Cultivating Your Beaded Floral Garden Series Part 4 – 4: Christmas Chrysanthemum

Christmas Chrysanthemum by Brenda Franklin is an intermediate bead embroidery pattern for creating dimensional floral embellishments. No formal finished measurement is listed, because the flower size varies by application; the ornament is built on 1¼” cardboard discs with 2″ to 3″ backing fabric circles, and one flower takes approximately two hours. Skills involved include preparing fabric and cardboard, padding with cotton, starting and finishing thread, stitching bead stacks, forming bugle bead petals, shaping flower rows, adding optional leaves, finishing a two-sided ornament, creating a beaded hanger, and embellishing a scarf. The needlework technique used is dimensional bead embroidery.