How to Use Hand-Beaded Glass Beads on Wall Hangings

Dangles

• 1

  Cut a 36-inch long strand of beading thread. Slide the eye of the beading needle over one end of the thread to the center of the strand. Hold the ends of the thread even. Knot the ends of the thread together.

• 2

  Insert the beading needle through the fabric wall hanging, from back to front, in the desired location of the beaded dangle. If the hand beaded glass beads are to become fringe for the wall hanging, insert the needle through the bottom edge of the wall hanging. To dangle the hand beaded glass beads on the face of the wall hanging, insert the needle through the fabric to coordinate with the top of the dangle.

• 3

  Pull the thread through the wall hanging until the knot stops it. Slide any combination of glass seed beads, 1/10 to 1/6 inch beads and the hand beaded beads over the needle and thread to the wall hanging. Flank the hand beaded beads with 1/10 or 1/6 inch beads to add flexibility to the strand and to enclose the larger holes.

• 4

  Slide a glass seed bead over the needle to rest against the last bead in the strand.

• 5

  Skip the seed bead and pass the beading needle back up through all of the beads in the strand.

• 6

  Pull the thread taut. Insert the needle through the wall hanging at the top of the beaded strand. Knot the thread on the backside of the wall hanging.

• 7

  Follow the same process to add beaded dangles along the bottom and top edges and/or anywhere on the face of the wall hanging.

Stationary

• 8

  Thread a beading needle with 24 to 36 inches of thread. Bring the ends together and tie a knot.

• 9

  Insert the needle through the wall hanging, back to front, slightly above the desired location of the hand-beaded glass bead. Pull the thread through the fabric until the knot stops it.

• 10

  Slide a 1/10-inch or 1/6-inch glass bead over the needle to the fabric. Slide a hand-beaded glass bead over the needle to the first bead. Slide the same size bead as the first bead over the needle to the hand-beaded glass bead.

• 11

  Hold the beads against the wall hanging. Insert the needle through the fabric from the front to the back to anchor the three beads. Pull the thread taut.

• 12

  Knot the thread on the back of the wall hanging. Cut the excess. Repeat the process to attach stationary beads to the face of the wall hanging as desired.