Hama Beads Butterfly

It is more than 10 years ago that I made my first butterfly from Hama beads and I have always gotten positive feedback when wearing them. They go well with normal street cloth, but I have also worn them for more formal events and given them as gifts.

Butterfly:

Hama mini-Beads

Square plate for Hama beads

Fishing line

Baking paper

One half of a snap button

Choker:

Other half of the snap button

1 cm Ribbon

Sewing thread

A set of butterfly hooks

Tools:

Needle

Scissor

Iron

First you take your Hama mini-beads and plate and build the butterfly. I prefer building the outline first and then fill in a pattern. I often play around with the patern and colours until I get it just right.

Heat up your iron and put a piece of baking paper on top of your butterfly. Then carefully heat it up. Don't use to much heat and no steam iron!

When all the beads have melted together you can take the beads of the plate and turn them around. Put baking paper on the new side and also heat that one up.

While the second side is cooling you can bend it a bit, so the butterfly does not look flat. You can reapply heat as needed until you get the perfect bends on your butterfly.

Now use your needle and fishing line to sew the male half of the snap button on to the butterfly. It is pretty easy. Just use the holes in the Hama mini-beads.

Now take the ribbon and the two parts of the butterfly hook. You need enough ribbon for the choker to get around your throat and then around 5 - 7 cm more. It is better to take a bit to much than a bit to little.

Sew one end of the ribbon so you get a small loop that you can hook the butterfly hook into.

Then put the regulator buckle on to the ribbon and afterwards the hook. Sew the other end of the ribbon on to the middle leg of the regulator buckle.

When that is done. Use the regulator buckle to make sure it fits and then sew the female half of the snap button on to the choker. Halfway betwen both ends.

That is it. Your butterfly is finished. From now on you don't need to make anymore chokers, but can just make extra butterflies and change them out by using the snap button.