Beading for the very beginners: 2013

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Conifer cones

We continue our "winter" series of beading. Today we will make a conifer branch with cones.
We will need:
- size 11 seed beads: I used seed beads of yellow-brown and grey colors for cones and light-green color for needles;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- brown thread for winding the branches.

Keychain with Sagittarius (Zodiac sign)

The current year comes to its end and also comes to an end our series of keychains with zodiac signs. Every month throughout 2013 we did one keychain with the zodiac sign of the month. Today is the turn of Sagittarius, it is the last keychain in the series.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of nine colors; I used the seed beads of white, green, light-blue, pink, brown, red, dark-blue, brown-green (Khaki) and grey colors,
- nylon line 0.25 mm thick (you can also use thiner nylon line) and two beading needles (as usual, you can do with one needle only).
For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch.

Snowflake of beads and bugles

Today we begin another "winter" series of beading. The first product in the series will be a snowflake out of seed beads and bugle beads. It can be a beautiful Christmas decoration for your home as well as a perfect gift to your friends and family.
We will need:
- size 10 seed beads of two colors (I used white and grey colors);
- six seed beads of a large size (I used size 5 seed beads of an amber color);
- size 3 bugle beads (I used silver color);
- 140 cm of wire 0.3 mm thick.

For making a beaded autumn birch we need:
- size 11 seed beads of a golden color;
- wire 0.2 mm thick for basic weaving;
- aluminum or copper wire 1.5-2 mm thick for the base of big branches and a trunk of the tree;
- white thread for winding the branches and trunk;
- black felt pen for painting the birchbark;
- a pot into which we’ll place the tree.

Today we will make a horse out of beads. It can be a perfect New Year gift to your family and friends as the Horse is the sign of the coming 2014 year in the Chinese zodiac.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of three colors; I used light-yellow, grey and black colors;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- thin fishing line and a needle for cross-linking of finished figure.

Today we will make a beaded guitar that can be used as a keychain. For making it we will use the technique of square stitch. We have already used this bead weaving technique for making an Easter Egg.
For making a beaded guitar we will need:
- size 10 seed beads of four colors (I used seed beads of brown, light-beige, black and yellow colors),
- nylon thread and a beading needle,
- a piece of thin plastic or pasteboard that will be used as a gasket between two guitar decks.

Today we will make a goldfish out of beads.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of three shades of yellow-orange colors (I used pink-orange, bright-orange and yellow colors);
- two size 8 seed beads of black color;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- thin fishing line and a needle for cross-linking of the finished item.

To make a heart in the beading technique of cubic right angle weave (CRAW) we will need:
- size 8 seed beads of red color,
- nylon fishing line 0.3 mm thick and one or two beading needles (depends on the stringing method you are going to use).

Jellyfish

To make a jellyfish out of beads we need:
- size 8 seed beads of two colors (I used two shades of orange color),
- size 6 seed beads of one color (I used an amber color),
- 90 cm of wire 0.2 mm thick.

To make a beaded narcissus we need:
- seed beads of white, yellow and green colors (I used size 8 seed beads to get a big flower, but you may use smaller seed beads, for example, #10 size),
- wire 0.3 mm thick,
- green thread for stem winding.

To make a beaded swan we need:
- size 11 seed beads of three colors: white, black and red;
- wire 0.2 mm thick,
- thin fishing line and a needle for cross-linking of the finished item.

To make a beaded lily of the valley we need:
- size 11 seed beads of white, yellow and green colors,
- wire 0.2 mm thick,
- more thicker wire for the base of the flower’s stem (I used a wire of 0.45 mm in diameter),
- green thread for stem winding.

To make a beaded doll-girl we need:
- size 8 seed beads of green, yellow and white colors,
- one 10 mm round bead of a light color (I used a bead of light-golden color, but you may take just a white bead),
- wire 0.2 mm thick.

Today we will make another beaded jewelry product - a ring with an image of a heart. For weaving we will use the technique of brick stitch.
We will need:
- size 11 seed beads of three colors; I used seed beads of light-yellow, orange and red colors,
- nylon fishing line 0.2 mm thick and two beading needles (as usual in the brick stitch technique, you can also do with one needle only).

To make a beaded trinket that looks like a pencil, we need:
- size 8 seed beads of yellow, orange and white colors,
- size 11 seed beads of white and black colors,
- fishing line 0.2 mm thick,
- one or two beading needles (depends on the weaving method).

To make beaded calla flowers we need:
- size 11 seed beads of white, yellow and green colors,
- wire 0.3 mm thick,
- more thicker wire (0.4-0.5 mm) - to strengthen the flowers’ stems,
- green thread for stem winding.

For making a beaded weeping willow we need:
- size 11 seed beads of light-green color;
- wire 0.2 mm thick for basic weaving;
- aluminum or copper wire 1.5-2 mm thick for the base of branches and a trunk of the tree;
- grey-brown thread for winding the branches and the trunk;
- a pot into which we’ll place the tree.

