beaded poinsettia

December 6, 2011 @ 9:05 am · Filed under Other Crafts, Tutorials

This is my 6th year of crafting a poinsettia every year, to mark the holidays – it’s my little personal crafty tradition. I try to come up with a different technique every year, and I like to share it with you in case you’d like to make one too, or to whet your appetite for a craft you may not be familiar with and may like to investigate further.

tsumami kanzashi poinsettia by planetjune crocheted poinsettia by planetjune
polymer clay poinsettia by planetjune punchneedle poinsettia by planetjune

Top (L-R): 2006 kanzashi poinsettia; 2007 crocheted poinsettia
Middle (L-R) 2008 polymer clay poinsettia; 2009 punchneedle poinsettia
Bottom (L-R) 2010 felt poinsettia; 2011 …?

The 2011 PlanetJune Poinsettia is a 3D beaded design. I used beading wire, seed beads, and the Victorian beading technique to create a 7cm (just under 3″) diameter poinsettia.

Victorian beaded poinsettia by planetjune

Once you’ve mastered the simple Victorian beading technique, it’d be easy to change the look to create different flowers by using different colours of beads, and by altering the number of beads on each row to create differently-shaped petals and leaves.

As an aside, I think this will be my last poinsettia tutorial – I had a few hours of beading fun, and then it took me the best part of 2 days to photograph, write and edit the tutorial (definitely work, not fun, and it took far more time than I had to spare). So, while I hope I’ll be able to continue to create and share my annual holiday poinsettias, I’ll take the pressure off myself by just crafting them for fun in future 🙂

Anyway, I hope you like my 2011 poinsettia design and that you’ll enjoy my final poinsettia tutorial!

Go to the Beaded Poinsettia tutorial >>

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Linda Landreth said

November 25, 2017 @ 2:29 am

I love the poinsettia. Made with wire but will do another with 22 gauge wire. Your directions are so clear. I am a beginner and wonder if you have addition bead patterns.
I’m willing to pay for the pattern. Thank you so much forsuch a wonderful bead pattern for Christmas .

Donna said

December 10, 2011 @ 10:03 am

What a great idea! Your poinsettias are beautiful! I’m going to try this with snowflakes-a new technique every year…this year I will tat one and who knows what next year…thanks so much for the inspiration 🙂

Lindy said

December 6, 2011 @ 10:57 am

I love your Victorian beaded Poinsetta! It’s absolutely gorgeous.
Love, Lindy xx

Meg P said

December 6, 2011 @ 9:53 am

Thank you so much — and you shouldn’t have to do anymore tutorials (at least for a while); we now have 6 to choose from! Having done just traditional beading (where it’s attached to a ground of paper or fabric), I can’t imagine the challenges of beading in the air. Lovely work, as usual, June!

June said

December 6, 2011 @ 11:58 am

Thanks, Meg! But it’s really not difficult; using wire makes it very easy – it’s so stiff it keeps itself held in place. I first tried this type of beading with thread instead of wire and it was much more difficult (and ended up being all floppy after all my hard work!), so wire’s definitely the way to go 🙂

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