Beaded jewelry is always beautiful and stylish details that complement any look. Today, brooches embroidered with beads are becoming more and more popular among fashionistas.
Such a wonderful and graceful accessory, like a beaded brooch, perfectly complements any outfit: a dress, a cardigan, and a turtleneck. It is appropriate to attach it to a coat or bag. Admirable glances are guaranteed!
A needlewoman with any experience and skill level can easily make a beaded brooch. With the proper skill, you can make such a beautiful decoration - a butterfly, as in the photo, in the evening.
We need
- paper
- cardboard
- felt or a piece of dense fabric (if the fabric is not dense enough, also a hard non-woven fabric)
- a pen
- scissors
- fine needle with a small eye - for sewing beads
- multicolored beads, bugles, beads, rhinestones and sequins
- threads to match the fabric
- a pin or clasp a blank for a brooch (these are sold in accessories departments and stores with handicraft goods)
Operating procedure
- On a sheet of paper folded in half, draw the outline of our future butterfly brooch - more precisely, its half. Cut out so that, by expanding the sheet, you get a symmetrical butterfly.
- Place the paper butterfly on a piece of felt and outline the outline twice. It turns out the front and back detail. The back one can be cut along the contour, the front one - it is better to leave it on a piece of fabric, so it is more convenient to embroider. Cut a similar butterfly out of cardboard.
- On the front part, draw details - the body, the head of the butterfly, the pattern on the wings.
- Now start sewing on the beads. The first ones are the largest, from them we continue drawing with smaller beads. First you need to draw the outline of the pattern on the wings, then fill in the free space, directing the threads at your discretion.
- It is best to sew large beads to the fabric one at a time, small beads two at a time, then the finished product will look neat and even.
- When the whole butterfly is embroidered in its entirety, cut it out with scissors, leaving one millimeter at the edges of the embroidered pattern - almost end-to-end.
- Sew a pin or fastener blank to the back of the garment.
- Now line up the front embroidery, cardboard and back, trim off the mismatched edges.
- Sew the front and back with a neat over-seam.
- Sew along the edge of the product with plain beads.
Advice for craftswomen
As a rule, for work, needlewomen take beads of two colors. Combinations can be any: for example, blue and gold, black and silver beads, gray and pink, dark green and light green, etc. In this case, the beads themselves may differ from each other in matte and shine, shape, size. You need to combine them with each other, relying on your own taste. There are no restrictions in the choice of combinations of colors and textures - it's up to your imagination!
