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Beaded Snow Angel |
Bead a Tiny Snow Angel Doll using Brick Stitch, Tubular Peyote Stitch and Seed Beads
Have
you seen the Tiny
Witch Doll for Halloween? Wouldn't she make a perfect little
Beaded Angel, too?
What You'll Need to make your own Beaded
Angel:
Around 300 size 11 pearl seed beads per Beaded Angel
1 4mm round faceted crystal bead per Beaded Angel
5 size 11 bronze or gold seed beads per Beaded Angel
Note: All
beads referred to are size 11 pearl seed beads unless otherwise
specified.
To begin, pick up 8 beads and tie them in a circle.
Leave a long enough tail to weave back into the body of the doll
later. Go forward though the bead next to the one your thread is
coming out of. Pick up 20 more beads and go back through the first of
them. Then go through the back of the circle bead you originally
left. Continue through the next circle bead and repeat. Do this 8
times total, adding a loop to each circle bead. This creates the
angels skirt. For a more elegant angel, increase the number of beads
in each loop.
To
build the angel's torso, treat the original 8 bead circle as a base
for Even-Count
Tubular Peyote. Add rows until there is a stack of three beads
over each circle bead.
Close
off the tube by going through the four beads added in the final
round. Go through them several times until they stay put.
Now
we need to make her some wings. With a new needle and thread,
construct two brick
stitch wings from the following graph. (Using white beads of
course.)
Attaching
the wings to the body is not hard, but it is a bit difficult to
explain so please bear with me for a moment. In the tube that forms
the angel's torso there are eight vertical columns. Although each of
these columns are made up of the same number of beads, four of them
are taller then the other four, are you with me so far? Align the
doll so that one of these taller columns is at the front, one in back
and the other two at the sides. Line up the wing with the back of one
of the tall side columns so that the four beads marked with arrows on
the wing graph are next to the four beads that make up the column.
With your thread coming from the back of the top bead in the column,
sew down through the second bead from the top on the edge of the
wing. Go back through the body bead you left and down through the
body bead underneath it. Now go down through the third bead from the
top on the edge of the wing and back through the second body bead.
Continue looping though each wing bead and back trough the body beads
until all four beads are attached. Weave over to the other side of
the body and attach the other wing in the same way. Both wings should
tilt up and back as a result of this procedure.
To
finish assembling the doll, weave up to the top bead in one of the
tall side columns. Pick up your crystal bead and 5 bronze seed beads.
Go back down through the crystal and through the top bead on the
other side of the doll. Go back up though the crystal and the 5
bronze beads once more and back down again, re-entering the body of
the doll through the opposite side of the first bead you left. Weave
your thread into the doll to secure.
Make
two and attach earring wires through the halo for earrings, or attach
one to a pin back, or make three and do both!
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