Christmas balls from beads: options for decoration by own hands (diagram)

April 4, 2017 handmadebase

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Master-class simple braiding New Year's ball
Braiding a Christmas ball with parallel weaving
Video: We make decorations for Christmas balls

Any needlewoman will probably want to decorateyour own Christmas tree with homemade toys. And it’s no secret that the brightest and most sparkling toys will probably be those woven from beads. After all, no other material can have such a variety of shades and shine. A beaded ball will not only be a wonderful and unusual decoration for your Christmas tree, but can also serve as a delightful and unique gift for your family and friends on New Year's Eve. Such New Year's balls are usually created using weaving techniques, using various patterns.

The most magical and charming Christmas treeYou will get a New Year's ball if you can weave a ball made of glass. After all, it is precisely this ball that has a mysterious shine and is painted, usually in colors that are more delicate than plastic toys. However, this is not so easy to do. After all, such Christmas tree decorations are quite fragile and you can easily make a bunch of New Year’s fragments out of them. It is much easier to reproduce the master class explaining the braiding of a plastic ball. Such a New Year's souvenir will be both more practical and durable. To repeat our master class on braiding a ball and make a wonderful decoration for the New Year tree, select brightly colored beads. It is better if it shines and shimmers. You will also need beads, stones and ribbons. In general, everything that can be used to make our ball even more attractive.

Master-class simple braiding New Year's ball

New Year's ball braided with beadsA simple way to weave Christmas balls is to use for this purpose several low beads collected from beads. To make such a toy, purchase a ball with a circumference of 21 centimeters, beads having a size of 7/0 and beads of various shapes, but not exceeding the size of 5 mm. Don’t forget about the fishing line on which all your materials will be attached to create a New Year’s miracle. To make your ball the most beautiful, use beads and beads for weaving in colors that will go well with the shades of your ball. There should be a lot of beads on the ball, so you should not use their glass version. After all, then your New Year's gift will be too heavy.
First you need to set the fishing linebeads and seed beads and, by connecting the ends of the fishing line, make two rings with a diameter of 3 cm, with the number of beads being a multiple of twelve. After all, later you should end up with twelve strings connecting both “poles” of the Christmas tree ball. These rings will wrap around our New Year's ball from above and below. Place these rings and lightly mark their location with a marker or scratch the surface of the ball with a needle. Take a centimeter and measure the distance between the points. This must be done in order to determine the length of the weave.
You can place the beads as low as you like. Experiment to find the best one later. Weaving low is carried out according to the following scheme.

Fasten the thread to a bead on one of the rings.Place beads and beads on the thread in the order you like. After this, pass the needle through the corresponding bead of the second ring and back through the entire bottom. Here you should pull the thread tight and thread it back into the bead you started with. And then move on to the second bead of the ring, repeating the whole process. So you have to do twelve low. After the ninth is woven, you can insert your New Year's ball and continue working. At the end of weaving, fasten the thread and disguise the knot. Tie an interesting loop to your ball using ribbon and small Christmas decorations. All this must necessarily match the color.

Braiding a Christmas ball with parallel weaving

Buy a plastic Christmas ball, diameter7cm and beads measuring 10/0 in two bright and contrasting colors. Let it be blue and white in our example. Still you will need the same blue colored beads, but the size is 5/0 and the bead wire.

Parallel weave pattern diagram for braidingNew Year's ball Let's start our master class. To begin, take size 10/0 beads and weave a star consisting of nine parts onto the wire. A diamond weaving pattern is used to create each piece.

Cut 60 cm of wire, put blue on itBead, and then two more and pass through them in the opposite direction another wire edge. Now you need to make a good tightening of your weaving. It's ready in two rows. For the next one, type blue, white and again blue beads and again draw through them the other end of your wire segment. Continue to weave further according to the scheme of weaving a rhombus. At the very end of the wire "tails" twist and cut, leaving 1 cm, which must be folded on the inside.

The next rhombus should also be made exactly, butWhen you reach the weaving of the widest place, draw the wire through the wire loop of the diamond made earlier. And then successively connect all the rows. So you should collect all nine diamonds among themselves. The last diamond will be combined with neighbors from two sides. All your tails should be bent in one direction. Now you've got a star and you need to make another one like that. This will be the longest part of your New Year's work.
After both stars are ready, you will need to connect them. For connecting weaving it is better to use fishing line. Using loops, we connect the stars to each other, working with both ends of the fishing line.

New Year's ball braided withparallel weaving on wire Place the stars together so that the sides with the tails are turned inward. Place one blue 5/0 bead on the line, then four white 10/0 beads, one blue bead and then four white beads on each end of the line. Pass the edges of the fishing line through the beads of any diamond pair and repeat the same set. Finally, pass both ends of the fishing line through one bead and pull it off. You get a loop that connects your stars to each other. Instead of beads of size 5/0, you can use beads of the appropriate diameter or pebbles, or even create crosses at the location of these beads with small beads.
When you finish weaving the closing loop,stretch it and insert the New Year's ball. Then tighten the weave again. The ear of the Christmas ball should fall into one of the loops. When all the work is completed, secure the fishing line and hide its edge so that it is not visible.
You can also braid the entire ball with a continuous beaded fabric, depicting some New Year's pattern or design on it. A correctly selected bead weaving pattern will help you with this.
Now decorate your Christmas tree with a beautiful tandem of beaded balls. It would also be nice to make a beaded Christmas tree and place it next to this beauty.