This is not my idea. I found the tutorial in Slovenian craft magazine called Unikat, but I think it's quite interesting so I decided to try it out and translate it.
Things you will need:
- 1 full box of 2,6 mm beads (the main colour)
- about 1/4 of a box of 2,6 mm beads in another colour
- Styrofoam egg (mine is 6 cm high and 4,5 cm at the widest part)
- beading needle (you can do it without the needle, but it's much easier with it)
- 0,25 or 0,30 mm fishing line
First tie one contrasted bead close to one end of the fishing line.
Add 3 beads in main colour + 1 contrasted bead + 3 beads in main colour... Make sure you have odd number of 3 beads. I have 9 times 3 beads here. If it's a bit too short for your egg, add a few beads at the first and last row so you have 1 yellow + 5 red + 1 yellow + 3 red +1 yellow+ ... + 1 yellow + 5 red + 1 yellow bead
When your string of beads is long enough, remove the last yellow bead a bit and go through the first 3 red + second yellow bead.
Tighten the line really well. Make sure the line is always tight or you will have gaps between the beads when you wrap the beaded net around the egg.
Add 3 red + 1 yellow + 3 red beads to the beading needle and go through the 4th yellow bead in the string. Tighten well and continue like this...
... until you get to the end of the string.
Then you remove the last yellow bead a bit and go through the first 3 red + second yellow bead.
Add 3 red + 1 yellow + 3 red beads to the beading needle and go through the 4th yellow bead in the string. Tighten well and continue like this until you can almost wrap the net around the egg.
For the egg my size the net with 12 "tails" in both ends is just perfect.
Wrap the net around your egg...
... and guide the fishing line through all the yellow beads on top.
Tighten the line well.
Go through the 3 red beads and the second yellow bead on the right.
Add 3 red bead to the needle, go across the gap in the net and through the 3rd yellow bead in the row. Tighten well.
Continue adding 3 red beads and stitching the gap.
When you add the last 3 red beads and go through the second yellow bead from the bottom, you actually go through the yellow and the last 3 red beads.
Tighten as much as you can.
Guide the fishing line through all the yellow beads on the bottom, tie a knot and hide the fishing line tails into the beads.
And this is the finished egg:
It's best if you can work with long fishing line so that there are no unnecessary knots in the middle of the net (I used 2 m for one net). the line has to be really tight all the time so the knot could untie itself.
Play with different colours of beads - use the leftovers and create lines. It's so easy and so much fun after you make the first one. Good luck!
I would love to hear some hones feedback about the tutorial as I have no idea if my ramblings can actually be understood well enough to successfully finish the project. I have to add that the tutorial in the magazine sounded horrible until I actually tried to do it. Then it was really easy and it made complete sense.
