If you are ready to join the heavy hitter beaders out there and ramp up your beaded ornament covers a notch or two, then you must go over to Creative Beadwork Books. Laura Jansen is the “it girl” when it comes to designing elaborate and knockout beaded ornament covers. She also sells relates supplies I believe like little hangers so you can show these off all year long (unless you have cats who would find it a fabulous cat toy).

When you lay this flat, it looks like a flower with each section of beads working as a petal. These are some of the fastest ornament covers to make too. The stitching is similar to netting, but you make really large net sections for this.
You can find the complete instructions here: “Flower Petal Ornament Cover.”
Again, these make great bead type gifts to give. You just have to make sure your receiver of the gift understands that they put it over a glass bulb, or you may want to buy a bunch of bulbs to give away with these. Check discount …read more

I always say I’m going to make a ton of these one day and give them as gifts. I have given out a few, but not the dozens that I imagine. Though, really, they don’t take all that long to make compared with most bead weaving projects because it uses one of the most user friendly bead weaving stitches known, netting.
I say user friendly because netting is a great stitch for beginners, but even old pros will enjoy how these turn out.
You’ll need two color of size 11 seed beads, matching beadint thread, beading needle, and some tiny glass side-drilled …read more