Lily of beads with your hands in the master class (video)
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A beaded water lily can be a greatdecoration of any interior, especially if it is placed in a container that resembles a pond or water. This can be horizontally positioned glass or a mirror, or filled with transparent glue. You can make a water lily flower in various ways, sometimes large photos of these flowers are hung on the wall in rooms, which serve as decoration. But today we will figure out how to make it using bead weaving. This is what our master class will be dedicated to.
Beading is very excitingoccupation. In addition to a pleasant pastime, this handicraft allows you to make various decorations for your home and for you personally with your own hands. So, let's get to work. We have supplemented the master class with a video that will clearly demonstrate the process of weaving a water lily.
Lily Bead master class
For prepare the following materials and tools:
- white beads;
- pink beads;
- yellow beads;
- green beads;
- 0.3 mm wire;
- floss thread, in order to collect water lily flower.
French beading patternLet's start withmaking large white petals. To do this, take a wire 15-20 centimeters long and string 3 centimeters of beads on it. These beads will be the basis of our petal. Then we will prepare a long wire and also string beads about 40 centimeters long on it. Next, we will begin to attach the bead thread to the main wire. We need to make sharp water lily petals using the French row weaving technique (see the diagram).
To do this, wrap the beads around the beads.base, screwing it on both sides to the wire on which it is strung. On each side of the main bead, it is necessary to strung four rows from the bead thread. As a result, you get a white beaded water lily petal. You need to make eight of these large petals. We continue our weaving of the water lily flower, making four more smaller petals. The base of such petals will be two and a half centimeters.
The next type of petals also has a base2.5 centimeters long, but at the base you should add some pink beads. We also make four of these petals. The number of rows of beads should be the same in all types of petals. That is, you should make four arcs after the main row everywhere. As you can see, weaving a water lily is simple, the pattern is also not difficult to understand. This technique is available even for beginners.
And another type of water lily petals that wewill be required, have a base length of only two centimeters, and a rounded end. At the base of these petals, you also need to place pink beads. We make six of these petals. After all the petals are completed, you need to make the middle of the water lily. To do this, make a circle of small diameter, and then a couple more rows that close this circle.
We continue beading, making stamensfor our water lily. Take a thin wire and string seven beads on it. Then string another one, leaving it separate from the others, and pass the same end of the wire back through all seven first beads. Then string seven more beads on the free end of the wire for the next stamen. Close the row with the eighth bead, as in the first case. Move this bead to the already finished stamen, and get the second stamen. Using this technique, make the number of stamens that we consider necessary.
When all the parts are ready, you can startflower assembly. When assembling a water lily, you need to follow the instructions that follow from a specific diagram. For ease of assembly, we will lay out all the petals on one horizontal surface. We begin assembling the flower by connecting and twisting together all the stamens, gradually adding petals. We must first screw the smallest of them with a thread, firmly connecting them to the stamens.
Then we add larger petals, andthe next ones are even bigger. We do this until we collect all the petals together and get a water lily flower. We screw all these petals to the common base using threads. After finishing assembling the petals into a flower, we straighten them out well, giving them the shape of a real water lily.
And now we weave a water lily leaf.To do this, we will make a base, which consists of three rigid wires twisted together and lying in one plane. In addition, we screw a wire to this base, which must be positioned vertically to the plane of the base. It will be the leg with which the leaf is held. Now we string a large number of green beads on a long wire, and screw its end to the base mounting spacer. Then we will make circular movements. We fix the bead thread clockwise and counterclockwise, forming an incomplete circle. This is the shape of an incomplete circle that a water lily leaf has. For the leaf, we make 14 rows of beads.
Water lily leaf weaving pattern
Having finished weaving the leaf, we cut it off and bend itends of the wire. So, our beaded water lily is ready. We are finishing our master class on weaving a water lily. Some visitors to our site have a desire to weave not a water lily, but a lotus from beads. The thing is that these two plants are very similar to each other. But the lotus looks a little different because it does not lie directly on the water, like a water lily. The leaves and flowers of the lotus are raised above the water quite high. Therefore, it needs to be planted in a container differently than we will do with a water lily. For a water lily, we will take a small crystal or glass plate with high edges, about three centimeters.
We pour stones and beads into it and fill themtransparent glue. Which will hold the whole structure. Place the leaf and flower of the water lily directly on the surface of the glue, as if they were on the surface of the water. If we make a long stem holding the leaves and flowers, then instead of a water lily we will get a lotus made of beads. So, we have finished our work on weaving a water lily and a lotus from beads. We strongly recommend that you do not forget to watch the video materials attached to the lesson.
Video: Learn how to weave beads lily
