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Free Bead Craft Patterns Free Bead Craft Patterns Beaded Flowers, Beaded Ornaments, Pony Bead Patterns, and More Bead Crafts Free Bead Craft Patterns Beaded Flowers, Beaded Ornaments, Pony Bead Patterns, and More Bead Crafts S PANGLED IsLAND BOTTLE SKI SWEATER MATCHBOX COVER DT U CH SPIRAL BASKET by INGA HUNTER p. 1 by SUSAN SWANSON p. 2 by ALISON EASTMAN p. 3 BEADED BUG BOXES BEADED EASTER EGG H ERRINGBONE WEAVE COASTER technique >> netting online by RAMONA FINOCCHIARO p. 6 by YULIA CRYSTAL PAPAKINA p. 9 by BEADWORK DESIGN TEAM p. 11 beadwork MARGUERITE DAISY PIN SN OWFLAKE ORNAMENT by ARLENE BAKER p. 6 by ROBIN COWART p. 6 Snowflake Ornament Robin Cowart Contents This festive snowflake has many uses: decorate your holiday packages with it, dangle it ii on a small suction cup with a hook in a window, or hang it on a holiday tree. Copyright Beadwork® magazine, Interweave Press LLC. Not to be reprinted. All rights reserved. BEADWORK online 1 of 3 Free Bead Craft Patterns Beaded Flowers, Beaded Ornaments, Pony Bead Patterns, and More Bead Crafts Bead crafts have been around for hundreds of years. The •Learn some basic French beaded flower techniques with Arlene first bead crafts were probably related to adorning clothing Baker’s Marguerite Daisy Pin. Beaded flowers are beautiful at any with thousands of tiny beads, but artists soon discovered that time of the year, and this one can be made in any color for any occasion. they could use beads to craft other items such as baskets, jars, •Learn a new beading stitch and whip up a set of easy Herring- and ornaments. There are many wonderful examples of bead bone Coasters using pony beads for your next party. Choose bright crafts in museums around the world! colors of pony beads to make your party even more festive! The But beaded crafts don’t have to be big and elaborate. In fact, pony beads make it easy to learn a new beading stitch! you probably have everything you need right now to sit down and •Imagine how delightful a basket full of Yulia Crystal Papakina’s start creating a piece of beaded art. Turn your trash into trea- Beaded Easter Eggs would be—no refrigeration required! Hide sure by adding some beads! And who hasn’t admired those lovely them in the backyard for your favorite egg hunter on Easter morn- beaded ornaments that turn up during the winter holidays? ing or tuck them into a little Easter basket with some jelly beans. We’ve assembled a collection of eight bead craft projects •What would the winter holidays be without a flurry of Snow- just to give you a taste of what those beads can do! We all flake Ornaments by Robin Cowart? Sparkling seed beads make these know that beads can be used to make beautiful jewelry, but beaded ornaments an essential part of your holiday decorations, and with a little imagination, beads can be used to craft all sorts they make great beaded gift tags for your holiday packages. of items. Yes, beads have the power to turn the ordinary into the extraor- •Dig through your recycling and find an old glass bottle, dinary—with just a little bit of thread, wire, and patience, you can then turn it into a piece of beaded home decor by making Inga turn an everyday object into a carefully crafted piece of bead art. Hunter’s Spangled Island Bottle. The beads and sequins will Now that you’ve seen just what you can do with bead crafts, take a brighten up any room. look around and see where you can add some more beads to your •Don’t throw away that empty matchbox! Susan Swanson’s life! You never know where the beads will show up next! Ski Sweater Matchbox Cover fits like a glove so you can use that old matchbox to store your favorite tiny bead treasures. Bead Happy, •Make a decorative basket out of beads with Alison Eastman’s Dutch Spiral Basket. It’s perfect for a sunny porch or your favorite kitchen table. •Take an ordinary mesh bug box and turn it into a work of bead art with Ramona Finocchiaro’s Beaded Bug Boxes. These are definitely NOT for the kids! Jennifer VanBenschoten, Beading Daily editor Free Bead Craft Patterns editor, beadingdaily JENNIFER VANBENSCHOTEN designer OCEANA GARCEAU / photography JOE COCA, ANN SWANSON Projects and information are for inspiration and personal use only. BeadingDaily, Beadwork, and Stringing do not recommend, approve, or endorse any of the advertisers, products, services, or views advertised in this publication. Nor do BeadingDaily, Beadwork, or Stringing evaluate the advertisers’ claims in any way. You should, therefore, use your own