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Requisites:
(click here for information on beads
& wire)
- brass wire (0,30 mm)
- green wire (0,31 mm)
- purple beads, size 11/0 (you
could replace the purple beads by white or pink beads)
- flower stem/stalk wire
- brown flower tape
- flower pot
- clay
- gypsum
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- String a large amount of purple
beads on a brass wire.
Turn 12 beads together into a loop, 10 cm from one wire end and create
a little stem of half a cm.
- 1 cm ahead, turn another 12 beads
together and create another stem of half a cm. Leave about half a cm
space between the little stems.
- Turn loops according to the
following sequence:
(12-12-, already made)
11-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-5-5-5-5-
6-7-8-9-10-11-11-12-12.
- Fold the wire and twist the wire
together between the loops.
- Repeat this action until a the
loops are opposite of eachother.
- Fold all the loops in the
direction of the top to create the flower.
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- Create 81 branches using basic
technique 5.
Create these branches using the following amount:
1 x (4-), 8 x (4- 4-)
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- Take a 25 cm iron stem and fasten 3
flowers to the top with a piece of flower tape.
- Wind down the stem half a cm with
brown wire.
- Fasten a green twig to the stem
with a piece of flower tape and wind down 1 cm with brown wire.
- Fasten a flower with a green twig
to the stem with a piece of flower tape and wind down 1 cm with brown
wire.
- Fasten another flower with a green
twig to the stem and wind down 1 cm with brown wire.
- Fasten the last flower with a green
twig to the stem and wind down another cm with brown wire.
- Fasten the remaining 5 green twigs
to the stem and leave half a cm space between the twigs.
- Wind down 2 cm with the brown wire.
Create 9 little branches.
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- Take the 3 branches and fasten them
with flower tape, one cm under the green twigs.
- Wind down, across the flower tape,
1 cm under the green twigs, 3 cm of brown wire.
Create 3 big branches.
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Finishing the tree:
- Fasten the 3 big branches with
flower tape, 3 cm under the green twigs. Wind down 3 cm.
- Wind down the brown wire 3 cm
across the flower tape.
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Put the little tree in a nice flower-pot in a base of clay. Fill the rest of
the pot with gypsum so that the clay won't dry out.
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