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Monday, January 27, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Bear
We receive a lot of requests to make a series of tutorials on weaving beaded 3-D forest animals. In fact, there already are a few products at our site that make up such a series, for example, a hare, a hedgehog, a squirrel, a bullfinch, an owl and a reindeer. In order to make this series more or less complete, we should make a bear, a wolf and a fox. So we will gradually make them, and today we’ll start with a bear.
We will need:
- seed beads #8 of brown, white and black colors;
- wire 0.3 mm in diameter;
- thin nylon line and a needle for cross-linking of finished figure.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Sprockets
Today we will make beaded sprocket. It is an original but simple beaded product.
We will need:
- Czech seed beads; I made a few monochrome sprockets out of seed beads #8 of yellow, light-blue and light-green colors, but you can make them multicolored,
- nylon line 0.25 mm in diameter and two needles for beadweaving (as usual, you can do with only one needle).
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Snowman in brick stitch
Today we will make one more beaded product of “winter” series - a snowman. It is a simple product that can be made rather quickly if you have some experience of weaving in brick stitch. This snowman, for example, can be used as a Christmas decoration.
We will need:
- seed beads of six colors; I used the seed beads #8 of white, green, brown, blue, orange and black colors,
- nylon line 0.25 mm in diameter and two needles for weaving (as usual, you can do with only one needle).
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Christmas wreath with fir cones, bells and a horse
We continue our "winter" series of beading. Today we will make a Christmas wreath of spruce branches with cones, bells and a symbol of the 2014 year - horse.
We will need:
- bugle beads # 3 of green color,
- seed beads #11: of green color for spruce branches and of yellow-brown and grey colors for cones,
- seed beads # 8: of yellow and orange colors for bells with a bow-knot and grey, brown and black colors for a horse,
- three beads 6 mm in diameter of garnet color,
- nylon line 0.25 mm in diameter and two needles for beadweaving (you can also do with only one needle),
- wire 0.3 mm in diameter (you can take a thinner wire for bells or use the same wire),
- thick aluminum or copper wire of about 2 mm in diameter for a base of the wreath,
- green thread for winding the wire.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Horse in brick stitch
As you know, 2014 is the year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac. We already have a tutorial of how to make a beaded 3-D horse at our site and today we will make another horse out of beads. For beading we will use the technique of brick stitch.
We will need:
- seed beads of three colors; I used the seed beads #8 of grey, brown and black colors,
- nylon line 0.25 mm in diameter (you can use a little more thin nylon line) and two needles for weaving (as usual, you can do with one needle only).