Beaded Embroidery for Beginners photo and video instructions
Content
- Materials and tools for bead embroidery
- Preparing for the top bead embroidery
- Video: workplace organization
- Embroidery beads method by horizontal stitches
- Vertical beadwork
- End of the painting and decoration of beads
- Video: Learning to embroider beads
not much different from the usual cross stitch,but it is much easy in execution, so if you want to study it is not difficult. First review are available on our website videos and lessons on beading. So you get an idea of what you do, where better to start and that you get as a result. Having thus learning, you can proceed to the selection of the necessary materials and the choice of schemes for the future of embroidery. These paintings are distinguished expressiveness, volume and shine. Delightfully look
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Materials and tools for bead embroidery
For beadwork often use the sameschemes which use, performing embroidery cross. There are marked colors and perfectly clear arrangement of a part of the image. The popularity of this approach is also due to the fact that the Internet is easier to find a scheme for cross stitch, their wider choice than schemes for embroidery with beads for beginners. However, if we compare the technical aspects of the two needlework techniques, the technique of embroidery with beads is significantly different. The advantage over beadwork embroidery stitch is a volume of the finished work.
To work you will need the following materials and tools:
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For beadwork also suitable thread of Dacron sewing. They are quite strong and shaggy. As for color, it is selected in two ways:
- to obtain a smooth bead pattern should repeat the color of thread color beads;
- for mosaic type pattern thread selected in the color of the canvas.
You can find mosaic embroidery lessons on our website.
Preparing for the top bead embroidery
So, where do you start? Firstly, you need to decide that you will embroider, that is, with the image. For beginners is better to use existing schemes, or kits for embroidery with beads, which have picked up everything you need, including himself beads.
Beaded embroidery patterns that are usuallyincluded in the kits, are fabrics with a pre-applied pattern. You only need to sew beads on top of the printed image and get a finished picture. Special training in any beading techniques is not required for this.
With a purchased bead set, a beginner is more likely toin all, there will be no problems. There is a high probability that you will do everything correctly. Therefore, let's consider the option with a ready-made bead pattern. It can be found in a handicraft magazine or on our website, here you can also find lessons on bead embroidery. Do not take too large or complex patterns. The first work should be simple, and should not take too much time for beginners.
So, let's say you found a bead pattern.Now you need to measure a piece of canvas and process it along the edge to avoid fraying. After that, you can work on the beads, sorting them by color into separate boxes.
If the selected picture is large, or you are afraid,that during the embroidery process you will pull the canvas, then use pollen or a special frame. Lessons on working with hoops can be found on our website. A small beaded picture can be embroidered without them. Even before you started working, you should have marked the middle and found the starting point.
Video: workplace organization
Embroidery beads method by horizontal stitches
Usually used as beading embroiderycalled the seam or the monastic church the way. Special training in this case is not required, so even beginners familiar with it will pass fairly easily. First, fix the thread by introducing a needle into the lower left corner from the inside. Then it is output to the front side. Stretching thread, make sure that on the inside was a small tip of 3-4 mm in length. The needle is inserted in the upper right corner and then pulled to the face through the lower left. Manipulation repeated several times.
Monastery stitchNow you can take a beadof the corresponding color and put it on the needle, which is again brought out on the left at the bottom. Also put it in the corner on the right at the top. Bring the needle out to the front side through the bottom on the left of the next cell and put on the second bead. Again, bring the needle out on the right at the top. Thus, go along the entire row, sewing on the beads. Do not forget to change the colors of the beads, according to the scheme.
When you finish a row, move on to the next one,passing the needle to the front side from the upper right corner of the upper cell. It turns out that the beads are sewn from top to bottom. Make sure that all the beads have the same slope, then the bead embroidery will look neat and even professional.
When you embroider the butterfly wings, youyou will have to face a row where there will be one or more beads less and the row will shift to the left. In this case, you will need to make a stitch from the back, and then bring the thread to the front. The needle will appear in the upper right corner of the cell. Next, you should pick up a bead and thread the needle into the lower left corner of the same cell. To see everything with your own eyes, you can watch the corresponding video tutorials on bead embroidery.
Vertical beadwork
Bead embroidery in vertical rowsEverything is donealso, but you should start from the corner, which is on the left at the top of the picture. The first row is stitched from top to bottom. The thread should be brought to the front side at the bottom left in the desired cell. Put on the beads and pass the needle to the right and up in the same cell. On the back side, make a stitch, sticking the needle at the bottom right in the same cell.
Next, we embroider a stitch from the inside, sticking the needle intocorner located at the bottom right of the same cell. Pick up beads and go to the left down another cell. The second row vertically is done from the bottom up. Then the thread is brought to the front side. The needle appears from the bottom left corner of the desired cell. Take beads and pass the needle into the corner of the same cell at the top right. On the back side, embroider a stitch, passing into the corner at the bottom left of the upper cell.
Between the butterfly's wing and its body youthere will definitely be an empty area where there are no beads. In this case, the technique changes a little. It is necessary to make a transition using a connecting stitch with a slope. Here you need to try to observe the general direction of the already embroidered beads. It happens that such a stitch ends on the next row. To bring the thread out, pass the needle in the other direction.
To secure the end of the thread correctly, you canjust pass the thread through the canvas fibers several times. According to the rules, the end length cannot be less than 8 mm and more than 1 cm. Bead embroidery tutorials are easy to find on the Internet.
End of the painting and decoration of beads
As you can see, learning bead embroidery is not that easy.difficult. After you have completely finished your butterfly, you will need to soak the fabric in warm soapy water. After that, you need to rinse it in cool water, shake it out and leave it on a towel to dry. When the fabric is completely dry, you need to iron it from the back side. While ironing, you can adjust your embroidery by stretching the fabric, if necessary, vertically or horizontally.
If desired, the finished work made of beads can beinsert into a frame and hang on the wall. To do this, place the fabric with bead embroidery on cardboard and tuck the edges under it. The fabric with beads must be stretched well and then glued to the cardboard. After this, the picture can be inserted into the frame. Usually, beaded pictures are not framed with glass due to possible glare.
So, we see that bead embroidery of a small picture is not something difficult for beginners and can be done independently.
Video: Learning to embroider beads