreasing beads in row usually goes easier then increasing.
