I chose fiery colours for today’s flower. This one is herringbone stitch with a bit of square stitch around the petal edges and it’s meant to be a peony. The orange petals were supposed to have some more beads on them but I got a bit lost in the pattern and thought it looked ok as it was! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a peony in real life anyway. Lol.
I really enjoyed making today’s flower, which is a fuschia. It uses herringbone for the tube, brick stitch and 2-step brick stitch for the petals, a kind of loopy stitch for the inside flower and then some simple fringing for the stamens.
I’m moving onto tubular flowers today and this is the first – isn’t it pretty?! It’s a combination of herringbone stitch for the tubular stem and peyote stitch for the petals.
First of all some good news. Bead magazine has accepted another one of my projects! This time it’s for one of my book thongs, which I’m really pleased about : )
At the moment I’m working my way through The Beader’s Floral by Jill Devon and Liz Thornton. It’s a fabulous book and I’d highly recommend it to any beaders who love flowers. Hopefully I’ll be learning how to create a new flower every day and posting photos of the finished flowers as I make them. Eventually they’ll all be made into one piece of jewellery – no idea what, I haven’t actually planned that far ahead!
Here’s the first flower, a Stargazer Lily made with herringbone stitch.
