How to weave from beads gently pink violets, step-by-step photos and detailed instructions of various weaving techniques for creating flowers and violet leaves

December 31, 2017 handmadebase

Many of us have flowers growing in our homes.Some people diligently water huge ficus trees, others spray the leaves of the bordered dracaena, and still others diligently create shade for little violets on the windowsill. All living indoor plants require certain conditions that are suitable only for them: watering, lighting, air humidity. But what to do if you simply don’t have enough time to constantly take care of them? There is an excellent solution – create a beautiful blooming flower with your own hands. Craftsmen use paper, polymer clay, knitting yarn and beads as popular materials. We will talk about beaded flowers in this article, namely about indoor violets. Delicate blooming pink violets made of tiny beads do not need to be watered, hidden from bright sunlight and replanted. It is enough to simply wipe them from dust sometimes. You can safely go on a business trip or vacation, and upon arrival, the beaded violets will greet you as beautiful and unfading as before.

Violets of a gentle pink shade of beads

Technique of weaving flowers from this wonderfulThere is quite a lot of material, in our Club you can find several articles on bead floristry. To create violets, two are mainly used: for leaves, they use the French axial technique, for petals - the continuous wrapping loop technique. Both weaving options are similar. In the French technique, they use an axis around which they weave half-loops or half-arcs, and in the second, they simply do not make an axis, but simply place one loop (arc) over the other. Below are several master classes on creating pink violets from beads. A little history The origin of beads is inextricably linked with the history of glass. The very first crafts made from glass beads are ancient Egyptian. Glassmakers added various chemical elements to the mass: copper, cobalt, manganese and received green, blue or purple glass. The Egyptians made amazingly elegant jewelry using beads as an imitation of precious stones. When the ability to make glass passed from the land of the pharaohs to the Romans, they began to make not only jewelry from it, but also household items: kitchen utensils and windows. For a long time in the Middle Ages, Venice was the center of glassmaking. Craftsmen kept the secrets of glass making in the strictest confidence, and Venetian beads were so highly valued that slaves, precious fabrics, gold and rare spices were given in exchange for them. With the development of trade, the discovery of new sea routes and lands, Venice lost its monopoly on the production of glass beads. Entire glass factories appeared, and beautiful bright beads became available to everyone. Now there are many brands of beads from different manufacturing countries, while the main thing in the material remains its quality. The better the beads are selected by size (calibrated), the more beautiful and neat the craft will turn out in the end. Option 1 Pink violet from beadsYou will need:

Beads 11/0 in three colors: pink for petals, yellow for stamens, green for leaves.
Wire 0,3 mm;
Pot where you can put the violet.
Alabaster.
Tools for working with wire.

Petals To create each flower5 petals are needed. We will weave them on wire pieces of 30 cm each. One end of the wire must be twisted into a loop so that the strung beads do not fly off. We string beads on the remaining piece. You can put on several dozen beads at once (50-60 pieces). Step back about 10 cm from the loop at the end and twist a loop of 5 beads. It is not necessary to twist tightly and make many turns of the wire, it is enough to simply secure the bead loop.Now you need to make two more circles, whichwill bend around the first loop. This is what you should get. Try to place the loops as close to each other as possible so that the petals do not have large gaps between the bead strings. For each flower, you need to make 5 such petals. The splendor of the future violet is up to your taste. Stamens To create stamens for one flower, you will need a piece of wire about 20 cm long. We will weave them using the coral technique, or it is also called needle technique. String 3 beads on the wire. Move them about 5-6 cm to the middle. Now take the longer end of the wire and thread it through the first and second beads. You get the first "needle". String 3 more beads on the long tail and make the second needle as close to the first as possible. Do the same with the third needle. Twist the wire ends and the stamen is ready.Leaves For each leaf you will need a piecewire about 50 cm. Similarly to the petals, you can immediately make a string of beads, to make it more convenient. We will weave the leaves using the French axial technique. Measure from one edge about 13 cm. Move 10 beads to the mark and make a large loop of wire (about 2 cm), separating these beads from the rest of the string (see photo). We got an axis of 10 beads and a working wire with a low bead. Now we begin to braid our axis with arcs of beads, fixing them with a couple of turns alternately below and above the axis. Try to place the arcs as close to the axis as possible. The number of beads in each pair of arcs will increase. In total, you will need 5 pairs of arcs. Twist the end of the working wire and the large loop along the entire length, as we did with the stamens and petals. Hide the small tail that remains from the axis in the upper arc. You will need at least 7 leaves.Assembly: Twist the stamen with two petals.Then we attach the remaining three and straighten them. In this master class we have 7 flowers. We twist them together. We also connect the leaves together and twist them with the flowers, as shown in the photo.As a pot, where we“let's plant” a violet, you can use any suitable container. You can take a jar left over from yogurt or baby food. It can be painted in absolutely any color, decorated using decoupage technique or decorated in some other way. In general, connect your imagination. All that remains is to mix water and alabaster until the consistency of sour cream, pour into the container and insert the violet there. For some time, the craft must be firmly fixed until the alabaster sets. If you use a ready-made ceramic container, it is worth remembering that when the alabaster hardens, the pot may crack. To avoid this, put a lump of foil on the bottom. Option 2In this lesson, there will be a slightly different technique for making petals. We will not make them individually, but all together on one piece of wire. You will need:

