Tulip from beads

Beading is a great way to not only relieve stress and decorate your house with cute handicrafts, but also a healthy exercise. Working with small objects stimulates brain activity, slows down its aging and serves as a preventative for a variety of diseases. In this article we will tell you how to make a tulip from beads. These beautiful flowers can be decorated in a bouquet or used as a single decoration - in any case they look great.

Tulips from beads: a master class

Contrary to apparent complexity, making tulips from beads for beginners will be easy enough. This requires only perseverance, patience, as well as a little time and materials for work.

For weaving tulips with beads we will need:

• thin, but rigid wire with a diameter of 0.3 mm. You can take a color - for example, green and blue;
• strong wire 0,8-1 mm - to create the middle, leaves and bases of the petals;
• colored beads for petals (any color and size, you can even have a non-uniform or, for example, two colors - a little lighter and a little darker);
• green beads for leaves (can be small or chopped);
• Beads and bugles of black and yellow flowers (for the creation of the middle - pestles and stamens);
• rigid wire for the stalk 2mm (or any thin stick);
• green thread (to wrap the stem);
• glue.

So, let's take a closer look at how to weave a tulip of beads.

1. Twist together two pieces of wire (15-20 and 40-45 cm long).
2. On a small wire string 5 light and 6 dark beads. On the big wire we put on 4 light and 9 dark beads.
3. We twist the handicrafts through a smaller wire and make another row from the opposite side. We repeat this several times until we have 6 rows on each side. The number of beads in each row is gradually increasing. Thus we make three inner petals.
4. Then proceed to create the outer petals of the tulip. The technique of production is similar to that described above, but we will only use dark beads. We string 12 beads on the base, creating 4 rows on both sides (the gradual increase in the number of beads is retained).
5. Let's start making the core. We string on a wire (20 cm) 1 a black bead and 2 black bugles. Re-pass the second edge of the wire through the glass bead. Stamen is ready. In total you need to make 6 stamens.
6. The pistils are exactly the same as the stamens, but of beads and glass beads of yellow color.
7. We collect the center of the flower. To each pestle we attach in a circle three stamens.
8. Let's start creating the leaves. We take two pieces of wire of different lengths and twist them. String beads of green color to a length of about 4 cm. So create a row on each side.
9. The next row is also done, but on top it is intertwined, leaving about 4-5 beads to the top.
10. Thus, each side should have 2-3 teeth. We make 5 rows on each side.
11. On the wire from above we string the bead and let it pass through the main row of the sheet.
12. The details of the flower are ready, it remains only to collect it. To the core we screw the inner petals, and on top to them - the outer ones.
13. Next, wrap the stem with green threads until the middle, insert the sheet, fix it with threads and continue the winding up to the very bottom of the trunk. The edge of the thread is fixed with glue. The tulip is ready!

As you can see, making tulips from beads by your own hands is not at all difficult. And if you take white petals for petals, instead of tulips you will get snowdrops.

Try, fantasize, experiment - your reward will be beautiful crafts and other flowers - roses , daffodils and chamomiles made with a soul.