Tutorial - Face Cabachon

Stonebrashcreative has a great tutorial for shaping your own face cabachon. Check it out!

Basic Bead Stitches for Beaded Art Dolls

Rather than recreate tutorials that others have already done really well, I have searched for and listed them here for your convenience.


PEYOTE STITCH

First of all if you are going to use a face cabachon, you need to make sure it isn't going to fall off.
The peyote stitch is useful for attaching the face to the doll. It's also a nice filler stitch.

The shoes and mouth filler are Bocche stitch. The shirt is backstitch and the rest is peyote.

DOUBLE NEEDLE PEYOTE STITCH

RIGHT ANGLE WEAVE - RAW

I think this is very elegant as a filler stitch. To me RAW looks femine and peyote more masculine but are similar. You can also do so many fun things by varying the number and size of the beads.

The body is right angle weave using different sized beads.

The blue beads are RAW with Swarovski crystals in the center. The green around it on the leg is also RAW.

BOUCLE, BOCCHE, MOSS STITCH

Quick filler stitch, adds texture.

The skeleton face is done in Bocche stitch.

BACKSTITCH
Useful for basic bead embroidery stitches.



FRINGE
Can use for embellishments, or even better, hair!


LADDER
I use it to make tassels and little cobs of corn.


PICOT
Nice finishing stitch for edgings.

Hair Tutorial

Here is a quick and easy way to make cool hair. Choose a piece of fabric with cool color variations such as a batik. I used a fat quarter. Tear the fabric vertically trying to get 1/8 " strips. Fold the strips in half and sew to head. It works up really fast. (Although, I hestitate to try this with my own thinning hair!)