Beads of three shades, as in the previous master class (pink, green, yellow).
Wire.
Green thread.
Alabaster.
PVA glue.
Pot for the flower.

Flowers For each flower you will need a piecewire 1 m long. As in the previous master class, you can string more pink beads on the wire. From one end of the wire, move the beads about 10 cm and make a loop of 7 beads. Make the next loop slightly larger around this loop. For one petal, you only need to make 3 loops.Now you need to step back from the first petal a couplecentimeters and make the next one (see photo). Thus, on one piece of wire we make all 5 petals. It is necessary to twist the ends of the wire, and you will get a flower like this.You will need 9 of these flowers.For the stamens, take yellow beads and pieces of wire about 25 cm long. Needle weaving technique, as in the previous lesson. String 8 yellow beads on the wire. Now you need to move them to the middle of the piece. Pass one end of the wire through the first three beads in the opposite direction, and we get a stamen with a cone. You will also need 9 of these cores.All that remains is to twist one core at a timeeach flower. Leaves You will need a piece of wire slightly longer than 1 m. Make a loop similar to the previous lesson. You need to string 2 cm of beads on the short piece. This is the axis. String beads on the long end of the wire (it will be the working end) and make 6 pairs of arcs. We will need 9 leaves.Assembly First we twist all the flowers, then we attach the leaves to them. Tightly wrap the stem of the resulting blank with threads. We fix the ends of the threads with PVA glue.The next step is to mix the alabaster, glue andwater. Pour the mixture into a pot, insert the blank there and fix it until the alabaster begins to set. Option 3 Pink violet with a dark purple border of petals made of beadsYou will need:

Beads 10/0 or 8/0 pink, dark purple, white and green.
Wire of two colors: steel and green.
PVA glue.
Floral ribbon.
A piece of styrofoam.
A small flower pot.

Petals We start making petals in the same wayprevious master class. Take a slightly longer piece of wire, because our beads are larger in size compared to the previous lesson. Put 5 pink beads on the wire. Step back from one edge about 7-10 cm and make a loop, twisting the wire a couple of times. Now string about 12 beads on the longer tail of the wire and make a second loop around the first. The third loop will consist of 20-23 beads.We don’t cut the wire, but we step back from the first onepetals about 1 cm and start weaving the second. In total, you need 5 petals. Twist the ends of the wire. You will need 2-3 more of these blanks. We start weaving the second tier of the flower. It is done similarly to the first, but the petals will have four loops instead of three. We make the last loop from dark purple beads.Violets have stamens, and in this master classThey will be made of white beads. String 4 white beads onto a piece of wire about 25 cm long. Move them to the center and twist the loop with just a couple of turns. Bend it perpendicular to the rest of the wire and put 2 more white beads on the tails. The wire with these two beads should be positioned so that the beads are located in the middle of the loop of 4 beads. Make stamens according to the number of flowers. Now take the first tier of petals, insert a stamen into the center, twist. Insert the entire structure from above into the second tier and twist again. Wrap the wire with green ribbon flor. Weave the leaves using the already known French axial technique. You will need a piece of green wire about 40 cm long. The axis will consist of 8 beads. The first pair of arcs of 10-12. You will need a total of 4 pairs of arcs.You need 12 leaves.We twist them together by 3 and wrap them with floral tape. In order for our violet to sit well in the pot, it is necessary to glue a piece of foam to the bottom. It should fit very tightly into the container. In the center, make a depression, pour in some glue and insert the violet there. All that remains is to straighten the leaves and flowers.In conclusion, we offer some usefultips for beginner needlewomen who want to try themselves in bead floristry. To make the flower seem more alive, you can mix several shades of beads of the same color. Beads with different effects also look very advantageous: matte, glossy, with a pearlescent sheen or a "gasoline" effect. It is advisable to choose multi-colored wire. Green wire for leaves, white, yellow, blue, red for petals and stamens will look much more advantageous. If you do not have floral tape at hand, you can use corrugated paper to mask the wire. It is enough to cut it into strips and wrap the stems, having previously coated them with glue. Almost any beads will do for training and the first steps, but if you set out to create something truly beautiful, use only calibrated material. The more accurately the beads are selected by size, the neater the product will turn out in the end.

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