To create embroidery, not only colored threads and ribbons are used, but also more voluminous materials - beads, cutting and bugles. You can work with beads both in the counting technique, which is used when embroidering pictures, and in the free technique, which is less demanding on materials. Beaded embroidery can be used in combination with thread embroidery.
It is necessary
- - beads;
- - bugles;
- - nylon threads;
- - embroidery hoop;
- - beading needles # 11 or 12.
Instructions
Step 1
To decorate clothes, a free technique is most often used, which, unlike counting, does not require the use of canvas. When embroidering with this method, beads are laid along the contour of the pattern applied to fabric or paper. Before starting work, you need to prepare the pattern that you are going to embroider. You can draw the outlines directly onto the fabric. If this is not possible, draw a drawing on paper.
Step 2
Hoop the fabric. If you are going to embroider clothes made from stretch fabrics, use fabric for embroidery that does not stretch as much. After finishing work, you can cut out a section of fabric with embroidery, overcast the edges and sew the decoration to the garment as an applique.
Step 3
When embroidering on dense fabrics, on which it is inconvenient to apply a pattern due to the color of the material, you can use the outline printed on the paper. Pin the patterned paper to the fabric and baste it, stitching as close to the pattern as possible. When you have finished embroidering, you can remove the paper by tearing it through the holes made with the embroidery needle.
Step 4
Lay out the beads and bugles that you will use in your design on a flat surface covered with a fabric with a relief texture. A waffle towel is quite suitable for this purpose - the beads will not roll out of it, and it is much more convenient to hook the beads to the needle from the surface, and not from the can.
Step 5
It is best to start embroidery from the outline of the pattern. If you plan to use beads of different sizes in the same row, use a stitched seam. With this technique, beads and beads are strung in a row on a thread and fit along the contour of the pattern. The thread is sewn to the fabric with cross stitches with another needle. Stitches must be done through the same number of beads.
Step 6
Forward to needle and back to needle seams give an embroidery better attached to the fabric, since in this case each bead is sewn on separately. In the first case, after sewing on the bead, the needle is brought out to the front side next to the sewn bead. Using a "back needle" stitch, you bring the needle out to the front side at a distance of one bead length from the previous bead. To secure the embroidery, the thread is passed through all the sewn beads in the row.
Step 7
Bugle beads and cutters can be used to fill wide contours. The main difficulty when working with these materials is that their sharp edges easily fray silk or nylon threads used to sew bugles onto fabric. To prevent the finished pattern from falling off one day, combine bugles with beads so that the edges of the bugles do not rub against the thread.
