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).

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).

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.

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).

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).

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.

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).

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Julia

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.