Learn how to make beads with your own hands from different materials - wool, beads, leather, paper, and even a T-shirt. And to help you - master classes and 53 photos! Beads are jewelry that you can create with your own hands. What are they not made of! Beads, leftover wool, leather, paper, old T-shirt and even plastic bottles will go here.
How to make beads with your own hands from wool?
The felting technique is interesting and amazing. See what a beautiful piece of jewelry you can make with it. These beads are like rolls. Let the people around you wonder what these accessories are made of, and you do not immediately reveal the secret to them.
At first, only you will know what was needed to make them:
- wool of various shades;
- bubble wrap;
- rubber mat;
- stationery knife;
- bamboo mat;
- small towel;
- mesh.
The presented technique allows you not to throw away the pieces of wool left over from needlework, but to put them into action.
Pinch off small strands, lay them evenly in one row. Choose by color scheme. For example, first lay lilac, blue, blue wool, then green, yellow, orange, red.
This blank should be 30x22cm in size.
The red stripe will be on the edge, it is slightly wider than the others, and why, you will find out about this a little later. In the meantime, we continue to make beads - an adornment that looks extraordinary.
Cover the resulting workpiece with a mesh, sprinkle with prepared soapy water, rub with your hands.
Lay a thin layer of white wool on top, slightly stepping back from the edge. It will help separate the layers. To do this, you can use not only this, but also brown, black wool.
Cover the resulting workpiece with a mesh, sprinkle with water from a spray bottle, brush it a little with your hands. Cover with a bubble wrap, rub again through the mesh so that the layers adhere well to each other.
Wrap the resulting canvas with a roll.
It's time to reveal the secret of why we did not cover red wool with white. When you rolled the canvas into a roll, a figure similar to a comma formed inside it.
Now you need to wrap the resulting "sausage" in a perforated film. Please be patient as this work piece needs to be rolled for about 5 minutes. Then all layers will adhere well to each other.
Remove the film, now you need to roll this workpiece on a rubber mat. Don't forget to seal the edges too. They should be tapered. To do this, in the process of work, these parts need to be slightly pinched.
Wrap the resulting sausage in a terry towel, continue to seal it, rolling it already in the towel. To make it even more dense, wrap it in a mat and roll it in for half an hour.
Now you can take out this workpiece, rinse it well in warm water, then leave it to dry completely.
To avoid the smell of mustiness, you need to dry the felt in a warm, ventilated place. It is advisable to first thoroughly blot the workpiece with a towel. When this part is completely dry, the fun begins. Take a stationery knife with a new sharp blade, chop this blank into 1 cm thick circles.
You will get such beautiful rolls. It is good that some of them are of different sizes; when assembling the product, it will be possible to place larger elements in the center, and small ones along the edges.
If you liked creating jewelry beads, then you can look at another interesting method that will allow you to get a different color scheme.
To do this, you need yellow, orange and red wool.
Place a piece of this wool on your work surface. Moisten with soapy water, place the bubble wrap on top. Grind the workpiece, wrap it with a roll. Then proceed in the same way as in the first master class.
You can experiment with colors, make beads from wool of various textures and colors.
How to make beaded beads?
The next master class will help you create such an airy decoration.
To make a necklace, you will need:
- fishing line;
- beads;
- hook;
- scissors;
- clasp.
Manufacturing sequence:
- The decoration is very simple. First you need to string the beads on the fishing line. Then the resulting "thread" must be knitted by making a chain of air loops. But the loops are not the same. Some consist of 3-4 beads, others are empty (without beads), contain only a piece of fishing line.
- After you have knitted the entire piece, finish shaping this blank by knitting at the end of 5 loops from the fishing line. Finish securing this piece by tying a knot here.
- In the same way, complete at least 10 elements, making each new bead component 5 mm longer than the previous one. It remains to thread all the ends of the lines into one fastener, fix them here.
The diagram will help to make the following beads from beads.
Taking a thin wire, you need to string beads on it, form a frame of a flower from them, consisting of a core and four petals. Then, in the center of each petal, you need to fix a larger bead.
Make several such blanks, fasten them together. This is the first row of the necklace. To create the second, you need to make hanging loops from small and large beads. At the end of the process, attach the clasp.
The following bead pattern will help you create similar ones. See how to make flowers from six beads by stringing them onto a wire. Then twist it and put on the same number of beads here.
Then a third is added to these two petals, and so on. In total, this flower consists of six petals and a core. You need to complete several elements to get a necklace that will fit you. In conclusion, columns are created from beads on both sides. A fastener is put on the ends of the wire or fishing line, fixed.
But what other beads you can make by taking elements of two colors.
Such necklaces can be created from the most unexpected things. The proof of this is the following master class.
How to make beads with your own hands from a T-shirt?
Such knitted items are just a storehouse of useful ideas. To make beads, take:
- t-shirt;
- metal ring;
- threads;
- a needle.
If you are tired of the T-shirt or has become old, cut it into strips 2-3 cm wide and start creating.
If you need to lengthen the elements, you need to connect the ends of the two strips and sew them on your hands or on a sewing machine. Let's get down to interesting work. Form a loop from each strip, attach it to the ring. It is necessary to braid it all with these elements so that the ring is not visible. To do this, attach the strips close to each other.
