See how to make a brooch from beads, felt. A simple master class will teach this even to children. We also offer to make a brooch from ribbons, for you there are several options to choose from.
If you are interested in a question regarding how to make a brooch, then now you will learn how to create such jewelry. Show the children how to make these items and get them interested.
How to make a felt brooch with your own hands?
For this job you will need:
- beige and orange felt;
- beads for eyes;
- ribbon;
- safety pin;
- scissors;
- thermal gun;
- needle with thread.
Before making a brooch, first draw a brooch template out of paper or cardboard. Then you will attach it to the orange felt and cut out two blanks - for the front and back of the product.
Take beige felt and cut four ovals out of it. Sew or glue these blanks in place. Two ovals will become the eyes of the cat, to make its pupils, sew dark beads here.
Here's how to make the brooch next. Take a white thread, use it to make a few stitches that will turn into a mustache, cat's eyebrows. Also use this thread to connect the front and back of the jewelry. When doing this, use a looped seam or over the edge. Tie the animal with a satin ribbon or felt bow, and sew a brooch pin on the back. You can decorate this product to your liking, this is how wonderful it will turn out.
You can make a brooch using not only felt, but also beads. You will get a beautiful, shiny product. This will be helped by the following master class with step by step photos.
How to make a beaded brooch with your own hands?
Take:
- felt;
- beads;
- sew-on rhinestones;
- thread with a needle;
- fishing line;
- cardboard;
- a pin for a brooch;
- oval beads;
- glue.
First, cut out the base for the bird from the felt. Now you can draw its outline with a water-emitting marker or immediately type several beads on a thread, sew to create the contours of a bird from this material. Sew on a large oval bead that will become a foot, attach an eye, a beak. Now close the tail with beads and move on to the body of the bird.
Sew on four identical feet. Now attach the bird template on the back of the brooch, cut off the excess felt. Cut the same part out of leatherette. Sew brooch fasteners to it. Join the felt with the leatherette and over the edge sew these two pieces together.
Here's how to make a beaded and felt brooch. If you liked this needlework, then watch another master class. As a result, you will create a decoration in the form of a cat. Children will be happy to make such a brooch when you show them the stages of work.
Take:
- thermal sticker with the image of a cat;
- threads with a needle;
- fasteners for a brooch;
- beaded threads;
- glue "Moment Crystal";
- beads;
- a piece of leatherette.
There are special beaded threads on sale that are durable and durable. They will also facilitate the stages of work, since you do not need to wear one bead at a time, but you can use a number of these elements at once.
Take a thermal sticker with a picture of a cat, glue the eyes here. Begin sewing on the beads, placing it first in the center and then gradually moving towards the edges. Use white beaded threads, and on the outside decorate the animal's face with individual black beads.
Here's how to make a beaded and fabric brooch next. Attach the cat template to the back of the felt, cut off the excess. Sew the brooch fasteners to the leatherette.
Now place the leatherette on the back of the cat, then you will need to join these two types of fabric with a seam over the edge, but try so that the threads are practically invisible.
How to make a brooch from ribbons with your own hands?
See how a similar decoration is created.
Take:
- a circle of cardboard with a diameter of 5 cm;
- beige yarn or jute rope;
- lace;
- fasteners for a brooch;
- silk ribbons;
- felt or similar fabric;
- stamens for flowers;
- lilac yarn;
- beads;
- a piece of leather or a metal decorative sheet;
- hot glue gun;
- crochet hook;
- PVA glue;
- the cloth.
Cut a circle out of cardboard, and from linen it should be 7 cm in diameter, and about 5 cm from felt. Put a circle of linen cloth on the circle of cardboard.
Glue with PVA, and wrap the edges in the other direction and also glue.
Tie a ring like this out of jute rope until the glue on the base of the brooch dries.
Glue this ring to the jewelry, also attach the clasp, on the other side, glue the circle of felt.
Now take a piece of fabric, fold it in half and start twisting a flower from this blank, gluing the turns.
Cut a piece from the lace, make a kind of fan out of it, glue or sew on these folds. Make a flower from a satin ribbon, also create such loops from this material, tie other flowers.
Now we need to arrange the elements on the decoration. Here's how to make a brooch from ribbons further. You can see how the small elements were assembled by gluing them to each other. There will also be a metal leaf, stamens. Then it remains to sew or glue the artificial pearl.
