Make your own 3D pearl animals

What you need:

• 1.30 meters of wire with a thickness of 2.5 millimeters
• 218 pearls, including:
• 5 pink ones
• 69 white
• 28 dark brown
• 2 black
• 114 light brown

You can make 3D pearl animals, for example guinea pigs

• First of all: You can express the face of a guinea pig and the optical highlights in the fur in a very impressive filigree way with the help of pearls.

• Pay attention to the Handcraft Make sure to tighten the individual rows of wires as tightly as possible in order to later obtain an even overall appearance.

• At the same time, this strength can ensure greater stability. This is how your 3D pearl animals become - it doesn't matter. which "race" - a cute eye-catcher.

Row by row to the "animal" eye-catcher

1. First take the wire in hand and then pull two light brown, one pink and two brown pearls on it.
2. Now pull the end of the wire through the pearls that have already been drawn and then add one light brown and two white pearls.


Pearl animal: penguin - instructions

Even with the right guidance, it is a bit of a challenge to make a penguin as ...

3. In the next row, after three light brown pearls, add one black, then three light brown, again one black and then three more light brown pearls.
4. Then the wire is pulled through the previously drawn beads again. Then put 12 light brown pearls on the next row to make six white pearls follow.
5. In the next row of wires, which - just as before - you push through the pearls that have already been drawn, Now, after two dark brown and two light brown, six dark brown and one pink pearl follow. In the same row you then add two light brown, one dark brown, two light brown and six more dark brown and one pink pearls. To complete this row, attach two more light brown and two more dark brown beads.


6. Don't forget to tighten the wire nicely at the end of each row to ensure that the beads can be easily bent with your fingers later.
7. Now follow seven or eight (depending on how big you want your guinea pig to be) rows in which you can use light brown, dark brown and white pearls in a pattern that is as even as possible line up.

The best comes last

1. The further you get to the back of the guinea pig, the fewer pearls you add. In the fourth from the last row, for example, there may only be about seven to eight pearls, in the third from the last four or five and in the penultimate two to three pearls.
2. Last but not least, there are two individual pink pearls to complete your work of art.


3. You can tell whether you have worked cleanly and "correctly" by the even "cross" at the end of each row.


4. Now work out the subtleties with your fingers: Bend the whole thing so that a "guinea pig-like" shape is created.
5. As a highlight, cut off four pieces of wire about six centimeters long in the last step and stick on - as you wish - light brown, dark brown or white pearls. These "little feet" can then easily be braided onto the wire of the guinea pig's trunk.

You can now pluck your legs into shape just as you like. If you like, you can tilt the "mustache" a little to create more "liveliness". Now more 3D pearl animals can follow. True to the motto: "A guinea pig rarely comes alone", your first work of art will definitely look forward to two or three more 3D pearl animals.