See what you get - front and back views.
If the ring is in front, then throw the ends of the ribbons over your shoulder and arrange them here, weaving two pigtails. Tie up the rest of the ribbons, fix with a hair clip.
You can use not only a T-shirt, but also other things that have gone out of fashion and unnecessarily take up space in the closet. Cut them into strips too and tie them to a ring.
And here's how to make beads from a T-shirt so that they are very elegant. Also cut it into strips. String several large beads on each. Sew the strips so that the seam is at the back. Cover it with a piece cut from a T-shirt. The photo demonstrates how to make such beads.
They can be made from unnecessary things by decorating it in a certain way.
Cut out the triangle with the strings right away, or sew them on afterwards. It remains to sew on beads or glue artificial stones and you can try on the decoration. Do not throw away pieces of leather left over from needlework, take this material instead of the base.
How to make a necklace from various materials - a master class
An original piece of jewelry can be created from the most unexpected materials.
From metal circles
To make the next necklace you will need:
- metal mugs;
- ribbon;
- scissors.
Pass one ribbon into the first metal blank, place the second circle over the data and thread both ends of the ribbon into this part.
Shade the ribbon. Pass the second tip as shown in the following photo to secure these two parts of the necklace.
Using this technology, attach the rest of the elements, making beads according to your size.
All that remains is to attach the clasp and try on a new piece of jewelry. If it is not a necklace, but beads of sufficient size, then you can not make a fastener, but put them over your head.
Suede and rhinestones
The master class will show and tell you how to make another necklace. It is made using an interesting mosaic technique.
To create this, take:
- broken brooches, rhinestones;
- suede;
- fishing line;
- lining fabric;
- non-woven fabric;
- tape to match the fabric;
- threads.
Cut out a suede blank. Lay out the remains of jewelry and other jewelry on its front side. First sew the largest ones using fishing line and threads, then place the smaller ones between them, also fasten them.
Trim off excess suede with nail scissors, leaving 3mm of this material at the edges.
Glue to the wrong side of the non-woven lining fabric, then glue this part to the main one.
Insert from one side and the other along the ribbon. Sew on and sew small stitches on the edges of the garment.
If you didn't have enough beads to decorate the necklace, then you can paint the plastic elements, buttons, shells with hairspray and use them.
From plastic bottles
This is a very interesting option for making jewelry from unnecessary containers.
To make this type of jewelry, you will need:
- plastic bottles, caps from them;
- metal knitting needles;
- scissors;
- buttons;
- knife;
- hole puncher;
- dye;
- embroidery threads;
- construction hair dryer;
- drill.
Use acrylic paint designed for plastics. Apply it in several layers with a cosmetic sponge. Cut off the bottom of plastic bottles, give these details the shape of petals. Bring the workpieces to a building hairdryer, heat them so that they take the shape of flowers. If you do not have one, hold the plastic parts over the flame for a few seconds. Then paint them in the desired color.
Cut leaves from bottles, paint them green. On each such element, make a hole with a hole punch or awl.
Make daisies out of the white lids by cutting out their petals with a knife. Hold them near the included building hair dryer so that the petals bend and take the desired shape. Drill a hole in the center of each daisy. Paint the cores yellow.
String flowers from plastic bottles, daisies from lids and leaves from bottles on metal knitting needles so that you get a beautiful necklace or beads.
From paper
Very beautiful beads can be created from this cheap material.
To do this, see the following diagram. As you can see, having cut the strips of paper in a certain way, you then need to fold them, and you get beads of various shapes.
For the first type of such blanks, an elongated triangle must be cut, for the second, this triangle must be beveled. For the third, a strip with a tapered end is cut out. The fourth is a wide strip, the 5th is narrow, the 6th is still narrower. Cut the seventh and eighth element in an interesting way. First you need to make a fairly wide strip. For the seventh bead, stepping back a little from the top, you need to make a horizontal slot here. Further - from the left point, an oblique line is cut to the left, and from the right - to the right.
To make the eighth bead, you need to step back a little from the top down, mark a point here, make a cut to the right and left of it. Let's see an example of how to make paper beads. Slice the leaf into long, narrow triangles. Take the first one, wrap it around a wooden stick or a toothpick. Remove from it, you get such a blank.
You need to make several of them.
Now connect the beads to make an original necklace. These skills will come in handy when you craft another unusual piece of jewelry.
Of pins
Make beads from paper strips in the same way. But do not close them yet, but wind each strip directly onto a specific pin. To make the necklace double-sided, wrap a strip of paper on each side of one pin.
Now you need to string the pins on a strong thread, thin elastic band or soft wire and decorate the necklace.
From laces
The next decoration will turn out to be no less original.
To do it, you will need:
- laces of different colors;
- needle and thread;
- beads;
- glass stones;
- glue.
If you have a strip of thin beads, just sew them to the string. If there are scattering beads, then they need to be taken here one by one.
Sew the laces together to create a fairly wide strip of the necklace. Glue the pebbles, sew on the clasp.
These are the beads you can make with your own hands from the most common materials, but the jewelry will turn out to be extraordinary. If you are interested in this topic, see how to make beads with your own hands from fabric:
And here's how to make a necklace from crystals and beads:
