Beginner French beading tips on how to be more successful in making French beaded flowers

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Beginner French beading tips on how to be more successful when making bead and wire flowers.
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Number 1. There are no strict bead counts. Most people that come to French beading have a background in beadweaving. In beadweaving patterns, there are specific bead counts. Throw all of that out of the window! In French beading, you’ll start out with a bead count for the center row, but as you are wrapping, the number of beads in the subsequent rows may vary from person to person depending on the type of beads you’re using and your own wrapping style. The petals can even vary in size if you have an extra bead somewhere or wrapped slightly differently. Look at this photo here. I started out with the same amount of beads, followed the same exact pattern but somehow, the petals look different. So don’t be discouraged if your petals look different than mine. I can’t even get mine to look like mine sometimes! Keep practicing and find your own style. Which leads me to my second tip:
Number 2 It’s okay if your first practice flowers are messy. Most beaders with a foundation in beadweaving expect their French beaded flowers to look perfect right away. That’s just not how wire works. It will be messy! And that’s okay. But you need to get started if you want to improve and have your flowers to eventually look like this!
Number 3. Working off of the spool. When making beaded flowers, we string what beads we can on a spool of wire and then make the flower components from the spool. String as much as you can while still being able to work off of. For example, this eucalyptus pattern calls for about 60 grams of beads. You can string just a few grams of beads and you will have enough to make the first few leavess and then string some more on. Then as you gain more experience, you will be able to gauge the length of beads you need in order to make a certain petal or leaf. It’s better to have more beads on the wire than not enough. Which leads us to the next tip….
Number 4. What do you do if you don’t have enough beads on the spool? There are times where even I miscalculated the amount of beads to string on wire. And when that happens, I wrap the bare wire around the petal for the remaining rows that I need, then I cut the bare wire off the spool and continue beading.
Number 5. Lace your flowers. Most beginners do not like lacing flowers because it’s not as fun as making the flower parts Lacing is basically sewing the rows together with very thin wire. That was me when I first started making beaded flowers. I made Virginia Nathanson’s cabbage rose pattern and did not lace.
I don’t need it, I said. It’ll look fine once it’s shaped, I said. No, it’s not fine. It was not fine.
Lacing is the secret sauce to taking your flowers to the next level. The other week, I was going through my storage tubs for some samples and came upon these beaded roses. Both are my own design. These two came straight out of storage and I didn’t do any shaping to either. This rose was laced and kept its shape. This rose, I didn’t lace for some reason. Can you see the difference? Straight out of storage and these are 10 years old! So super important tip. If a pattern calls for you to lace the petals, lace them.
And a bonus tip!
Floss your stems too! This is what the stem looks like flossed. And this is what a stem looks like if you just used floral tape. The floral tape degrades and can become less sticky over time and it can look sloppy.
That’s it! Are you ready to get started? My goal is to help you to have a successful start making French beaded flowers.

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@angiehowell6175 Жыл бұрын

I learned these tips the hard way. I've been making beaded flowers for years, by trial and error. Still don't have the lacing down and just heard of flashing. I think I spelled those right.