I found a beading tutorial for a beautiful necklace, the St. Petersburg necklace.
Doesn’t only look wonderful but seems to be easy to make, but I have to try this yet ;-)
Links:
St.Petersburg Necklace
Additionally I found (but unfortunately I can’t remember how) a PDF-file with this tutorial: Stitch a St. Petersburg to make a lariat or necklace designed by Hatsumi Oshitani (PDF – ca 600 KB)