Sequins are called thin shiny plates made of plastic. They are used to create various jewelry and for embroidery on clothing. But, among other things listed, also allow you to create wonderful paintings from the sequins with your own hands. Beautifully look at great work performed by sequins, especially in combination with beads and beads. Such popularity among the needlewomen, material acquired due to the fact that it has a large selection of colors and forms, allows you to create plot patterns.
Necessary materials
The choice of materials for work depends on the basis of the future picture. In the standard set must be sequins, beads, threads for sewing, needle, glue, cloth or cardboard. You can perform patterns from sequins by the method of sewing on a fabric or fixing on a dense base.
- Sequins are produced by sampling in bags or assembled on the braid. The last look is convenient for decorating clothes. Spray squeezes have more diverse shapes, sizes and colors. When choosing, you should pay attention to quality. Painted can quickly lose the paint layer and look not aesthetic. Colored sequins from plastic longer will keep the initial look. These are in the form of circles, leaves, hearts, stars, squares, flowerfish;
- The size and type of needle is selected depending on the size of the hole in sequins and from the type of fabric;
- The thread is better to choose a strong - lavsanova, silk, monofilament, thread for beads. The color may be to the tone of the sequins or contrasting;
- Beads can coincide in color with sparkles or have a different color;
- We certainly need to stock pattern, drawing, photo of the finished product.
Production option
Sequins on a dense base can be fixed with glue or carnations. If the base has a greater thickness, then you can use for fixing with small thin carnations. You can take a thick cardboard for work, a wooden board, foam.
To create a panel or picture you need to prepare:
- base - cardboard, paper, foam;
- glue or nails;
- Sequins;
- diagram or pattern;
- Frame for registration.
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Additionally, it may be necessary: tweezers, beads, a small container, from which it will be convenient to recruit sequins. Before starting work, the drawing sketch is applied with copying or extrusion. After that, you can proceed to laying out and fastening the sequin. Fix two techniques - simple rows or in the form of a mosaic. Simple rows are used to create lines and contours. Mosaic technique is convenient to apply for "filling" the size of the pattern. First the first row is attached, and the next row shifts a step equal to half the sequins.
Completed type of work will give a beautiful frame. This option for creating a picture is suitable even for children of preschool age. But it should be remembered that it is possible to work with a nail and a thermal system only under the supervision of adults.
Brilliant panel
Embroidery sparkles on the fabric allows you to decorate your clothes and create an original picture. The embroidery process requires certain efforts and patience, but the result is worth it.
Important moments that should be considered when performing work:
- Strictly adhere to embroidery patterns.
- The work is recommended to perform on the chambers, it will speed up and facilitates the sewing process and help attach the sparkles more evenly.
- The sewn sequins should not change their position and bend if they hold on them.
- It is impossible to iron the iron. This can lead to loss of color and appearance.
- It should be reliably fixed the thread at the beginning and end of work, preventing this dissipation of an embroidered fragment.
- To fasten the sequin on the fabric you can use a glue gun.
Now we will analyze the main types of stitches for fastening the sequin:
Seam in 4 stitches used if you need to securely fasten the sequins. Each of them is fixed with several stitches. One is taken, applied to the fabric, the needle with the thread is made from the wrong side, the stitches are made towards the center to the edges. Stitches should be hidden under two or three beads.
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The appearance of the "fastening of beads" is known for the fact that the needle is displayed here at the fastening site of the sequence. Next, a sparkle, a bead and a needle, which through the hole of the sequence goes to the wrong one through the hole. It is possible to seize several beads.
There is a seam "back needle", where the needle with a thread comes out on the face of the fabric through the middle of the sequins, then it rises on the right, it turns out to be left and, through the middle of the sequin, goes on the purple part of the fabric. Such seam gives a reliable fastening, due to the fact that each of them is sewn into two stitches. Continuous seams are made ahead with a needle, stitches on the front of the fabric fastened securely sequence.
"Secret stitches" are performed as seam "back needle", but the subsequent sequin is half overlaps the previous one. What makes it possible to fully hide the fastening threads. But it should be borne in mind that the performance of such a seam will require a larger amount of sequin.
The creation of the picture itself is similar to the above described above. A sketch of a picture is applied to the fabric and first the sequins are sewn along the contour or fixes. And then the main drawing and background is filled. Create panels and paintings from sequins is quite easy, the main thing is to understand the process.
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