Exploring Handmade Beads
Downloadable Tutorial
Handmade beads are one of my favorite embellishments. They are fun and easy to make and a great way to use up all those small scraps of favorite fabric. You can use handmade beads on all your creative projects including wearable art and art quilts, and they are ideal for times when you need a unique embellishment to color coordinate with your projects.
This tutorial is a 16-page pdf document and explores 12 different techniques for making handmade beads including:
Fabric Beads
- perfectly round fabric beads
- soft and semi-rigid fabric beads
- frayed edge beads
- texturized fabric beads (using your needle felting machine)
Machine Needle-lace Beads
Tyvek Beads
- two-color tyvek beads (heat tool required)
- thread wrapped tyvek beads (heat tool required)
- triangular tyvek beads (heat tool required)
- fabric/tyvek beads (heat tool required)
Lutradur Beads
- perfectly round lutradur beads
- lacy lutradur beads (heat tool required)
Angelina Fiber Beads
If handmade beads aren’t your thing, you can also check out my other downloadable tutorials for Photoshop Elements, Fabric Paper and Printing on Fabric!
Did you Know?
All the downloadable tutorials are free for members of The Creative Explorer’s Club – if you’re not a member yet you can find membership details here.
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