How to make beaded LED flowers

Beaded LED flowers

Difficulty: ★★★★★

Time: One day

From scrap: ██░░░░░░░░ 20%

Preamble

You can make a lot of beautiful things of bead, but can they be compared with beauty of glowing beaded flowers, which you can make yourself? So lets look at instruction of how to make LED flowers.

Materials

• Multi-colored beads
  
• Wire (for weaving or transformer wire)
  
• Stand by hookah with lighting effects
  
• Wire in insulation
  
• LEDs
  
• Green thread
  
• Vase
  
• The sand or paint

Tools

• Cutters
  
• Soldering
  
• Scotch
  
• Gluegun
  
• Drill

LED flowers



• Wire

  
  Let's start. For weaving beaded flowers you need multi-colored beads. The more colors you have, the better colorful bouquet you can do. I usually use wire from the transformer, but now this can be purchased at specialty stores for needlework.
  

  



How to make beaded flowers



• Step 1

  
  Make one, and then put them together into bouquet. Cut a piece of wire to the desired length, and string one bead on it.
  

  


• Step 2

  
  Bend it into two equal parts.
  

  


• Step 3

  
  String more 2 beads
  

  


• Step 4

  
  String and protract them
  

  Pull evenly

  
  

  

  
  So you achieve 3 beads construction like this
  

  


• Step 5

  
  Do a next row, but with 3 beads
  

  Central bead can be made of a different color, to get two-colors petals.

  
  

  


• Step 6

  
  Continue weaving, increasing each time by one bead. In my case, the width of a petal is 6 beads.
  

  


• Step 7

  
  Next reduce the number of beads on one until we get a symmetrical petal. After this, twirl both ends of wire to fix all construction.
  

  After this, twirl both ends of wire to fix all construction.

  
  

  


• Step 8

  
  The second leaf is woven in the same way as the first, but when it comes to the widest point, one end of a wire inserted between the rows of the first petal.
  

  


• Step 9

  
  Continue weaving, inserting end of a wire between rows of nearby petal.
  

  

  
  And now we have joined petals
  

  


• Step 10

  
  Get 5 or more beaded petals
  

  

  
  And there is the last petal. It connects to two neighbour petals.
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 11

  
  Pull them together into bouquet. I made 15 beaded flowers
  

  



Backlight



• Step 1

  
  It is based on hookah stand with backlight. It has LEDs with different colors, and illuminate progressively changing color.
  

  

  
  Disassemble it
  

  


• Step 2

  
  Desoldering LEDs from the board and solder the wires desired length.
  

  


• Step 3

  
  Place LEDs in the center of each flower
  

  


• Step 4

  
  Make a stem. Wound wire with green thread
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 5

  
  We don't need holes in the stand, so they have to be dispose. Seal outside surface with duct tape
  

  


• Step 6

  
  And seal inside surface with hot glue
  

  


• Step 7

  
  And make a hole for led flowers with diameter of the bouquet
  

  

Done. Now we need a vase


Vase



• Step 1

  
  Make a hole in the bottom of vase with diameter as bouquet of beaded flowers
  

  

  
  

  


• Step 2

  
  Attach it onto stand
  

  


• Step 3

  
  To hide a holes on a stand's surface, just color it with paint, or cover with glue and place some sand on it.
  

  


• Step 4

  
  Connect wires
  

  


• Step 5

  
  And plug them to the curcuit
  

  


• Step 6

  
  Beaded flowers are attached to vase with gluegun
  

  


• Step 7

  
  That's all. Now you need to just insert batteries, turn off the light and enjoy your LED flowers!
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  Author: great killerlot

Video

There is some video with demonstration of beaded LED flowers

Results and tips

• Weave colors of beads - is quite hard work, do not despair, if not immediately succeed. Try to evenly tighten the wire at each step.
  
• There is a strange circuit connecting LEDs in a stand for hookah, it is possible to use another.
  
• This is probably the most profitable homemade gift with the highest ratio of cost / beauty
  
• Bouquet of LED flowers could be used as a night light

Tags: beads, LED