Violet is a wonderful velvet flower, striking in its sophistication. The plant is quite capricious and requires careful care. It is not always possible to satisfy all its needs and the flower, unfortunately, dies. In order not to be upset every time because of the loss of a flower, needlewomen found an interesting solution - to weave a plant from beads. A beaded violet, which does not require care, will be a worthy replacement for a living flower.
Recommendations for beginners:
- To make the flower look like a real one, purchase several shades of the chosen color.
- Buy beads from trusted brands to be sure of the quality of the product.
- Stock up on beads with different dyeing techniques (transparent, matte). This will make the violet look more expressive.
- Follow the diagram strictly - the final result of the work performed depends on it.
- All care consists of brushing off the dust from the petals and leaves.
Where to start working on flowers
When starting beadwork for the first time, you need to prepare everything for work in advance. It’s very inconvenient to leave a craft unfinished and urgently go to the store to buy something more.
So, to work on a beaded violet for beginning needlewomen you will need:
- beads;
- wire;
- sharp scissors or wire cutters.
If you plan to “plant” the violet in a pot, you will also need the pot itself and plaster or clay to secure the bead composition. For convenience, it is worth considering where to pour the beads for work? An empty palette of children's paints will work just as well as special containers.
It is also advisable to arrange a workplace. A comfortable chair, a free desk and good lighting will add comfort and pleasure to work.
Preparation of the workplace
One of the important aspects of any needlework is preparing the workplace.
To create a product, it’s not enough to sit on the sofa in front of the TV. You should place containers with beads within reach, prepare all the necessary tools, and conveniently place the weaving pattern.
Remember, collecting scattered beads is not the most pleasant experience, so try to place the jars in such a way that neither you nor your family accidentally turns them over.
How to choose beads
The stores offer beads from mainly three manufacturers:
- Chinese;
- Czech;
- Japanese.
It differs in price and quality. Chinese is the cheapest, often sold in large bags. Good for beginners. It may have an admixture of defects - beads of irregular shape, deformed, without holes. Then before work it will need to be calibrated.
Japanese is the most expensive and high-quality, offering an amazing variety of both colors and shapes. Czech is the most popular because it has the best price-quality ratio.
Main consumables
The work begins in stages: first, the necessary materials and tools are prepared.
Important! You need to choose the main colors of beads for the future beauty. For those who are working for the first time, if possible, purchase large beads. This way the workflow itself will be easier to master and there will be no confusion between loops. The size of the beads is indicated on the packaging container: the smaller the number, the larger the material.
What you need for work:
- Beads of the main color and additional;
- 50 g green, for foliage;
- yellow beads (stamens);
- copper wire (0.3 mm);
- scissors;
- pliers;
- the pot is small in size, it can be replaced with a piece of polystyrene foam;
- green ribbon to decorate the stem;
- PVA glue for fastening.
Simple violet for a pot
For it you will need beads of lilac (blue, light blue, pink, white) color - for the petals. A little yellow for the stamens. And green beads for leaves.
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Step-by-step instructions on how to make a violet from beads will help even novice needlewomen understand weaving.
Necessary materials for working with beads
To work on making room decorations you will need:
- wire with a diameter of 0.3 millimeters;
- forty grams of blue beads (blue, lilac, burgundy, etc.) color;
- floral tape;
- up to five grams of yellow material;
- up to 70 grams of green pea beads.
The only tools you will need are wire cutters, and to place the plant - a flower pot and alabaster.
The first stage - weaving a flower
- String about a meter of lilac beads onto the wire.
- At a distance of 10-11 cm from the edge of the wire, twist the first loop of 7 beads.
- For the second loop, take 15-17 beads (the exact number depends on its size and how closely the second ring will fit to the first).
- Twist the second loop close to the first.
- Make the third loop in the same way, turning it four times.
- The first petal is ready. Twist the second petal on the same wire at a distance of one centimeter. Then the third, fourth and fifth.
- Small petals are made in the same way, only from two rings each. You will need three of them.
Step-by-step instruction
All these materials will be enough to make a small bouquet of violets. But if you want to place it not in a vase, but on a windowsill, then in addition to this you will also need a real flower pot, some soil or other material to fix the flowers.
Step 1: weave the petals
They are made using the French weaving technique; in the previous article the author used it to carefully form brooches. If you don’t remember well, you can go back and read the detailed master class.
Step 2: collecting flowers
Thus we weave a flower with 6 petals. In this case, it is better to make the last row of each petal in a different shade from the main one. In this case, our violet is blue, and the trim of each petal is light blue. This is the first tier of the violet. For the second tier, the petals should be a little larger in size, and it is enough to make only 5 of them. We connect the finished bases into a circle, and in the center of the larger one, we place our blank of 6 petals.
