Needlework WiP: "VS 4 Elements: Air" Band 5

This was a deceptively simple looking band. 

Withdrawing the threads for the drawn thread work was simple - just two sets of two.  But take a close look at how they are gathered - every OTHER set is hemstitched, the alternate sets are left free and then pin stitched two threads below the openwork area.  I could not get into a rhythm and had to look at the stitch diagram for every repeat.  Then when attaching the beads, I had to turn the work over with every bead to run threads though the circling stitches above and below so that the beading thread wouldn't show through the open areas between the beads.  

Very fiddley, but effective.