Description

French beaded flowers pattern: cosmos PDF or PDF/Video Class – Level: Intermediate

There is nothing that screams Summer more than tall elegant cosmos billowing in the breeze and you can have forever French beaded flowers: beaded cosmos, with this new pattern. Is there anything more enchanting than a bouquet of cosmos in all the colors. They come in various shades of pink, white, red, and yellow.

Student Works: See more of my students’ beaded cosmos at the bottom.

French beaded flower techniques:

• Basic Frame
• Lacing
• Continuous Loops
• Scallops

What you’ll learn in this French beaded flowers tutorial:

Continuous Split Basic
Continuous Branching Fringe

PDF ONLY option:

PDF with 14 pages of step-by-step photo instructions with 76 photos

Vide ONLY option:

PDF with 14 pages of step-by-step photo instructions with 76 photos

Video Class option: You will get a pdf with pattern and Pdf with login info for video class.

PDF with 14 pages of step-by-step photo instructions with 76 photos
9 videos
- Overview 3:17 mins
- Budding Flowers 13:12 mins
- Flowers 29:16 mins
- Shading 9:40 mins
- Buds 7:56 mins
- Center 6:26 mins
- Sepals 6:13 mins
- Leaves 36:42 mins
- Assembly 35:17 mins

Materials needed for this French beaded flowers pattern:

70 to 90 grams 11/0 main color seed beads
50 Grams 11/0 green seed beads
10 grams yellow seed beads
1 gram brown seed beads
24 gauge main color copper-core wire
26 gauge gold copper-core wire
28 gauge green copper-core wire
30 gauge wire for lacing (main color, silver, or gold)
1 length of 16 gauge stem wire
7 lengths of 18 gauge stem wire
Light green floral tape
Embroidery floss (if flossing stem)

Beads

I used size 11/0 seed beads for this project. You’re welcome to use color choices of your own but if you like my color schemes, below are the specific beads I used:

I used several beads for the main color in the various samples.

These are some of the bead colors I used for these French beaded flowers petals:

11/0 Matsuno Dynamite matte pink
11/0 Matsuno Dynamite matte dusty rose
11/0 Matsuno Dynamite opaque rainbow white

Leaves/Sepals:

11/0 Matsuno Dynamite opaque rainbow emerald green

Center:

11/0 Matsuno Dynamite transparent rainbow yellow
11/0 Matsuno Dynamite transparent rainbow root beer

Wire

Petals:

We’ll be using 24 gauge wire for the petals. If you can’t find a main color wire that matches with your beads, copper or gold will work fine for pink beads. Silver wire can be used for white beads. I generally use silver wire with white beads.

Center:

Due to the small loops, 26 gauge wire is best. Using 28 gauge wire is also acceptable. Use gold or silver.

Leaves/Sepals:

Both of these units will use 28 gauge green wire. I do not recommend substituting with another gauge as you’ll need to be able to get the wire through the beads twice. In a pinch, you can use 30 gauge wire, but the units will be more flimsy.

Bud:

Using 26 gauge wire is best for the bud due to its size and tight spacing. The bud can be finicky for some to make and you may skip making this if you know your abilities. You can make another flower in its place instead.

Notes about this French beaded flowers: cosmos pattern

The majority of the units in this pattern are using cut lengths of wire. There are some things that could affect the length of wire you need to cut. Here are so factors in the wire lengths in this tutorial:

Beading tight or loose: I bead tightly. If you tend to bead loose, you may need to add more cut wire. I usually add a few inches in my estimates to accommodate beaders who bead more loose.
Japanese vs Czech seed beads: I used Japanese seed beads in this tutorial. If you use Czech beads, you may need to reduce the the length of wire needed.

Doubling or Tripling this French beaded flowers pattern:

The combination of how tight you bead with the type of bead used could affect the length of cut wire you need. If you are using Japanese seed beads and tend to bead tightly, you will be fine following my length recommendations.

If you are using Japanese seed beads and tend to bead loosely, you may need to cut 5 to 10 inches (12.7 to 25 cm) more to accommodate.

If you are using Czech beads and bead tightly, you most likely will need less wire. Make the first unit following my recommendations and then make note of what you need for subsequent units.

If you are using Czech beads and bead loosely, you will most likely be fine following my wire recommendations and then adjust for subsequent units.

This pattern/tutorial CANNOT be copied/reproduced or redistributed in any way. Pattern cannot be reproduced and sold for financial gain or used as a tutorial for a class. You may sell the item that is produced in this pattern with credit to “Fen Li, Bead Flora Studio” as the creator of the pattern in your online listings or on marketing materials if selling in person. Otherwise, this pattern is for personal-use only.