Step 3: make the middle of the flower
To form the middle, we string 7 beads onto the wire, fold them in half (approximately as it turns out), and form several turns directly under the low one. This way we form a small loop. We leave a little free space on the wire and form exactly the same loop from 7 yellow beads. In total, you will need 3 such loops. We close it all in a circle and place it in the center of the flower.
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The first violet is almost ready. All that remains is to twist the remaining free ends of the wire together and decorate it with green thread or floral tape (which is much more convenient, faster and of better quality).
Step 4: forming buds
Just like the core, we form small buds. Five loops of green beads are closed in a circle, and a blank of three blue loops is placed inside. The remaining wire tails are twisted and decorated in the same way using floral tape.
Step 5: weaving leaves
Using the French weaving technique (look at the diagrams), we form green leaves. Their number depends on the density of your bouquet.
Step 6: Assembling the flowerpot
Now we connect all the finished parts together by twisting the wire. The bouquet turns out quite lush and beautiful. We decorate the joints with floral tape and place our product in a flower pot. To fix it in place you will need either soil or regular gravel, which we pour around the stem of the bouquet.
The second stage is weaving the stamens
String 3 yellow beads onto a wire and twist them, making a total of five stamens.
A more complex option is to string 10 beads onto a wire, twist the last three into a loop and thread the second end of the wire back into the seventh, sixth, and so on until the first bead. Also make five stamens.
Flowers
We will start weaving with the petals, and from them we will collect flowers. Each petal is woven using the arc weaving technique.
Take a wire 45 cm long and string 7 beads onto it. We place it 9-10 cm from the beginning of the wire and make a loop.
Then we put the required amount of beads on the long end of the wire (it will be the working one) and make a second loop.
Then we also collect the required number of beads and make the third loop.
Now we collect 4 beads on the working wire in the following sequential pattern:
- 1 purple;
- 3 white;
- 1 purple;
Take the wire with beads and pass it between the 2nd and 3rd loops. Pull it up and secure it.
Next we make the same loop, but fasten it between the next 2 beads.
Such loops need to be made around the entire circle. Finally, twist the ends of the wire together.
For one flower you need to make 5 such petals.
We take 5 pieces of petals, stack them on top of each other and twist them together. We spread the petals in the form of a fan. Then we bend the wire so that we get a round flower.
The third stage - weaving leaves
- Immediately make a twist of two wires and work at the end of it.
- For the axis, collect six beads, make the first pair of arcs to the left and right of it (as shown in the diagram for making a violet from beads).
- Add two more arcs.
- The next arcs should be extended not on the whole sheet, but on its lower part. This is done in order to give the leaf a real shape.
- There will be a total of four “corners” on each side.
- Make five such leaves. If desired, their number can be changed in accordance with the size of the pot and the author's design.
- You can make several smaller leaves in the same way.
Leaves
We weave a stepped petal: we make a frame blank for a small leaf. To do this, we need a piece of wire 13 cm long and a second piece 85 cm. We make a tight twist of them 10 cm long (you should have a short “tail” of about 3 cm (this is the axial wire - the axis) and a long wire with a free edge, on We will use it to collect beads (working wire).
We collect 6 dark-colored beads on the axis and make the first pair of arcs with dark beads.
We make the second pair of arcs with the addition of light beads at the top of the future leaf.
In the third pair of arcs we add even more light beads.
We begin to make “steps”: we do the first one without reaching 5-6 beads to the top of the sheet. We measure out the required amount of beads (remove the excess), and pass the wire from the inside to the front of the sheet.
We collect 7-8 light beads and the required number of dark ones, return to the base of the sheet and make one turn around the axial wire (we place the working wire between the last and penultimate rows, and not under the last as usual).
We weave the second side of the leaf in the same way.
The small leaf should have only 4 “steps” on each side. When making “steps”, be guided not by the number of beads (how much to retreat), but make sure that the “steps” are approximately at the same level.
We make five such leaves.
For a large leaf, we make frame blanks from pieces of wire 15cm and 1m long. We make a twist of about 11 cm, a free “tail” of about 4 cm.
We collect 7 dark beads on the axis and make the first pair of arcs.
Then everything is the same as for a small piece of paper.
A large leaf will have 5 “steps” on each side.
Now all the blanks are ready.
We decorate all the stems with floral ribbon. We give the desired look to the flowers and leaves.
The fourth stage - assembling the composition
After all the elements of the composition are woven, assembly follows. Flowers are collected like this. In the middle of the stamen, they are surrounded by three small petals. Large petals follow.
The stems are braided with green floral ribbon. All flowers and leaves can be customized by bending them to suit your taste. Leaves are tied to the flowers with wire.
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Gypsum or alabaster is diluted according to the instructions. The bouquet needs to be placed in a pot and filled with building mixture. Hold vertically for a while until the solution hardens.
