How do I stick 2mm size beads on my work?
I’m doing a sort of craft for my friend. I used very tiny beads (2 millimeter diameter) to make shapes and alphabets, then stick them one by one on the fabric. It’s a kind of fabric wrapped around a board.
I did it before and the result was horrible. I used very sticky glue, but what happened was that everything became messy and all the beads did not go at the place I wanted. I was doing a very specific heart shape and in the end not only things look bad, the beads also fell out very easily because their size was too small and the glue isn’t working effectively.
Please help me. I’m going crazy over this because I only have days to finish it and I couldn’t do it nicely. When I arranged the beads according to the shapes I wanted without glue, everything looks perfect, the way I want it. But with the glue, it’s all wrong. I tried putting the glue first on the fabric then stick the beads, but it only makes the fabric wet. Help…………….
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You can stitch them on yourself which might take longer but could help keep them intact.
There would be several ways of doing this.
You could use glue, but you didn’t say the *type* of glue you’re using which could matter a lot.
( I also don’t understand if you’re attaching pre-made “shapes & alphabets” to the fabric, or if you’re doing the hearts right on the fabric but not successfully, etc.)
Anyway, you can use glue to do this but you’ll want to use a thick “tacky” glue or use a white “fabric glue” (they’ll all dry clear) to draw your shapes (use a nozzle tip, or just use glue on a toothpick, but be sure and drag the nozzle/toothpick/glue down into the fabric a bit too so it’s not just sitting on the top fuzz of the fabric. Then lay the beads one at a time into the glue and don’t move the board while they set up and dry (keep nudging them back in place in the beginning). If you put the beads holes-up, the glue will hold even better because it will come up into the holes a bit.
Once you’re done and everything is dry, you can completely cover all the beads again with a coat of thinned-down permanent white glue (or fabric glue which is the same thing), which will keep them on even better.
If this will be washed, or just as a more traditional way of doing beads on fabric (bead embroidery, etc), you’ll probably want to sew them on. You can do that one bead at a time (with thread that matches the fabric or the beads), or more commonly you can put several beads on the needle for each stitch like this:
http://blog.amarylliscreations.com/2010/07/bead-embroidery-stitches-1
http://www.prettyimpressivestuff.com/stitches/Beadedbackstitch_files/Beadedbackstitch_frames.htm
Fabric Glue… is meant for… well fabric. So that’s not going to hold your beads on. Try this stuff… you can stick ANYTHING to ANYTHING. I would recommend squirting it on a plate or something and applying it with a brush though.. cause this stuff comes out in big glops. http://www.artbeads.com/e6000-02.html?cmp=shopping (it’s called e6000 – you can buy it at walmart or Michaels). Less is more with this stuff… the more glue you have the more your beads will move around and not dry where you want it.