Beading: Surrounded cabachon

This project came in a kit.  The kit instructions were next to useless.  This was hard to figure out but once mastered easy to make.  It took a lot of "frogging" before I finally came up with techniques that would work.
Here is generally how to make this thing:
glue cab down to a hard stiff material (stiff stuff).
sew a base of beads around the cab.
make a wall around the cab using peyote stitch.
using smaller beads sew rows around the cab and reduce at the corners.
cut the stiff stuff close to the sewn base beads.
cover the bottom edge with a fringe of your choice.

The instructions did not include describing how to reduce at the corners or how to peyote stitch or how to start/produce a row of smaller beads.  Everything was guess work and I don't remember what I did and probably can't reproduce it.  Very detailed instructions are needed to make one of these. 

I have seen other examples where large beads are used on top but I have no idea how they did that and got it to hug the top of the cab

The stings can be unhooked and cab worn pinned as it has a pin on the back.

Keep beading
patty