The composition is ready. Additionally decorated with stones, beads or painted.
Assembly of flowers
- Bend all petals at an angle of 80 degrees to the base.
- Connect 5 petals into a “bouquet”.
- Their edges should look in different directions, and the side where the row of loops does not reach the base by 5 beads should lie on top of each next petal.
- Insert the stamens into the center.
- Wrap all the petal stems and stamens together, starting from the base.
Wrap the stem with floral tape. Spread the petals. Collect six more flowers in the same way.
Terry violets for a pot
A beaded violet would be a wonderful gift that does not burden the owner with complex care. The master class for terry violets is described below.
Such flowers differ in life from ordinary ones in a large number of petals and a wavy border along their edge. Often double violets are multi-colored, so it is worth using beads of several similar or contrasting shades for the petals.
Special view
It is very difficult to find a person who would not admire the beauty and tenderness of the violet. Today, thanks to the efforts of breeders, there are more than 30 thousand species of this beautiful plant in the world.
The flowers of the plant consist of six or more petals, and the leaves are elliptical in shape. The tips are either pointed or heart-shaped. They can be smooth or corrugated.
As for color, petals are found in white, purple, burgundy, pink, and blue. So, having decided to make a terry plant, the choice of bead color depends only on the preferences and taste of the master.
Materials and tools
The terry type of plant differs primarily in the shape of the leaves, so for production you will need slightly different materials:
- several shades of beads for petals;
- white base for “terry” design;
- green beads (preferably several shades) to get textured leaves;
- wire rod with a diameter of 0.2 or 0.3 millimeters;
- threads;
- floral tape;
- natural coarse fiber (sisal) green;
- glue.
How to weave a terry violet
Step-by-step instructions for beginners look like this.
- Make a loop of 7 beads, moving about 10-12 cm from the edge.
- Add two more loops, increasing the number of beads (similar to the previous description).
- String five beads of a different color onto the wire and place it between the second and third loops, as shown in the photo of a violet made of beads.
- Decorate the entire circumference of the petal with such waves.
- Make 5 petals.
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Making terry violet leaves and stamens from beads is no different from simple making. The assembly of the composition is similar.
Weaving techniques
To turn beadwork not just into a hobby, but into a job you love, you need to master several techniques. This will help you choose the most suitable and convenient one for you. Each method is accessible and easy to get started, the main thing is not to stop and realize your potential and talent.
French
Wicker crafts look elegant, and even beginners can make them. The technique demonstrates stringing beads in the form of arcs, which then need to be secured to each other, forming a rounded shape. Therefore, it is French weaving that is chosen for creating flowers.
This is the main way to move forward, you should study it and practice it. After completing a small number of simple works, you can create complex and original compositions.
To get started, you will need a detailed diagram:
- take a wire 70 cm long;
- measure the edge at 15 cm and twist it with a small loop;
- put 5 beads on the other side;
- twist the buttonhole that will hold the dialed elements;
- completely fill the long edge of the material with strung beads;
- place the leaf on a flat surface so that it is flat, form a curl around the axis, which will become the base of the petal;
- place beads on opposite arcs;
- to form a petal, make 6 arcs on both sides;
- wrap the wire around the axle to secure it.
Looped (in arcs)
This is one of the most accessible techniques. It looks like a series of loops. Most often they are used to realize intended leaves and stamens.
Introduce different shades and your product will be magical:
- take a piece of wire;
- string beads on it and fold a loop;
- indent and form the next loop.
Different techniques are used for different crafts. Chinese beads are suitable for weaving with arcs, so the product is inexpensive. But most magicians switch to the French technique, although the loop technique also has many possibilities.
In any case, each technique is individual and relies only on your imagination.
Violets with buds in a pot
Having fixed your gaze on any living flower, it is easy to see that all the flowers never bloom at the same time. There are always open flowers and buds. Both of them can be successfully embodied in beads.
The composition of violets with buds is similar to that described above, only in addition to flowers, bud blanks on long wire stems are also woven into it.
How to weave a violet bud
A bud is an unopened flower. This means that to make it, you need to weave several petals and roll them together.
It is best to weave three or four petals in the same way as large flowers are woven. Just reduce the number of loops on the petals. Then fold the petals together, giving them the shape of a drop or ball.
String 4 green beads onto the wire at the base of the bud and twist them into a ring under the bud. You can form an inflorescence from two or three separate buds, or combine an open flower with one or two buds.
This way you can complement compositions with both regular and double flowers.
Leaves
We will weave round leaves in two sizes - medium and larger. You can see how to weave a round sheet in this master class.
- For the middle leaf, take a 75 cm long wire and make a loop. We collect 12 green beads on the axis. We make 5 revolutions. You will get a medium leaf. We make 7 such medium leaves.
