DIY FLOWER BASKET

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Beadwork is a quite popular way today to decorate a home interior, giving it warmth and coziness. For modern craftswomen, under the power of a product of any complexity, from elementary "children's jewelry" to full-fledged compositions. But to master this art is not at all difficult even for a child. On the contrary, a sophisticated children's imagination is able to give products originality.
For modern parents, whose children go to grades 1-3, the problem of amateur performance is very familiar. For almost any celebration, a child should bring to school what kind of thing - do not have a do-it-yourself handicraft, but mothers and fathers often have to do it. This article will discuss how to make an original and, most importantly, not too complicated gift for a school from beads.
To make a flower basket, you will need a wire for weaving and, in fact, beads. The amount of beads needed depends on its size. Mandatory for this craft is beads of brown and green colors (for a basket and leaves), but the color of the flowers themselves can be anything, it completely depends on the desire of the master. It will take about 1.5 m of wire and 25-30 grams of beads.
The finished product should consist of the following parts:
1. Flower 1 (Chamomile);
2. Flower 3 (Southern whip);
3. Basket;
4. Leaves.

To create any product from beads, you must first prepare everything you need. To make one chamomile, you will need 20 cm of wire and 2-3 grams of beads (170-180 pcs). First you need to make a fastening loop, and then dial 16 pcs of beads and thread the loose wire through the fastening loop. It turns out an empty petal.

It is possible to fill the petals with beads immediately, or it is possible after the manufacture of 5-6 petals, i.e. whole flower.

To fill the empty space you need to string 8 units of beads and make a loop around the petal. In total, 5-6 flowers are needed. To create the second type of flowers, you need to make a loop and string blue beads on the wire to make a 5 cm strip. You will need 3 such segments. After that, connect the free wire from three segments, threading it into green beads. The basket is easy enough. First, 5-6 units of beads are collected, which are connected into a ring. Then there is an increase in rows (the number of beads in each row should increase by 3 pcs). The result should be a basket height of 6-7 cm.

For the leaves you need green beads. First you need to make a fastening loop. After which, do the same with the following rows. The number of units of beads in each row should increase by 1 or 2 pcs.

From the ninth row, the amount of beads in the same way should be gradually reduced.

It will take 4-5 leaves. After creating all the necessary elements, you need to connect them. To do this, flowers and leaves are woven into the basket with free edges.