How to do beads

Beads-the tiny glittery, sparkling and colorful things can be stitched, stringed or attached to create wonderful craft items like jewelry, handbags, purses, adornments, lampshades and even sculptures. Literally the possibilities are enormous with beads. If you know how to do beads, you can always surprise your friends and family with handcrafted cute beaded gifts.

Beading is one hobby that could be rewarding by several means if you know how to do beads properly. It will unleash your creative flair, add dimension to your personality, make your loved ones happy and most significantly fetch you a fortune when you start selling the crafts you make. Before you begin with beaded crafts, learning certain basic beading techniques is necessary.

Following are three easy and simple steps to educate you on how to do beads:

Selecting Beads: Before beginning the craft work, accumulate all types of beads you need to complete a particular pattern to avoid any future hassles. While shopping for beads keep in mind the design and color scheme and buy adequate beads of different shapes. Combination of varying sizes often looks attractive. Finally buy quality beads from a reliable art and craft shop to ensure durability of your craftwork.  Once you get proficient with beading, you might try making some colorful beads at home all by yourself!

Stitching Beads:   Various types of stitching and stringing techniques are used by beading enthusiasts. Peyote, Right Angle Bead Weaving, African helix, Flat Square Stitch and Bead Netting are the most popular forms of all.  Peyote is the age-old off-loom stitching method which is easy yet versatile and a favorite of contemporary beaders. Right Angle Bead Weaving is a flexible off-loom technique popularly used to create covers of crafts, baskets, bags and more. African helix resembles the helical shape of a DNA. Flat Square Stitch is durable and works well with the cylindrical seed beads. Bead netting is an ancient method used by Egyptians to create a wide variety of decorative and utility items.

  Choosing Beading patterns: Once you understand how to do beads, you can get experimental with the shapes, sizes and uniqueness of beading patterns. These days, beaded jewelry, key chains, purses and decorative items are really in. You can always fetch ideas from the Internet or pattern books. However incorporating your own thoughts is certainly a better option. Beginners must choose easy patterns that can be crafted with larger beads. So choose the 8-6 sized beads instead of 11-15 sizes at the beginning. Light colored beads are always easy to work with as you can see the thread through it.

If you have friends who know how to do beads, seek help from them. Watching someone beading live is certainly the best way to learn the art. You can also resort to authentic video tutorials on beading and understand the nitty-gritty over a very short span of time!

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