- For a large leaf, take a wire 95 cm long and make a loop. We collect 14 beads on the axis. We make 6 revolutions. You will get a large leaf. We make 4 of these large leaves.
After everything has been woven, we wrap the wire around the flowers and leaves with threads using PVA glue.
Brooch with violets
If you are interested in beaded floriculture, you should not limit yourself to window sills. You can create amazing brooches from violets or their variety - pansies.
You can use the beaded violet master class described above. Just making fewer flowers, petals and the bouquet as a whole will turn out more elegant. Or embroider a flower on thick fabric (base). You can also create flowers using brick or mosaic weaving techniques.
In addition, when embroidering a brooch, you don’t have to limit yourself to standard round beads. Iridescent cutting, shining stones and golden threads will perfectly complement the “picture”. The video clearly shows how to embroider a beaded brooch.
Video lesson:
purple violet
The master class for beginners describes in detail how to knit a violet flower with leaves from beads. Two flowers of different sizes and correspondingly different leaves are knitted. We begin to knit a large leaf. We collect 13 beads on the wire and bend the resulting column with arcs of wire with beads. The size of the leaf depends on the number of arcs laid out.
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In this case, seven rows are laid out. Ten beads are placed at the base of a small leaf. The flower petals are knitted in the same way; the base is a loop of six beads. The center of the flower is made of yellow beads. When the leaves and flowers are ready, the assembly of the bush begins.
Beaded necklace with violets
You can create a summer mood at any time of the year by trying on a bright and fresh necklace with beaded forest violets.
The video shows the entire manufacturing process. First, a green base with corners is created. Then small delicate violets of several shades are woven together.
To make the decoration fit more naturally around the neck, it is better to weave it not from wire, but from fishing line. You can buy a fishing one or a special one in craft stores.
In addition to the necklace, you can weave a bracelet or ring using the same motifs and materials.
“Planting” a bouquet of violets
It’s easy to “plant” such a bouquet, but you need to follow some rules. The first step is to choose a pot; it must match the size of the bouquet. For a standard tuber of violets that we made, a diameter of 7-8 cm is enough.
Flowers are the most pleasant, bright gift at any time of the year. Especially if these flowers do not wither and they are made with your own hands
Next you need to try on the violets for the pot. In this case, the wire ends need to be slightly bent so that they do not rest against the bottom of the pot.
Since the flowerpot is artificial, the soil in it will also be fake - alabaster with which the pot will be filled.
Advice! Pebbles or pebbles can be used as a replacement for alabaster. They will hold the bouquet inside the pot and you can, if desired, “replant” it or add new elements.
If you still choose the option with alabaster, then the sequence of actions is as follows:
- Wrap the bouquet in cellophane: you can’t help but stain its lower part with alabaster.
- Next, dilute the alabaster with water according to the instructions.
Preparation of alabaster
- Pour it into the pot.
- Place the bush in the liquid mixture for 8-10 minutes until the composition “sets”.
Filling the base of the flower with alabaster
- Next, the package is removed.
- To make the soil more realistic, it can be painted with black or brown paints.
Advice! To complete the effect, you can not add alabaster to the edge, but fill the rest in the pot with earth or small stones.
Wedding decorations with violets
Flower lovers who cannot imagine life without violets will appreciate the idea of wedding decorations with them.
White violets can complement an outfit or hairstyle. Combs or hairpins decorated with beaded snow-white violets are spectacular. You can embroider a veil or gloves with violets. Earrings, tiaras and tiaras with them are also good.
The photographs show some of the embodied fantasies of needlewomen. Every bride has the opportunity to invent and create a unique look to her taste.
Set of violets
What cute little rings and pendants, decorated with multi-colored violets made of beads. How nice it is when you can make jewelry for yourself in an hour or less. With the help of such jewelry you will enliven your appearance and add zest.
The principle of weaving violets is clearly visible in the article “Violets made of beads on wire.”
Weaving materials:
- light beads No. 12 - dark beads No. 12 - green beads No. 12 - bead for the middle - ring blank - round metal base with holes - clasp - fishing line, wire
Manufacturing scheme:
Making violets is very simple. The petals are made using the loop technique, and the green leaves using the French technique.
For a ring, the petals are woven a little smaller than for a pendant. The diagram above clearly shows that the first loop consists of three beads, and the larger violet consists of five. Each violet consists of ten petals, five of which are small and five are large.
You need to weave 2 green leaves to the violet and attach it all to a round base with holes and to a blank ring, which also comes with a round base with holes, on which it is very easy to sew flowers.
The chain for the pendant can be made from beads, just dial it to the desired length and attach a clasp at both ends. Attach a loop to the pendant.
