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The pictorials are illustrated with spaces between beads for a clearer direction, in the actual beading, there should be no spaces.
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Beaded Clover Lucky Charm :
What you need:
1) Glass seed beads, size 11/0, 2 different colors
(dark green, light green).
2) One long eye pin.
3) Beading string (0.25mm)
Always Remember to pull tight on EVERY STEP.
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| Step 1: |
Cut a piece of beading string around half meter long.
- Add four light green beads on the middle of the string, crisscross both string through the last added bead, shown where both arrows exits from.
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| Step 2: |
- Continue to:
Add three light green beads on the right (black) string, crisscross the left (red) string through the last bead added.
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| Step 3: |
- Continue to:
Add two dark green and one light green beads on the bottom (red) string and crisscross the other end of the string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the red string (the one you just used to add new beads on) through one old bead from step 1 marked with A.
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| Step 4: |
- Continue to:
Add two dark green beads on the bottom left (black) string, crisscross the bottom (red) string through the last bead added.
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| Step 5: |
- Continue to:
Add three dark green beads on the right (black) string and crisscross the other end of the string through the last bead added.
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| Step 6: |
- Continue to:
Add three dark green beads on the top (red) string, crisscross the bottom (black) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the red string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through one old bead from step 3 marked with A.
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| Step 7: |
- Continue to:
Add two light green beads on the bottom right (red) string, crisscross the top left (black) string through the last bead added.
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| Step 8: |
- Continue to:
Add three light green beads on the top (red) string, crisscross the bottom (black) string through the last bead added.
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| Step 9: |
- Continue to:
Add three light green beads on the left (black) string and crisscross the other end of the string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the black string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through two old beads from step 7 and 3 marked with A
and B.
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| Step 10: |
- Continue to:
Add one dark green bead and crisscross both strings through this added bead (shown where both arrows are exiting from).
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| Step 11: |
- Continue to:
Add three dark green beads on the left (black) string and crisscross the other end of the string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the black string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through one old bead from step 3 marked with A.
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| Step 12: |
- Continue to:
Add two dark green beads and crisscross both string through BOTH the newly added beads.
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| Step 13: |
- You have finished one side of the clover leaf. The center lightened beads will not be used to pass strings again but all the still darkened beads will be used in later steps to pass strings through.
You will be continuing from step 12 with the same string but beading a second layer to cover the lightened layer.
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| Step 14: |
- Continue to:
Add two dark green beads on the top (red) string, crisscross the bottom (black) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the red string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through two old beads from step 11 marked with A
and B.
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| Step 15: |
- Continue to:
Add one dark green bead and crisscross both strings through this new bead (shown where both arrows exits from).
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| Step 16: |
- Continue to:
(work only with the left black string in this step)
Add two light green beads on the left (black) string and continue to pass the same black string back down through two old beads from step 9 marked A and B.
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| Step 17: |
- Continue to:
Add one light green and one dark green beads on the top left (black) string, crisscross the other string (red) through the last added bead.
Continue to pass the black string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through one old bead from step 14 marked with A.
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| Step 18: |
- Continue to:
Add two light green beads on the top left (red) string, crisscross the bottom right (black) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the red string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through two old beads from step 2 marked with A
and B.
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| Step 19: |
- Continue to:
Add one light green bead on the left (black) string, crisscross the right (red) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the black string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through two old beads from step 1 marked with A
and B.
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| Step 20: |
- Continue to:
Add one light green bead on the top (black) string, crisscross the bottom (red) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the black string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through one old bead from step 18 marked with A.
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| Step 21: |
- Continue to:
Add two dark green beads on the bottom (black) string, crisscross the top (red) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the black string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through two old beads from step 5 marked with A
and B.
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| Step 22: |
- Continue to:
Add one dark green bead on the bottom (red) string, crisscross the top (black) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the red string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through two old beads from step 6 marked with A
and B.
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| Step 23: |
- Continue to:
Add one dark green bead on the left (red) string, crisscross the right (black) string through the last bead added.
Continue to pass the red string (the one you just used to added new beads on) through two old beads from step 21 and 17 marked with A
and B.
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| Step 24: |
- Continue to:
Add one light green bead to crisscross both strings through.
Continue to pass the red string through two old beads from step 8 marked with A
and B.
Continue to pass the black string through one old bead from step 9 marked with A.
Tie off and pass the excess strings back through the piece (no specific order) to hide it and for a more secure piece.
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| Step 25: |
- Putting it together:
Take the long eye pin, curve the tail slightly.
Add eight dark green beads on the pin and pass this eye pin through the center of the clover leave piece you just made.
Leaving around 1 cm of pin left on the top (cut excess away). Use a round head pliers and curl up the 1cm excess of eye pin on the top to form a hook for you to hook on anything as a charm.
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