How To Make Fabric Beads

Fabric beads are easy and fun to make and can be used to embellish all your creative sewing projects. They are too a corking fashion to employ up all those small scraps of leftover fabric and fibers. This tutorial shows you several ways to brand embellished fabric chaplet.

What You Need

Fabric Scraps
Stabilizer
Decorative Thread
Krylon Gold Leaf Pen
Fabric Glue
1/4″ or iii/8″ wooden dowel rod

Embellish the fabric

Hither are a couple of simple and quick ways to embellish your fabric before you brand your fabric beads.
You tin can easily embellish apparently fabric using the decorative stitches on your sewing motorcar.

Cut a piece of fabric approximately 6″ square.
Identify a slice of iron on stabilizer underneath the fabric.
Thread your sewing motorcar with some Decorative Thread on peak, and some fine bobbin thread in the bobbin. Fine bobbin thread will help to prevent thread jams when sewing decorative machine stitches.
Cull your favorite decorative motorcar stitch and sew rows beyond the cloth from one side to the other.

Cutting the fabric into strips. My favorite textile bead size is about 1-1/two″ broad by about 2-3″ long and tapered to a signal at ane end.

An culling way to embellish evidently fabric is to draw a simple design using a Krylon Gold Leaf Pen. I beloved these pens every bit they work neat on fabric and I utilize them for all sorts of embellishment touch-ups. Cut fabric strips about 1-ane/2″ broad by almost ii-3″ long, or the desired size, and than advisedly draw a design on the fabric.

Make the material beads

On the right side of the fabric dab a bit of fabric mucilage to the squared off edge, and on the incorrect side of the fabric add some cloth glue along the tapered edges. So wrap the fabric effectually a piece of 1/iv″ or iii/viii″ dowel rod and press firmly to secure.

One time the glue has dried, you lot can then embellish the fabric chaplet with bits of fiber and chaplet if desired. This is a corking week-stop project and yous'll have dozens of fabric beads in no time at all!