Kit de broche à broder de perles « Baleine bleue »

“Blue whale” is a whale in dark blue beads with bronze and gold sequins.

What the picture shows

The whale swims to the left, its tail raised and forked. The back is worked in dark blue and violet microbeads, the belly lighter, shading into greyish blue. Forty-one sequins of two kinds fall along the sides and the tail as gold and bronze patches, so the skin looks wet. Rondelles in five kinds are spaced along the back, and nineteen bugle beads in three kinds mark the pleats on the belly — the same grooving real whales have. The eye is a single pearl, and five more pearls are scattered over the body. The kit holds 22 bead colours. Inside the outline the canvas is stitched densely, then cut out.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with a full-colour design printed on it — no need to follow a chart on screen
• Czech Preciosa beads, 22 colours
• Preciosa microbeads No. 13, 4 colours
• Preciosa beads No. 6 — 2 types (10 pcs)
• A microbead embroidery needle
• Thread for bead embroidery
• Decorative glass stones: hemisphere, rondelle — 5 types (13 pcs), bugle beads — 3 types (19 pcs), pearls — 6 pcs, sequins — 2 types (41 pcs)
• Bullion wire — 8 cm
• Findings for assembling the brooch: a decorative clasp
• Step-by-step illustrated instructions for the embroidery and for finishing the piece

Specifications

• Article: AD-239
• Finished piece size: 79×47 mm (3.11×1.85 in)
• Base: art canvas with a printed design
• Bead colours: 22
• Number of beads: approx. 457
• Difficulty: average
• Technique: bead and stone embroidery, brooch assembly

The finished piece is 79×47 mm and reads as a horizontal. The level is average: there are many small elements, but the large areas are even. It is fitted with the decorative clasp from the kit; the blue paper in the photograph is a styling prop. The stones and findings are already matched to the design, so nothing else needs to be bought.