#Bead loom tutorial free

So, if you added 2 beads, you come back up through between these two beads.

Come through at the point in the middle of this group of beads. Now pass back up through the backing, making sure you come through on the marked line. Make sure you pass down through on the line you have marked. Then pass back down through the backing, at the point where the last bead is sitting. Slide the beads into place on the backing. *Pick up 2-4 beads (if you are using big beads, then pick up 2, if you are using small seed beads, then pick up 4). (Start at the beginning if the line has a clear beginning and end). Pass your needle up through the backing at a point on the line you will be beading. It also looks good circling around a cabochon or large bead. You can use Backstitch to mark curved lines or straight lines and to fill in whole areas. My personal preference would be to work in Backstitch instead as you have more control over ‘drawing’ as you go. So, if you do have to use it, just make sure you take the line in small stages.īut now, let’s look at another option. As you have defined the beginning and end of the line, you may find you have too many or too few beads to space accurately along the curved line once you begin anchoring them. It is difficult to see how the beads will sit accurately and the couching that you are about to do may cause them to move. One word of caution: if you are working with a very curved line, try to cover it in stages, with just a few beads. If you are working on a straight line, then keep your beads as straight as possible. If you are working along a curved line, then by using the marked line as a guide, you will pull your beads into the curved shape that you want. Keep repeating this all the way along the line until you are a few beads from the start. Pass the needle and thread over the top of your line of beads and take them back through the fabric to anchor the next part in place. Once again, pass up through the fabric, on the marked line, but a few beads back towards the beginning. Make sure the thread is pulled through fully and this will keep your beads anchored in place.

Your thread should pull down over the top of the thread, between the beads, as you pull the needle through. Pass back down through the backing, as close as possible to where you came up. Now take your needle and thread over the top of the line of beads. The photo above shows the work to this point. You now need to bring your needle back up through the fabric, at a point on the marked line, but between two beads, say 3-4 beads from the end. Simply pass your needle up through the backing at one end of the line, thread on enough beads to reach to the other end, slide them into place and then pass down through the backing at the point marking the other end of the line. For straight lines, or for short curves, couching is a good option. If you have marked lines on your pattern template, then you may want to bead over them, as if you were outlining an area.

So, there is nothing to stop you from jumping in straight away and learning more as you go along. My main message here is that you can make an awful lot of bead embroidery with just a very few techniques. But, if this larger bead has no hole, you will want to use Stack stitch to secure it. Now, you might be able to just stich these on. You may decide to add a larger focal bead (or several). These are the two main things you will need to do with bead embroidery. Backstitch and couching are still options, but you can also think about using Stack stitch, loops, Stab stitch or just adding single beads. If you want to ‘colour in’ an area, then you have different choices to make. If you want to draw a line, then this gives you a choice of two main bead embroidery techniques: backstitch and couching. The first question to answer is, what are you trying to do? I created this project to teach the basic bead embroidery techniques. So, before I talk about the individual bead embroidery techniques, I want to offer you a helpful framework for deciding which to use. But there are choices that will make life easier or allow you to achieve your goal with more success.

#Bead loom tutorial free

I find bead embroidery a lot more free than bead-weaving, in the sense that you can choose exactly what kind of technique(s) you want to use. Bead embroidery techniques exist to help you create different textures and ‘paint’ different scenes with your beads.