Welcome to the beaded bird pattern instructions! This pattern was generously created and donated to all of us by our fellow beader BeeJang. If you have any difficulty following this tutorial, please post a comment at the bottom of the page, and I'll do my best to help, or if I am unable, I will inform BeeJang of the difficulty.
Before you begin ...
Materials:
- Swarovski Bicone Crystal 4 mm. Jonquil or Aquamarine : 24 pieces.
- Swarovski Bicone Crystal 4 mm. Crystal or Light Azore : 5 pieces.
- Swarovski Bicone Crystal 4 mm. Topaz : 1 pieces.
- Swarovski Bicone Crystal 3 mm. Jonquil or Aquamarine : 7 pieces.
- Pearl 4 mm. : Black : 2 pieces.
- Acrylic round bead 8 mm. : Clear : 1 pieces. (It should be in clear color but I don't have it in stock so I used Lt. blue glass pearl bead.)
- Seed beads
- Nylon Thread No. 20
- Note that size 6 seed beads could be used instead of crystal bicones to make this beaded bird
Time required: 1 hour
Techniques: Beadweaving, right angle weave
Difficulty: Easy
About the beaded bird:
I know they're very cute. Haha. This doll is a great start for those who want to try beading a crystal doll. It needs few crystal and is not difficult to make. The pattern is taken from Bead De Bead #8. I love Bead De Bead. They got many lovely designs and the patterns are very clear and easy to understand.
Tips:
- If you're confused, just turn the doll as in the picture. You'll see where you have to put the thread.
- Follow the pattern. I highlight the crystals and paths of the thread.
- Making a doll requires putting the thread back into the same crystals, you should use small thread.
- Actually, the body of the doll is similar to a ball. That is to string crystals into many level of circles.
Step 1: Cut the nylon thread around 110 cm. String four crystals and join both ends at a crystal (red arrow).
Step 2: Pick up the right string and add three crystals. Join both strings at a crystal (red arrow).
Step 3: Put the left string inside the nearby crystal from the first ring (red arrow).
Step 4: The outside string adds two crystals. Join both strings at a black pearl (red arrow).
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| Allegra on December 28, 2008: | |||
| Oh that's great! Sounds so cute! If you want to show you cute birdie off to us, post a picture of her in the forum! We'd love to see her! | |||
| Mangie on December 27, 2008: | |||
| Wow that's so cool! I didn't have any swarovski beads or any fancy crystals/bicone beads so I used 2mm long bugle beads! I now have a small pink beaded bird handing off my phone. I love this pattern~ The instructions are so clear! This site is amazing. | |||
| Allegra on November 2, 2008: | |||
| Does LBS stand for local bead stores? Hehehe, had to use good old reason to figure that one out. Anyways, that's too bad. I guess you're right about the top dollar being for the name. Like paying a million bucks for a Picaso (or now that he's dead, maybe 100 million LOL!) or haggling for a $100 deal on some dude doing an identical imitation of it. Or $10 for a reproduction. LOL! And yeah that's true about the low turnout. Oh that's too bad. You get paid less for doing the same thing. | |||
| Jax on November 2, 2008: | |||
| I think big events can get away with charging top dollar, the ones I looked at for BABE (Bay Area Bead Extravaganza) were in that range plus you had to bring some stuff and some even had kits to buy that were more. These are all done by "known" people so you pay for the name. I found the instructions free online for the one i was thinking about doing. LBS can't charge that much and don't get as big of a turnout so a lot in my area aren't doing many anymore. | |||
| Allegra on November 1, 2008: | |||
| Really? I always thought that beading classes were really profitable. I've seen the prices listed on the internet for bead show classes, and they were usually in the $200 range. I just assumed that it was a cash cow for the organizers. The expenses are that high?
Carrie, let me know when your beading site is up and running and we'll put something together. Good luck and can't wait to see it! | |||
| kayote on October 31, 2008: | |||
| Great pattern and instructions. My local bead shop wants to turn things into classes which is a great idea but the cost of supplies and class make it so pricey it's hard to justify. Your instructions are wonderful. Thank you for sharing! | |||
| Michele on October 26, 2008: | |||
| Maybe smaller beads would help it look just a little more like a bird. I see the bird in the face, but the body is a little vague. It also seem quite complicated. | |||
| carrie on October 26, 2008: | |||
| thats good idea :} never thought of that! | |||
| Allegra on October 25, 2008: | |||
| Hi Carrie, so sorry it took me so long to respond! I'm a student so I've had a lot of midterms recently (actually I still have 2 more next week). Sure that would be great, and I'll be happy to post pictures of your products and link them back to your site as well. This is a good idea for linking up all the patterns on the internet so people can easily find them. I've also got Christine from beadjewelrymaking.com interested in the idea as well. Might as well consolidate all our efforts in a united front! | |||
| carrie on October 21, 2008: | |||
| reaaly? you'll let me put pics of ur products on! yay! dont worry i will give u credit and i will also post ur website link on myy site so ppl who go to my site can check out urs too :} | |||
| Allegra on October 21, 2008: | |||
| Hi Carrie, I don't want to alienate you, I think we can be friends. I wish you luck in your website and to provide the world with beading patterns! It just seems fair that each person's work remain theirs because of just how much work it is!! Each pattern that I make takes two weeks of work from start to finish, with a few hours daily of working on it. Especially the animals. Sometimes the animals take about a month to finish. But I'd love to see your site when you've got it going. But you're welcome to take the pictures of my final products and post them on your site and tell your visitors where they came from. I can do the same for your patterns as well (post the final product and point to your site), just to facilitate people on the internet finding beading patterns more easily! | |||
| aida zayas on October 20, 2008: | |||
| thank | |||
| carrie on October 19, 2008: | |||
| omg! yay! avin has a hello kitty pattern i can use and a chick one and a bag. theres so many! | |||
| carrie on October 19, 2008: | |||
| i hve an idea do u think i can make one of these dolls and then make my own diagram ad instructions? would that be fair? | |||
| carrie on October 19, 2008: | |||
| nevermind... i just use avin cuz he already volunteered to contribute some | |||
| Allegra on October 19, 2008: | |||
| You're certainly not unwelcome. We're not saying don't start a beading website. But maybe to start it out, make your own patterns, and then when you get more established, allow others to contribute, and they will come to you with their own contributions. If you start with nothing and just try to get other people's patterns, they might not be so willing to contribute because you're not giving something back. It's like you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. It's not a question of poaching but a question of equal sharing. I hope you understand, and you're certainly welcome here.