Easter Egg beaded in the technique of brick stitch

Today we will make one more beaded Easter Egg. This Egg can be an original Easter gift. For making it we will use the technique of brick stitch.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads, I used seed beads of orange, green, yellow and light-blue colors for the middle part of the egg with illustration and besides that seed beads of light-green and light-lilac colors for the tops of the egg,
- wooden or plastic egg, I used the egg of 55 mm in height and 40 mm in diameter,
- nylon thread and two beading needles.

Easter Egg beaded in the square stitch technique

Today we will make one more beaded Easter Egg. For making it we will use the square stitch bead weaving technique. This technique is very simple, but is quite time-consuming for implementing, because the egg is completely covered with beads and the beads are plaited in one by one. But this technique allows you to get neat rows of beads that lie one above the other and you can make a variety of patterns on the resulting canvas. However, for the first time we’ll do without patterns and just braid the egg by colored rows of beads.
We will need:
- size 11 seed beads, I used seed beads of five colors: orange, yellow, green, purple and pink,
- wooden or plastic egg,
- nylon thread and a beading needle.

Today we will make an Easter Egg decorated with beads in the netting technique. It will be an original Easter gift that you may give to friends and family.
We will need:
- size 11 seed beads of two colors (I used yellow and brown colors),
- wooden or plastic egg,
- nylon thread and a beading needle (instead of a nylon thread you can take a fishing line 0.2 mm in diameter).

Whale in the parallel weaving technique

Today we will make a small flat whale. It is a very simple product and it can be used for the very first steps in beading by the beginners.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of blue, white and black colors,
- 90 cm of wire 0.2 mm thick.

Today we will make a small flat leopard. It is a very simple product and it’s perfect for beading tutorials for children.
We will need:
- size 10 seed beads of yellow, brown, black, white and pink colors,
- 70 cm of wire 0.2 mm thick.

Today we will make a small flat bear. It is a very simple product and it can be easily made by children.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of brown, black and white colors,
- wire 0.2 mm thick.

Today we will make a very simple beaded product - an elephant. It can be used for the very first steps in beading by the beginners.
We will need:
- size 11 seed beads of four colors: light-blue, blue, white and black,
- wire 0.2 mm thick.

Orchid

To make a beaded orchid we need:
- size 11 seed beads of white, lilac, orange and green colors,
- 10 mm round beads of golden color,
- wire 0.2 mm thick for flowers and 0.3 mm thick for leaves,
- aluminum or copper wire 1 mm thick for the base of the stem,
- a paper napkin (it is used as a filler to a flower's bud),
- green thread for stem winding.

To make a beaded peacock we need:
- size 10 seed beads of nine colors: brown and dark-green for body, orange for claws and beak, black and beige for eyes, light-green, yellow, blue and purple for tail;
- size 3 grey bugle beads (instead of bugle beads you can take seed beads of grey or white color);
- 6 mm white round beads;
- wire 0.2 mm thick. Choosing a wire, check out that it could pass through the dark-green beads 6 times, otherwise take a thiner wire or beads with bigger hole;
- thin fishing line and a needle for cross-linking of finished object.

To make a cactus out of beads we need:
- size 11 seed beads of four colors: green, light-green, orange and beige,
- wire 0.2 mm thick.
Our cactus consists of a few components, each of which we make using the French beading technique. The detailed description of this beading technique you can see in the tutorial on gladiolus.

Today we will make a small flat penguin. It is a very simple product and it’s perfect for beading tutorials for children. Being made, this penguin can be used, for example, as a magnet on a refrigerator.
We will need:
- size 10 seed beads of four colors: blue, white, yellow and black,
- 70 cm of wire 0.2 mm thick.

For making beaded snowdrops we need:
- size 10 seed beads of three colors: white, light green and dark green;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- green thread for winding the stems;
- a basket or a vase into which we’ll place the bouquet.

We continue a series of trinkets with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Libra.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of four colors; I used the seed beads of white, turquoise, brown-green (Khaki) and blue colors,
- 0.25 mm fishing line (you can use a little more thin fishing line) and two beading needles (as usual, you can do with one needle only).
For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch.

We continue a series of trinkets with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Virgo.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of eight colors; I used the seed beads of white, bright-yellow, light-yellow, dark-green, light-green, blue, brown and red colors,
- fishing line 0.25 mm in diameter and two beading needles (as usual, you can do with one needle only).
For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch.

We continue a series of keychains with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Lion (or Leo as a zodiac sign). For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch, but in a more complicated version than before: our Lion will be a separate figure, with no background.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of six colors; I used seed beads of yellow, orange, grey, pink-grey, red and blue colors,
- nylon line 0.25 mm in diameter and two beading needles (as usual, for basic weaving we will need only one needle, and if you can weave the first row without the second needle, you can do without it at all).

