Speak embroidery is not for me? Too complicated and long? Then try embroidering a brooch. A detailed master class will help even a novice to cope with the creation of an exclusive decoration. The result will delight you.
I’ve been doing brooches for a long time, I used to embroider completely from beads. It turns out beautifully, but with the help of one bead you can’t convey all the subtleties and nuances of details (for example, like a beak and plumage of a hummingbird). Therefore, I decided to add satin embroidery to the beads. And so I liked it, that I began to embroider brooches only in this technique, combining embroidery and beads.
Life hack: how to translate a pattern for embroidery on felt using a marker
You will need:
- felt (tight),
- mouline thread (dark and light lilac, yellow, blue and brown),
- monofilament for beads (thin fishing line for sewing beads),
- beads (various shades of lilac, yellow and blue, one black bead per eye),
- fasteners for brooches,
- glue moment
- a piece of plastic from packaging or cardboard.
Step 1. Making a Hummingbird Pattern
You can draw a hummingbird yourself or take a finished drawing from the Internet. Having drawn the contours of the bird on paper, we cut out the template and circle it on felt.It turns out such a workpiece.
Step 2. Stitch embroidery
First, we begin to embroider with mauve thread in dark lilac threads (in two threads), making stitches of various lengths, starting from the head from the base of the beak, as if repeating the plumage of a bird.
We embroider the wings and the body, adding stitches of light lilac color. We embroider the beak with brown threads.
The abdomen is embroidered with yellow threads. Add blue and yellow stitches to the wings and tail. Leave the edges of the wings and tail not embroidered. We will then sew on the beads.
Bird of Happiness: DIY Brooch
Step 3. Beadwork
We embroider the edges of the wing and tail with lilac, yellow and blue beads tightly to each other so that, if possible, the felt would not be visible.
On the body and wing of the beads we sew randomly and at a distance from each other. Sew the black bead onto the eye.
Step 4. Attaching the Clasp
We cut hummingbirds with manicure scissors along the contour of the embroidery, leaving 1 mm of felt for allowance for the subsequent design of the edge.
On the reverse side of the brooch we glue a hummingbird template from plastic (from the packaging) or cardboard so that the brooch is more durable and does not break. Also glue the clasp.
On top, making holes for the fastener, glue a piece of felt. We put a brooch under the press (fastener down on something soft, such as a mattress, and on top heavy, such as an iron), so that everything sticks together and the fastener does not damage the felt. Then with manicure scissors we trim the excess felt along the edge.
Do-it-yourself brooch "Bottle" of beads and sequins
Step 5. Edging
In order for all layers of the brooch to hold well, you need to sheathe the edge. I did this with a brown thread so that a clear outline of the bird is outlined.
This is the most time-consuming process, as stitches need to be done as tightly together as possible to completely close the edge of the felt. But without this, the brooch will not look complete.
Thanks to all! Enjoy the creativity!
How beautiful to wear a brooch
The author of the master class and photo: Olga Shirokova
Olga is a psychologist by education, she works with children in kindergarten. Working with children always stimulates creativity and imagination.
Since childhood, she likes to sew, knit. She mastered embroidery, modeling from polymer clay, makes flowers from foamiran. Favorite directions: making brooches (in various techniques), knitting, patchwork.
She leads her needlework channel with detailed master classes on Yandex. Zen
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