In my first response to you, I was being a bit satirical because I was trying to draw attention to the fact that you should try making your own patterns to start out just to sort of gain people's trust. As for Beejang's pattern, I worked for many hours to crop and photoshop all of Beejang's work so I don't know that you can just ask Beejang's permission alone. This is a sticky issue. | |||
| Jax on October 19, 2008: | |||
| I am sorry if you feel attacked. Copyright is a serious issue that really makes people angry when they feel you have "copied" something of theirs. I hope it doesn't discourage you from making a site, just that you go about it in a way that protects you. I also hope you have a thick skin, not all artists are as willing to share their work with you as Allegra is which is why most sites you find also have a shopping cart and check out features and huge lists of how and when you can use their patterns, how many you can make of each pattern before you should buy it again, and whether or not you are allowed to sell items you make. I have seen some sites go as far as to say you are agreeing to only print one copy and you are not even allowed to save the pattern to your computer. Just so you know what you are up against trying to get other people to just give you their hard work. | |||
| carrie on October 18, 2008: | |||
| Before I go can I have beejangs email to contact him/her? | |||
| carrie on October 18, 2008: | |||
| maybe I should.....I see I'm probably unwelcomed here now cuz I'm only here to "poach";( | |||
| carrie on October 18, 2008: | |||
| I understand wat ur trying to say but I mean I would ask them first before putting them on. But if u don't want to make a site that's ok.....;( I'm sry I was just trying to help...... | |||
| Allegra on October 18, 2008: | |||
| That sounds like a good solution, Jax. Carrie, reproduction of existing content is not really useful on the internet. But it is a really good idea to make a directory of all the animal patterns available for free on the internet. So keep looking and feel free to make that directory, but as for just copying and pasting their stuff onto your site, I think you'll get into a lot of problems and maybe offend some people. Good luck! | |||
| Jax on October 18, 2008: | |||
| Hi Carrie, I hate to be so blunt but it sounds like you are just wanting to 'poach" other peoples work and place it on your site. It takes a lot of time and effort to create a beading pattern and very few people give them away for free like Allegra does. Most patterns I have found charge. Before you do something like this, I would suggest you have a good knowledge of copyright laws to protect yourself. I have seen copyright questions asked in beading forums about what is ok and what is not ok to repost from something someone else has made and it becomes explosive. Everybody has a different opinion and a lot of people will go through what ever it takes to prevent their stuff from being shared in any way. If you overstep boundries with one site and a forum gets wind of it, you will be judged by every member of that forum at the very least. Having a bad reputation in the beading community is not the way to have a great site. Most sites I have been to have things allowing you to place their link on their site, like this one does. Unless you are going to create your own original work, posting links to sites you find would probably be your safest bet. | |||
| carrie on October 17, 2008: | |||
| allegra would u mind if i used some of your instructions? | |||
| carrie on October 17, 2008: | |||
| well idk yet... lol i think ill just ask around for patterns and stuff hehehe. btw u did a fab job on this. i hope my web will be as good as urs :} | |||
| Allegra on October 17, 2008: | |||
| That's a good idea to gather patterns rather than make your own because it's so hard and time-consuming to make your own beading patterns!! Where are you planning to gather them from? I must warn you it's hard to post other people's patterns as well. It took me two full days of work to put together Beejang's lovely beaded bird pattern here because I had to crop together each photo and photoshop it for improving the color quality and vividness. Boy, that took hours of work! | |||
| carrie on October 16, 2008: | |||
| dear beejang can i upload this to my web? | |||
| carrie on October 16, 2008: | |||
| thx beejang and allegra
btw beejang if u have patterns for the chinese zodiac plz post them! in the near future i hope to gather a bunch of patterns and make a website devoted to making beaded animals only! if i do make a website i will post the link here! | |||
| cj on October 9, 2008: | |||
| its cute. i'm makin it w/ red. | |||
| Maria Teresa on October 6, 2008: | |||
| Lovely, Allegra! Thank you! | |||
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