Pages

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Snowflake of bugles

Snowflake out of bugles

Today we will make another snowflake of beads and bugles.
We will need:
- size 3 bugle beads (I used bugle beads of light blue color);
- size 10 seed beads (I used seed beads of light green color);
- larger size seed beads (I used seed beads #8 of light blue color);
- wire 0.3 mm thick.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Carnation

Beaded carnation

For making a beaded carnation we need:
- size 8 seed beads of red and green colors,
- wire 0.3 mm thick,
- green thread for winding the stem of the flower.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Chicken family

Chicken family beaded in the square stitch technique

Today we will learn how to make a mother hen for the young chicken that we made earlier.
To make this hen I used:
- Czech seed beads of #8 size of four colors: white, red, black and grey-pink;
- transparent pink sequins of 6 mm in diameter;
- wooden egg (you can also use a plastic egg);
- nylon line of 0.2 mm in diameter and a needle for beading.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Young chicken

Young chicken beaded in the square stitch technique

To make a beaded young chicken we will need:
- Czech seed beads of three colors: yellow (of #10 size), red (also of #10 size) and black (of #8 size);
- white sequins of 5 mm in diameter;
- nylon thread and a needle for beading;
- rubber ball of 25 mm in diameter.

Friday, March 28, 2014

Gerbera

Beaded Gerbera flowers

Today we will make a bouquet of Gerbera daisy flowers out of seed beads and wire.
We will need:
- size 11 seed beads; I made a flower for this tutorial out of seed beads of orange, yellow and green colors and also made a few gerberas of other colors;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- green thread for winding the stems.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Pen decorated with seed beads in peyote stitch

Pen braided with seed beads in tubular peyote stitch

Today we will learn one more beading technique: a tubular peyote stitch. It is a kind of peyote stitch technique that was already used in our tutorials. Using this beading technique we will decorate a pen with seed bead.
We will need:
- a pen to be decorated; I used an ordinary gel pen with an outer diameter of 9 mm,
- Czech seed beads #10; I used seed beads of red and blue colors,
- nylon thread and a needle for beading.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Wolf

Beaded wolf

Our mini series of beading tutorials on 3-D forest animals comes to its end. Today is the final tutorial; we will make a wolf.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads; I used seed beads of grey, white and black colors, but if desired, you can do without white color and weave a wolf out of gray beads with black nose and eyes;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- thin nylon line and a needle for cross-linking of finished figure (if necessary).

Monday, January 27, 2014

Fox

Beaded fox

We continue our series of beading tutorials on 3-D forest animals. Today we will make a fox.
We will need:
- size 8 seed beads of orange, white and black colors;
- wire 0.3 mm thick;
- thin nylon line and a needle for cross-linking of finished figure (if necessary).

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Bear

Beaded 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

Stars beaded in brick stitch

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

Snowman beaded 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

Beaded Christmas wreath

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

Horse beaded 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).