judgment in evaluating the advertisers, products, services, and views advertised in BeadingDaily, Beadwork, and Stringing. iii Spangled Island Bottle INGA HUNTER MATERIALS 6mm flat sequins, in two greens, I’m a mixed media artist from a series Later, in Australia, I saw another gold, blue, and iridescent black of islands: Jamaica, my family’s home; exhibition of Haitian art, and bought Size 11° red, green, and black seed England, where I was born; and Australia, my first flag, one by Eviland Lalanne—a beads Gold metallic Delica beads that enormous island at the bottom of bit faded but absolutely gorgeous! And Small glass Tabasco bottle the world, where I live. I first saw the a constant source of technical inspira- Dark-colored knit fabric (T-shirt exhibition of Haitian flags that inspired tion for me. At the exhibition I saw fabric works well) me to do sequined bottles at the Uni- many libation bottles and nearly turned Size A Silamide beading thread versity of California, Los Angeles, in myself inside out trying to see how they 1996 while I was on my way to see my were done; finally I decided to work it Notions family in Jamaica. Of course I had seen out for myself. In my defense, I felt, and Small sturdy pillow photographs before, but the reality is so still feel, that I share a similar back- Two size 9 milliner’s needles much more—the brilliance just doesn’t ground with the people of Haiti, and am Fabric marking pencil translate. The flags were so beautiful! able to do this work without dishonor. So colorful! With such texture—and One of the advantages of having done with a skill that I will never be unknown African ancestors is that you able to equal. I came away dazzled. can go along with your intuition. One of the characteristics of Haitian It wasn’t easy. I figured that the bottles flags which is not so clear in photo- had to be covered with cloth, and the graphs is the two layers of color. You sequins stitched on, so I covered a little have the sequin layer underneath, and wine bottle with old T-shirt fabric and the bead layer riding on top, so that began. Two bottles later, I had encoun- you can play with colors in a complex, tered a whole heap of difficulties, and I sophisticated manner. I have been was hooked. Since then I have made using beads and sequins since I was six- dozens of sequined bottles, and now teen, but I had never thought of using that I have made most of the common them in quite this way. mistakes, I feel that I can pass the tech- I had beads and embroidery gear in nique on to others. my suitcase, and when I arrived in Jamaica I was so enthusiastic about NOTE: One square inch of spangling what I had seen, that my artist cousin with these sizes uses 36 beads and Jasmine Thomas suggested that we try sequins. The quantities will depend on out the technique as soon as possible. the size of your bottle. These are the Trouble was, no sequins! We searched bead and sequin sizes I used, but you Kingston, and finally found some white can vary the sizes at will and the bottle ones that we dyed blue, red, and purple will still work out. It won’t be wrong, with my hair dye. Although the dye is just different. Spangling is not an exact temporary when used on hair, it did science, which is one reason I like it— color the sequins. I have some sequins improvisation is both possible and easy. left and the color is still there after six years, so it certainly won’t fade, but it STEP 1: Remove the label from the bot- isn’t exactly perfect—unless you actually tle. Stretch the fabric to cover the bottle want unevenly colored dull spangles. and stitch it tightly in place. If you leave But it was all we had, and I did my first piece, it too loose it will be hard to stitch the a combination of sequins and embroi- sequins evenly. Try to keep the seams dery. It looks a bit amateurish now, but flat. You may or may not cover the base. I thought it was wonderful at the time. If the finished bottle will be standing, More wonderful beadwork projects are available at shop.beadingdaily.com/jewelryprojects © 2011 INTERWEAVE PRESS LLC. NOT TO BE REPRINTED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. page 1 glue card stock or leather to the bottom later, and stitch alternating sets of STEP 5: Move your needle to the space for a base and don’t spangle there. If the green sequins held down with green on the body of the bottle at the bottom bottle will hang, spangle the base. The beads and black sequins held down of the green and black oblongs.
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