Materials needed:
1) Silk Chiffon - A 62" X 12" strip.
2) Matching sewing thread.
3) Beading needle.
4) Translucent blue cup sequins - 200, ranging from 5 - 8 mm diameter.
5) Blue metallic bugle beads - 1/4 oz (6 g).
6) A few 4 mm matte blue faceted glass beads.
7) A few 8 mm matte blue faceted glass beads.
8) A few 2 mm clear seed beads.
9) A few 2 mm clear blue seed beads.
10) A pair of scissors.
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Instructions:
- Trim the edges of the chiffon to give it a square appearance.
- Sew a hand-rolled hem onto the scraf in matching thread to give it a neat look.
- Thread the beading needle with matching thread. Fix this at the lower part of the scarf, about 1/3" from the long edge.
- Next, you have to add the beads. Bring the thread-filled needle to the proper side, pass through a bugle bead and take back to the wrong side.
- Bring the needle out again 1/4" away and parallel to the long edge. Pass through another bead.
- Repeat the process again and again to have bugle beads in an 8" long line. Hold all the beads firmly in place with a double stitch.
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 Stitch a line of beads, 12 clear seed beads followed by a few 4 mm faceted glass beads with some 8 mm faceted glass beads coming after with blue seed beads on either side, parallel to the bugle beads and about 3/4" away. Repeat the arrangement and finish off.
- Stitch about 8 seed beads for the third row, spaced as earlier.
- Next, add a variety of sequins keeping seed beads in the middle of each.
- Raise the needle through the hole at the centre of the sequin.
- Sew a seed bead and take the needle back to the wrong side through the hole.
- Starting at different distances from the end, continue sewing beads in lines of varying lengths across the short end of the scarf.
- Repeat Step 2 and Step 4 to decorate the other end of the scarf in the similar manner thus also securing each row.
- Ensure that the two ends are decorated the similar way.
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