As the festive season of Christmas nears, the excitement for the day continues to escalate proportionately. Preparations in terms of decoration, purchasing, meeting up with loved ones, etc take full swing. Candles, lights, cakes, gifts, and Christmas goodies are the most popular glimmers that make this festival the most cherished one. Towards our efforts to a great season, homemade Christmas fabric beads may prove to be the perfect item. The beads can be used to make a variety of decorative accessories, ranging from jewelry to puppets. As per your creative bandwidth & requirement, fabric beads may be made in different sizes & shapes.
Things required:
• Spare fabric pieces
• Glue
• Needle & thread
• Scissor
• Cardboard sheet
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Steps to make fabric Christmas beads:
• Choice of cloth: To start with, collect any type of fabric pieces of various texture & sizes to make fabric beads. Cloth of any material can be used, as long as they are bright and colorful, so that the beads made out of them look attractive.
• Master cut: Take a cardboard sheet and cut out a circle. The size of this cardboard piece should be double to that of the beads required.
• Fabric circles: Keep this cardboard cutout on one of the cloth pieces, and cut along the borders. This will help us get the clothes in perfect circles and render a nice shape to the beads.
• Filling: Do not throw away the small, extra cloth pieces, left out during tailoring. These can be used as a filling for your beads.
• Hemming: Stitch the edges of the cut out cloth pieces so that a thread passes along its sides. Keep the stitches close enough to reduce the size of wrinkles.
• Pouch making: Once the complete circle edges have been stitched, pull the free ends of the thread such that borders of the circle start coming together in the form of a small pouch.
• Filling: Through the open end of the pouch, moderately fill in the waste cloth material kept aside.
• Tying loose ends: Pull the free ends of the thread tightly, closing the open end to form a ball. Two cross-stitches on the either sides of the ball will tighten it completely.
• Final changes: As an enhancement, apply a thin coat of glue on the bead and sprinkle some glitter over it. Fabric paints with glitter can also be used.