Description

French beaded flowers pattern: prairie sunflower PDF

About this project:

Prairie sunflowers are wild flowers commonly found in North America. These daisy like-flowers are small compared with the sunflowers we are used to. This prairie sunflower project uses a combination of size 11 and size 15 seed beads.

This project uses intermediate techniques. For the basics of French beading techniques, refer to these tutorials:

• Basic Frame
• Continuous Loops
• Lacing

Materials:

• 30 grams 15/0 Color A dark yellow seed beads- Miyuki opaque luster yellow
• 5 grams 15/0 Color B light yellow seed beads- Miyuki opaque luster lemon ice
• 1 gram 15/0 brown seed beads – Miyuki transparent rainboow rootbeer
•  60 grams 11/0 green seed beads – Matsuno dynamite transparent rainbow emerald green
•  26 gauge copper-core gold wire
•  28 gauge copper-core green wire
•  24 gauge copper-core green wire
•  30 gauge copper-core green wire
•  5 lengths of 18 gauge stem wire – about 16 inch (40 cm) lengths
•  1 length of 16 gauge stem wire – 18 inch (45.7 cm) lengths
•  1 skein green embroidery Floss
•  Green floral tape