Creative themes through the seasons
- Easter crafts
- Flag garland
- Christenings
- Wedding Decor
- Summer crafts in the garden
- Halloween decor
- Christmas preparations
Wooden bow tie to personalize
Personalize your wooden bow ties by engraving sweet words and choosing the ribbon
Personalize your wooden bow ties by engraving sweet words and choosing the ribbon
Making a table garland
In just a few steps, here's how to make a long table garland, in colors for a black and white Christmas décor, but to soften the black, golden Montana grey pearls are combined with Crystal AB pearls (transparent crystal).
This garland has the particularity of having a beautiful span, since 5 other small garlands cross it at 5 points along its length, each crossing being decorated with a silver bow tie...
Materials required
- silver-plated cable wire, total approx. 2 metres
- 5 nickel butterfly-knot clips
- 17 silver-plated crush beads for cable wire
- approx. 330 faceted beads in 3mm Czech crystal, in Crystal Ab
- approx. 200 faceted beads in 4mm Czech crystal, in Montana with golden highlights
- approx. 300 transparent seed beads, silver heart
Cut a 1m length of cabled wire (this is important for the flexibility and strength of the garland, as the weight of the beads cannot be accommodated by simple nylon wire).
Make a loop with seed beads and secure the loop by passing the 2 ends of the wire through a crushable bead (leave the wire a few centimetres long, so the first beads strung will hold the 2 wires). Crush the pearl with flat-nose pliers.
Thread approximately 15 cm of facets (alternating 5 Gris montana facets, one small Crystal facet).
Then thread a pearl to be crushed through a 24 cm length of thread, center this length and crush the pearl. Place a butterfly-knot fastener on top (diagonally), pull tight.
On either side of the short length, string beads: around 8 to 10 small crystal facets, then a Gris Montana facet, etc... Keeping an element of randomness will create a beautiful effect...
Stop threading 4 cm from the end to make the loop: first thread the bead to be crushed, then around 22 to 25 rocailles and pass the end of the thread back through the bead to be crushed and the preceding beads, tightening and crushing the bead.
Continue, leaving around 25 cm between each small garland that crosses the main one, and making a 2nd small garland with a length of wired wire of around 27 cm, the small central garland around 36 cm long and the last 2 of symmetrical size to the previous ones.
Ready to wear or to give as a gift, find this long table garland and Christmas star on the "Bijoux et Perles" boutique.