Here's how to make a brooch. See how wonderful it turned out. Other workshops will help you make equally interesting brooches from satin ribbons. We offer to make a brooch-tie using the kanzashi technique. To do this, first take four pieces from a lace ribbon and the same amount from a rep ribbon. The size of these strips is 13 by 4 cm. Place the lace on top of the ribbon, make eyelets. Connect four pieces to make a bow.
Now from the rep ribbon make 24 x 2.5 cm segments. Attach them and create the next part of the bow. Also form such a shape from two pieces of lace and a rep ribbon measuring 20 by 4 cm.
Take a strip of lace, sew on one side with a needle and thread to form a circle by pulling on the thread. Cut a strip of 14 by 2.5 cm from the rapeseed tape, bend the edges on both sides, connect them in the middle, glue the circle made here, and also attach the flower in the middle.
Then, from the resulting elements, form a brooch with hanging ends that need to be cut at an angle. Attach the clasp on the back. Here's how to make a ribbon brooch.
The second master class with a step-by-step photo will tell you how to make a brooch from ribbons so that it turns out to be so voluminous and round.
To craft it, take:
- satin ribbons 5 mm and 25 mm wide;
- scissors - curly and ordinary;
- piece of felt;
- pin;
- a needle and thread;
- beads.
Step-by-step photos show what materials you need to take, how to prepare them. Cut 20 pieces from the green ribbon, each 8 cm long. You will also need a square of felt. Now fold each ribbon in half and sew it onto this fabric brooch base. Place these petals tilted towards each other.
Now turn the same felt square into a circle using curly scissors. Stick it on the back. And on the front side, you additionally need to decorate a brooch made of ribbons with narrow satin stripes of yellow color, you will also need 20 pieces, but each is 5 cm long.
Now you also need to decorate the circle on the back with the same yellow petals. It remains to glue or sew three beads in the middle of the brooch, fix the pin on the back of this product.
The third master class with step-by-step photos will help you make a charming ribbon brooch in the shape of a flower. To do this, you need narrow satin stripes in three colors. You need to cut the pink into 7 cm pieces, the blue ones will be 6 cm long, and the yellow ones will be 5 cm long.
Work the tip of each piece with a fire flame. Now place the three ribbons one on top of the other, starting with the large one and ending with the small one. First form a petal from a small strip by wrapping it and sewing it with a thread and a needle.
Now place a longer workpiece on top, you need to arrange it as well. The most elongated petal completes this stage. Make several similar blanks and sew them together.
Now you need to attach a beautiful bead in the center, and fix the brooch clasp on the back side. It will turn out to be an amazing thing, and doing it is not difficult at all, like the next one.
The next master class with step-by-step photos will allow you to make such a bright brooch from satin ribbons.
Cut off a 20 cm long piece of the red tape. Put some glue in the middle from the wrong side. Pull the edges of the tape in here and fix them in this position. Glue this tape onto the black strip.
Also, fold the edges of the dark strip by gluing them. Make another one of the same blank. The next strip needs to be formed from a decorative red ribbon and a black one.
Connect all these blanks together, evenly distributing them. In the center, attach the fastener on the back, and fix the decorative elements on the front.
And here's how to make a brooch from ribbons so that it turns out with floral motifs. For this you need rep ribbons.
The photo shows what needs to be prepared.
Take a colorful felt, cut a circle out of it around the diameter of the button. Make a small slit in the back of this fabric to insert the button leg. Gather the ribbon into a ring and sew it onto the pink felt circle.
Iron the resulting workpiece lightly, twist the narrow green ribbon, then glue this edging around the button. Glue the button itself to the frill of the tape, fix the pin on the back by attaching a piece of felt and two ribbons to it, the corners of which need to be cut off at an angle to the middle.
And if you need to create a decoration in the form of a bow, then see how to make a brooch from ribbons to give it, for example, for Christmas.
First, take a wide red satin ribbon, wrap the edges back and glue them in this position. Sew in the middle with a needle and thread. Make the same blank out of a red striped ribbon and attach it to a large scarlet one. On top you will need to attach a green ribbon and tie it with a striped one.
Using scissors, make these curly blanks from 10 small striped green segments. They need to be sewn together, and then sewn in the middle of the bow. Attach the clasp on the back, after which the ribbon brooch is ready.
Here's how to make decorations using a small amount of materials. See how to make a beaded brooch. Such an activity requires concentration and attention. But the result will certainly please.
And how to make a brooch from ribbons is described in the second video.
