How to make a yarn wrapped bead necklace from the book Creative Cloth Doll Collection by Patti Medaris Culea

This tutorial on how to make a yarn bead wrapped necklace is doll-size since it's from the book Creative Cloth Doll Collection: A Complete Guide to Creating Figures, Faces, Clothing, Accessories, and Embellishments, but who says you can't make a life-size one for yourself to match?

Click on this page from Creative Cloth Doll Collection to enlarge and read the full tutorial on how to make a yarn wrapped bead necklace.

Creative Cloth Doll Collection:

A Complete Guide to Creating Figures, Faces, Clothing, Accessories, and Embellishments

By

Patti Medaris Culea

This book is a compilation of the first four of Patti Medaris Culea's bestselling books: Creative Cloth Doll Making, Creative Cloth Doll Faces, Creative Cloth Doll Couture, and Creative Cloth Doll Beading. 

This comprehensive book guides readers through all the basics of creating cloth figures, with step-by-step fully illustrated instruction. Readers get complete patterns to create several styles of dolls, many with interchangeable parts. The book provides methods for creating beautiful faces, hair, garments, clothing, and supplies instruction in a wide variety of surface design techniques including dyeing, painting, stamping, beading, applique, hand and machine embroidery, image transfers, using Tyvek, and more. For further inspiration, the book also includes a gallery of doll designs by other leading doll artists, all made using the patterns from the book. 

 

Comments

[patty Clark]

I was unable to download and print the whole technique page for making wrapped beads. It only allowed through direction #1.
Thanks for all your ideas.