Highly Unlikely Dodecahedron in Bugle Beads and Crystal

I received a commission to make a highly unlikely dodecahedron, and after what seemed like a billion stitches, here it is.

 

A quick off-the-cuff estimate suggest that this piece contains around 3000 beads.  It's roughly the size of a baseball. Ten different colors of beads show the ten paths that twist and wrap around the surface.  Each path encircles one of the ten axes of 3-fold rotation symmetry of the dodecahedron. (Those axes go through opposite vertices of the dodecahedron so that the paths are like belts that twist around the equators of those axes.)

If you want to learn more about how I discovered this shape, check out my blog post on Highly Unlikely Triangles and Other Impossible Figures in Bead Weaving.  There, you can find a link to download the paper I presented at the Bridges Conference in 2015.

I don't have a tutorial for the dodecahedron, but I do have a tutorial for a related and simpler design, the Highly Unlikely Triangle, shown below with bugle beads, but you can also use just seed beads. Thanks for looking.