Heather from beads. Beadwork for Beginners

If you want to refresh your interior, make it the charm of the Scottish valleys, then heather of beads with gentle transitions from lilac to green will suit you as well as possible. If you are a professional, then you will not be hard at work collecting heather twigs from beads. But even if you first decided to make beadwork, relying on the master-class "Weaving from beads heather", you can create a real masterpiece.

Legends of Heather

There is a legend in Scotland that long ago, when the gods created our world, they distributed the distribution zones between animals and plants. Without life and vegetation there were only windy stony hills. No plant wanted to be in such difficult conditions, long the gods were looking for a daredevil, ready to become the guardian of the stone hills. Finally, the fearless heather agreed to occupy this area, taking up the stones with strong roots.

As a reward for courage, the gods gave the heather strong roots, endurance and ability to withstand any weather conditions, beautiful appearance and a delicate honey aroma that attracted thousands of bees. Heather honey is considered one of the most delicious.

Heather - a symbol of endurance and beauty. Decorate your house with this miracle of beads, and you will not be frightened by any difficulty.

Tools and materials

If you are interested in weaving with heather beads, you will need a number of tools and materials. However, most of them can be found in every home, and those that have to be bought are very inexpensive.

• Wire for beadwork 0.4 mm in diameter.

Of course, you can take a conventional copper of a suitable size, it almost does not differ from a special wire for beadwork. If you want to give your work more naturalness, take a wire of dark green or dark brown color.

• Wire cutters.

Any nippers that you will find in the tool box are suitable. If you do not have a clipper, you can use scissors, although they are dull from this.

• Special capacities for beads.

They are needed to ensure that the beads are not lost during operation, and the colors do not mix. If there are no special containers, you can use lids from cans or pieces of fabric. It is better if the fabric and covers are monophonic, contrasting with beads of colors (for light beads - dark fabric, for dark - light).

• Beads of green, lilac and light purple flowers or green, pink and light pink flowers.

The above combinations are most successful in making heather of beads, but you can also make other color solutions if you want.

Other necessary materials and tools:

• Ruler.
• Sponge or a floral oasis.
• Capacity, where the heather bush will be installed.
• Sand, pebbles or shells.
• Gypsum or putty.
• PVA.

Heather from beads: a master class

So, you have prepared the tools and materials, decided in which colors you will design your creation, and are ready to start working. Beadwork for beginners is not always easy. However, the twigs of heather reproduce is not so difficult. Moreover, the weaving of twigs with leaves and twigs with inflorescences is very similar. Let's figure out how to weave heather of beads.

Green heather

The first thing we do is to make twigs with foliage.

To do this you will need:

• Green beads;
• Green or brown wire;
• Wire cutters.

Progress:

• Spread the green beads on the prepared place.
• Cut off a piece of wire, about 30-35 cm.
• Fold the wire in half and type 11 beads on it so that in the middle was the 6th bead (the middle you indicated by folding the wire in half).
• We twist both sides of the wire under the end beads, the twisted part will be about a centimeter. You should get a loop of beads and stay two free wire ends. Give the loop an elongated shape.

• At one end, dial 11 beads, retreating from the previously twisted piece centimeter, twist the wire under the beads.
• Fold the two ends of the wire together and twist them another centimeter.
• At the other end of the wire, too, dial 11 beads and repeat the above steps.
• Make a total of 5 such loops, which after pull in the leaves. This will be part of the green twig.
• For one whole branch, make three such parts.
• Take one of the twigs (it will be central) and fasten the remaining two pieces at a distance of 2 cm from its last leaf on the sides.
• The number of such branches depends on the scale, which must have heather of beads. For the operation of the average, 10 branches will suffice.

Heather flowers

Heather flowers have many ways of weaving. Below is the master-class "Weaving of beads of heather inflorescence in a row". In order to weave flowers, you will need:

• Wire brown or green;
• Beads of pink and light pink, lilac and light lilac or blue and light blue;
• Wire cutters;
• Green beads.

This method is simpler, like its scheme. Heather, the beads for which you have chosen, has tender inflorescences, like weaving, like weaving. By the way, the flower branches can be made in the same way as the leaves, but a more interesting variant is presented here.

Progress

• Cut a piece of wire of the same length that you cut off for a leaf twig.
• Pour two shades of beads on two separate surfaces.
• Type 10 beads of darker color on the wire.
• Move the beads to the middle of the wire and twist the loop. Unlike leaves, this method does not imply large areas of twisted wire.
• Stepping back 2 cm, dial 10 beads of a lighter shade on one side of the wire.
• Twist the wire under the beads, the length of the twisted part should be 0.5 cm.
• At the other end of the wire, dial 10 beads of dark shade and follow all the steps described earlier.
• Make on the side of the wire with a dark bead 2 loops of beads of dark hue and 2 - from green.
• Make on the side with a light bead 3 loops of light shade and 1 - green.
• Bend the sides and twist the wire under the beaded loops together.
• Make 4 such inflorescences for one branch and twist them together.
• Make 20 such twigs for an average heather bush.

How to alternate colors and shades on the inflorescences, you decide, and it depends on your imagination.

We collect a bouquet

When the heather of beads, the master class we produced in this article, is almost ready, you just have to twist the loose ends of the wire together and put the composition in a suitable container.

Let's say you chose a pot.

To fix the heather in the pot, you can use different materials. This article will tell you how to set the heather in a pot with the help of a finish putty, since when it is used the surface remains dry after drying.

You will need:

• pot;
• Ready heather bush;
• Floral oasis (you can use a foam sponge);
• Finishing putty;
• Pebbles, pieces of moss, glass balls.

Progress:

• At the bottom of the pot set the oasis so that its edges fit snugly against the walls of the tank and.
• Top poured densely diluted filler, not reaching 2 cm to the edge.
• Gently place a bouquet of heather on the center of the pot.
• Leave the composition until the full hardening of the putty.
• We decorate the frozen surface around the trunk of heather with stones, moss and glass balls.

It's so easy and simple, having spent no more than two evenings at work, you have made a beautiful and unusual interior detail. Even if before you have never held beads in your hands, such a weaving from beads for beginners, no doubt, will be given to you easily and will kindle in you interest in beadwork.