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Felt beads: A how to.. Make awesome padded felt beads into brooches, accessories and jewellery. What you need: *Basic craft tools, needles etc *Pieces of thin coloured felt *Coloured cotton/thread *Selection of seed beads and other small beads in a variety of colours and shapes *soft toy filling * Buttons and sequins Step 1. Cut out pairs of shapes in different sizes too. Step 2. Working on one bead at a time to decorate, use small pieces of felt and layer on top, sew these around the edges in coloured thread then add beads in any pattern or colour you wish until the whole piece is covered. Step 3. Then put the second felt side piece underneath and stitch with an overlocking stitch until there is a 1cm gap left open, using tweezers stuff the bead with toy filling the sew the gap closed and fasten off. Step 4. Once you have made a variety of shapes and sizes you can sew together to make bracelets or necklaces, hair accessories and even brooches.
SIZES
SHAPES
DECORATION
Add depth by making different sizes.
Make different bead shapes such as
Embellish with as many different
circles, squares, oval, star, heart, tubes and even letters or numbers.
colours, finishes and items such as, seed beads, ribbon, sequins, buttons, crochet flower etc
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