Mini Bead Embroidery Kit on Art Canvas "Luck bird"

“Luck bird” places a blue peacock with a long tail inside a flowering, vaguely eastern ornament.

What the picture shows

The bird is shown in profile — deep blue neck, a small crest, a yellow beak — and below it the tail opens into turquoise and green eyes laid out in rows of beads. On the left, large flowers of pink, blue and yellow petals overlap one another; on the right, a yellow bloom and curving stems. A yellow sun shines in the top left corner, and a dotted line of pink beads marks out the frame. The pale blue ground with its printed scrolls is not beaded — the stitching holds the drawing, the print gives it air. The eyes of the tail are beaded as small rings of four or five beads, and it is these that make the tail look three-dimensional. The petals of the large flowers on the left are built from three colours laid over one another in layers.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with a full-colour pattern printed on it — no chart on a screen to follow
• Czech Preciosa beads, 11 colours
• Beading needles
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Instructions and a finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 150×150 mm (5.9×5.9 in)
• Base: art canvas
• Beads: approx. 1,765 in 11 colours
• Difficulty: simple
• Technique: bead embroidery

The subject is calm and almost ornamental, so the finished work suits a living room as easily as a bedroom. Eleven bead colours and a 150×150 mm format — easy to work into a group of several miniatures. The frame is chosen separately.