Keychain with Gemini (Zodiac sign)

We continue a series of keychains with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Gemini. For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch.
We will need:
- size 8/0 seed beads of eight colors; I used seed beads of light-yellow, green, light-blue, pink, brown, red, blue and black colors,
- nylon fishing line 0.25 mm in diameter and two beading needles (as usual, you can also do with one needle only).

We continue a series of keychains with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Taurus.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of seven colors; I used light-yellow, grey, pink-grey, blue, brown, black and red colors,
- nylon fishing line (0.2 mm thick) and a beading needle;
- a small piece of steel wire 0.5 mm thick (I used a straightened paper clip).

We continue a series of trinkets with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Aries.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of five colors; I used the seed beads of white, dark-blue, yellow, brown and black colors,
- fishing line 0.25 mm in diameter and two beading needles (you can take only one needle because the second needle is used only at the initial stage, and this stage can be carried out without needles at all).
For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch.

We continue a series of keychains with zodiac signs. Today is the turn of Pisces.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of four colors; I used seed beads of blue, orange, yellow and grey colors,
- nylon line of 0.25 mm in diameter and two beading needles (you can take only one needle because the second needle is used only at the initial stage, and this stage can be carried out without needles at all).

We will use a beading technique, which we hasn’t met before at our site - the brick stitch. In this bead weaving technique individual beads are stacked upon each other as bricks in a brick wall.

We continue a series of keychains with zodiac signs in peyote stitch. Today is the turn of Aquarius.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of five colors: white, light blue, dark blue, brown and yellow;
- nylon fishing line (0.2 mm thick) and a beading needle;
- stiff wire 0.5 mm thick (approx. 10 cm long; I used an unbent paper clip).

To make a beaded cat we need:
- size 10 seed beads of four colors: brown, beige, orange and green;
- wire 0.2 mm in diameter;
- thin fishing line and a needle for cross-linking of finished object.

To make a beaded hummingbird we need:
- size 10 seed beads of four colors: blue, green, yellow and black;
- wire 0.2 mm in diameter;
- thin fishing line and a needle for cross-linking of finished object.

To make a beaded hyacinth we need:
- size 11 seed beads of blue, dark-lilac, yellow, light-green and dark-green colors,
- wire 0.3 mm in diameter.

Today we will make one more dragon out of beads. This little dragon is more simple than the big one.
We will need:
- seed beads #11 of three colors; I used green, golden and black colors;
- 1 meter of wire 0.2 mm in diameter.

To make a beaded 3-D dragon we need:
- seed beads #11 of four colors: blue, red, orange and black;
- wire 0.2 mm in diameter,
- thin fishing line and a needle for cross-linking of finished object.

We continue making furniture items out of beads. Today we will make a sofa.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads; I used seed beads of green, blue and yellow colors;
- 1 meter of wire 0.3 mm in diameter.

For making a beaded rowan tree we need:
- size 11 seed beads of green and red colors;
- wire 0.2 mm in diameter for basic weaving;
- a small segment (about 15-20 cm) of thick aluminum or copper wire of 2 mm in diameter for a trunk of the tree;
- brown thread for winding the branches and trunk;
- a pot into which we’ll place the tree.

Today we will make a dollar sign using the technique of cubic right angle weave (CRAW). This technique you can learn from the tutorials that are placed here (weaving using double thread stringing method) or here (weaving using single thread stringing method).

For making a beaded maple we need:
- seed beads #11; I used seed beads of four colors: green, orange, yellow and light-brown, but you may take any colors in green-yellow and red-yellow shades;
- wire 0.2 mm in diameter for basic weaving;
- a small segment (about 15 cm) of thick aluminum wire of 2 mm in diameter for a trunk of the tree;
- brown thread for winding the branches and trunk.

Today we will learn the beading technique of cubic right angle weave (CRAW). For weaving we will use a fishing line with one needle, so it will be a single thread stringing method of CRAW.

We will need:
- beads (you can use beads of almost any type and size, but for beginners I recommend to take seed beads of a large size; I used size 8 seed beads of two colors, green and blue);
- nylon fishing line and a beading needle (I used fishing line 0.3 mm thick).

Today we will learn not a beaded product, but a technique of beading - we will make a beaded rope in the technique of cubic right angle weave (CRAW).
This rope can be woven from beads of any size, but for beginners I recommend to take seed beads of a large size.
So we will need:
- seed beads #8 of two colors (I used light blue and yellow colors),
- thin fishing line and two needles for weaving.

To make a gladiolus out of beads we need:
- seed beads #11 of pink, lilac, white and green colors,
- wire 0.3 mm in diameter,
- more thicker wire (0.4-0.5 mm in diameter) - for the base of the flower’s stem,
- green thread for stem winding.

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