To make a brooch you need:
- oval cabochon;
- beads of three colors (red, beige and pearl);
- soutache 3 colors (pink, raspberry and light lilac);
- sew-on oval rhinestone;
- glossy beads 4 pcs. two colors (gold and mother-of-pearl);
- large beads - 19 pcs.;
- cardboard, felt and leatherette, pieces of 15 cm;
- needle, isothread (or fishing line), scissors, Moment glue, pin.
Let's get started:
1. Sheathing the cabochon.
Glue the stone to the felt.
We take the beads and start sewing them in a circle. To begin with, we thread three beads, and then add one each time. The needle must be returned every two previous beads. Only then will the beads stop dancing.
Here's the wrong side.
We make the second row in a herringbone pattern with every 4 beads.
Third row: string the middle herringbone beads and thread 3 beads. So, we carry out until the last bead and in conclusion, we go through the entire row again. We tighten the stone.
We form two adjacent knots. We cut the line.
2. First curls with soutache.
- We cut off the excess felt and start working with soutache.
To do this, we decide on the middle and begin to sew the cord at the bottom.
We try to insert the needle correctly so that the product turns out even.
On the sides of the brooch we form curls with gold beads. We firmly fix the soutache to the felt with fishing line. We cut the cord and singe the ends.
- We trim the top edge of the stone in the same way, but we don’t use beads.
3. Take large beads - 13 pcs. And we firmly sew it to the rows of soutache.
4. Take small red beads and make the next row encircling the side beads.
5. Let's start working with rhinestones. We sew it to the felt and braid it with beads.
We make a row with pink and raspberry soutache.
We sew the element to the bottom of the product, exactly in the middle.
6. Sew a row of beads between the middle beads and the rhinestone.
7. We also trim the element with rhinestones with beads.
8. We make descending curls from the side beads with mother-of-pearl beads. We try to sew all the curls together so that they don’t diverge later.
9. We fill the remaining space with three large beads, while we wrap them around them with soutache.
This is what you should end up with:
Wrong side:
10. We outline the product with a pencil and cut out an element from thick cardboard. We cut the same element, only a little larger in size, from leatherette.
11. We insert the pin, first into the cardboard, and after gluing it to the brooch and into the leather part. By the way, we also glue leatherette. We put all this under the press and wait for the glue to set.
12. We begin processing the edge of the brooch. We take small beads and sew them to the product using a simple overcast stitch.
At the same time, all layers are perfectly fixed, and the edge comes out neat and beautiful.
So our “Naughty Girl” brooch is ready.
Try to sew such a brooch yourself using my master class, and you will definitely succeed! Good luck!
