Thanks everyone for the excellent advice. I'm gonna print off everyone's instructions and put them in a folder so I can reference them as I bead.
Backing?! Ow, Lord, no wonder my rosettes look awful. Iwas supposed to use backing!
(Beating head against monitor) stu-pid stu-pid stu-pid
Atoka
PS
Maybe a better question would be, how do I make a rosette?