How to sew with beads on fabric?

Embroidery with beads on the fabric is a painstaking job, but the result will certainly surpass all expectations. The beaded picture will play with flowers in the sunlight, and embroidery on clothes will present things a completely new, bright and colorful look. However, in beaded embroidery there are also many subtleties, which we will tell you about in the article.

Let's consider the basic techniques of embroidery with beads:

Countable embroidery on canvas

The main technique of embroidery with beads is sewing on canvas, that is, on a special fabric for needlework. This method of embroidery seems elementary to those who have ever embroidered a cross on the canvas. The main difficulty of this technique is to choose the size of the beads in such a way that the bead is placed strictly in the cell. Thread for embroidery should be selected in the tone of the canvas, it is better to make a double addition.

There are two main ways of embroidering on canvas:

Sewing

For this type of embroidery, beads are suitable for any fabric - linen, cotton, silk and so on. Embroidery is often applied to the free contour of the picture and can be used as complete and as partial. This technique is carried out as follows: thread a string of beads, conceived two or three, and stitched to the fabric along the contour of the pattern.

Sewing in the middle

At the heart of this technique is one of the most famous sewing seams - "for a needle", stringing for each stitch one bead. Often used to form the outline of a drawing or the edge of a product.

What do you need to embroider with beads?

To easily and quickly learn how to embroider beads , it is necessary to combine different techniques in the first products. How to do it, we show on the example of a master class, in which we make a brooch in the form of an owl.

So, to work on embroidering brooch from beads, we need the following:

Now let's start working on embroidering a brooch.

Master-class on embroidering brooch with beads

  1. Let's start work with weaving brazil. We collect on the line 30 pearl beads №11, weave three rows and close in the ring.
  2. Now take the silver beads and weave two more rows.
  3. Next, insert the resulting ring of Rivoli and the plait from the back side also 2 rows to secure.
  4. Now we will cut out the canvas base for the future brooch and we sew to it braided twills - eyes of an owl.
  5. Then we sew a big bead - this will be the nose of an owl.
  6. Let's sew two beads of mugamata over the eyes of an owl.
  7. Next, we sew the beads with fine beads, using the sewing technique in vain.
  8. Now let's draw a sketch for embroidery with beads - take a simple pencil and carefully draw the tummy of the owl.
  9. We sew the tummy along the contour using the sewing scheme mentioned above.
  10. Next, we need white No. 6 beads and hematite beads. We begin to embroider the tummy. We use the same technique of embroidering with beads.
  11. Now, carefully trim the canvas along the edge of the embroidery.
  12. Then we'll put the back part in order, making a brooch out of simple embroidery: we paste the cardboard, the flap of the skin, we'll pass the pin and carefully trim the embroidery contour.
  13. Next, we make a wing of the owl, after this we proceed to skin the product along the contour. For this we need a circuit.
  14. Immediately determine the place where the feet will be located.
  15. And again we continue to sew on the contour.

We enjoy the result of our creativity!