Bells from beads

Flowers made with their own hands, look always very original. What they do not do in a variety of handicraft techniques: roses and lilies, gerberas and poppies, cornflowers and violets. Today we offer you a detailed master class for beginners in making a bell from beads. It is done very easily, and having mastered the principle of work, you can easily create a whole bouquet of these beautiful wildflowers.

Bells from beads - a master class

1. Prepare small beads of different colors, thin wire and wire cutters. Also you will need a floristic ribbon or threads floss, tweezers and a vase for ready-made flowers.
2. On a segment of a 30-centimeter wire, you should dial the beads for a length of about 3 cm - depending on the size of the beads themselves, they will be from 15 to 20 pieces.
3. Fold the loop and twist the wire a little, and then make two more of the same loops.
4. It will be the stamens of the bell. Squeeze and pull them up, and the remaining free ends of the wire tighten together.
5. Using the parallel weave method, make the first petal. First you need to thread on the middle of a long wire one bead (this will be the first row), and then two more, in which you need to pass the other end of the wire. Pull the ends of the wire in different directions and tighten - this will be the second row. Then string in rows (the number of beads in each row is seen in the picture), passing the wire through all the beads in the row). In total, the scheme will have 15 rows, while the petal expands to the middle.
6. At the level between the fifth and the sixth row from above, weave the second petal to the first petal.
7. In the same way, make the third and fourth petals of the bell.
8. The last, the fifth petal weave to the first, closing the flower. The ends of the wire are lowered, gradually forming a stem.
9. Insert the stamens into the hole in the bottom of the flower. If they turned out to be too short, you can string additional beads on the wire at the bottom.
10. Following the scheme (clause 5), we make sepals. To do this, we dial 8 beads on the wire, pass it through the 2nd, 3rd and 4th beads, and twist it with the other end of the wire.
11. On one wire we make 5 sepals.
12. "We put on" them from below on a flower.
13. We stretch the free ends of the wire down, intertwining them with each other.
14. By the method of parallel weaving, as well as the petals, the tattered narrow long bell leaves. For one flower, one or two leaves will suffice.
15. We wrap the stem with a green floral tape. It can be replaced and threads floss.
16. As you can see, you can make a whole bunch of bells from beads.

Using this scheme you can weave and other flowers from beads, for example, snowdrops .