How to make a brooch

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How to make a brooch

Sometimes homemade jewelry is not inferior tobeauty of purchased jewelry. Moreover, such decorations are exclusive and can become a pleasant and unexpected gift. We will tell you how to make a brooch made of felt - accessible and easy to handle material. So, let's start making a pretty brooch "Ladybug".

To make a brooch "Ladybug", prepare the following materials and tools:

• felt red and black;
• two black beads;
• white and black beads;
• pin-fastener;
• black and red thread floss;
• scissors;
• glue;
• cardboard;
• thin needle.

Manufacturing process:

1. We cut out patterns from cardboard. Torso - circle with a diameter of 5 centimeters with semicircle-head (sort of rounded pear). Wings are a circle with a diameter of 5 centimeters with one cut sector (the distance between the wings). A circle with a diameter of 1 centimeter.
2. By patterns, we cut out pieces of felt - a black trunk, 4 black little circles, red wings.
3. We paste black specks on the red workpiece - two on each wing.
4. We take a black thread and we sew black circles with white beads with the help of a suture seam.
5. We impose the wings on the black billet of the trunk and glue both parts together.
6. We take a red thread and black beads. We begin to coat the wings: inside the carved sector along the edge of the red workpiece, along an imaginary line dividing the wings in half and the edge of the red workpiece under the protruding head of the ladybug.
7. To the back of the workpiece we sew the pin, trying to make it only sewn to the black felt.
8. Further we enclose the black beads of the edge of the jointred and black felt - the contour of the wings. Note - the edges of the black felt (where it does not come into contact with the red workpiece) are not beaded beads. We just sweep them with a black thread.
9. At the end of the work we sew two black beads to the head - these are the eyes of the ladybug.

That's all! Our original and pretty decoration is ready! Now, knowing how to make a brooch with your own hands, you can make exclusive jewelry not only from felt. You can make a brooch, completely woven from beads or collected from beads. You can make a brooch-flower from silk or from chiffon. The main thing is to do everything with pleasure and constantly improve your own skills. Good luck!