Bead embroidery for beginners: basic tricks and secrets

It's already winter outside, and it's more pleasant to spend the cool evenings at some hobby. What to choose, so that it is not difficult and pleasant that it does not require a special skill? The answer is simple: embroider, and not just threads, but beads. This is not only pleasant, but also useful. In the evening you can give a "new life" of an old thing or make gifts for the New Year. Everyone knows that embroidered paintings look very nice, and it's not difficult to make them. You will be helped by embroidery patterns for beginners, which can be purchased at any furniture store, and also found in this article a little later.

Beautiful scarlet roses:

Original basket with flowers:

Bulls on the snow-covered branch:

Two swans on the lake:

White horse:

Sweet doggie:

Today we will try to tell you about the nuances that are important for any beginner.

Where to start?

To begin with, we suggest watching a few lessons on how to embroider beads for beginners on the video at the link below. Such a small digression will help you understand what you have to deal with.

We select the material

• Beads. The choice of these beautiful products is very rich: plastic, glass, relief and smooth, matte and shiny. Immediately to understand the newcomer is difficult. Therefore, first of all we remember that the beads should be uniform in color, with rounded edges and as much as possible of the same size. According to experts, the best is a glass bead of Czech or Japanese production.
• Threads choose thin, for color beads tone in tone, but for white it is better to choose cream or with a gray tint. Strong are silk, kapron and mulina threads. Before work we smear the piece of thread with a piece of wax, so it will be less confused and shaggy.
• The needle is suitable for special beaded, numbers 10 and 12. The main thing is that it freely fit into the beads.
• The fabric on which the beads will be sewn must be firm and non-fading. For the picture is suitable non-fading canvas. Check the density of the threads in the material, they must be tightly intertwined. For some thin fabrics, V-neck is sewn as a seal. Before work, wash and iron the material.

The basic tricks in the work of

are broken into two large groups:

1. Free or art technique - filling out contours.
2. Embroidery on canvas - used for embroidering paintings according to schemes.

The most suitable technique for embroidering beads for beginners is in the canvas. The principle is the same as for ordinary embroidery with a cross, but instead it is a bead that occupies one cage on the canvas and sewn along the diagonal stitch from the hole of the right bottom to the upper left. The main thing is that the size of the beads is exactly like the cells in the canvas.

Art technology involves first applying the pattern on the fabric with a tracing paper. Next, we sew the bead with the contour of the picture, the seam which was shown to us in school, the so-called "needle forward".Photos of seam examples:

In addition, this seam can be diversified, for example, by stringing not one, but three beads at a time.

Another, no less popular stitch, lower or stalk.

First fix the thread and put on the beads, then do the stitch: exactly the size of the bead needle is displayed on the wrong side. Return to the start point of the stitch and pass through the bead. So we make the whole contour.

If desired, you can combine embroidery with beads and threads, depending on your idea.

If you do not understand some aspects of the scheme, you can learn the science by watching video lessons about embroidery with beads for beginners. There you can learn the nuances of seams, how to correct mistakes and secrets of experienced craftsmen.

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So stock up on the material, choose a masterpiece that you like, and warm to you creative evenings.