This is an old 'craft'. I made this years ago with some other submarine wives, a way to pass the time while our husbands were out to sea. I had a friend recently ask if I knew how to make these and so...because of her ~ I blog for all ;-)
You'll need 1 large safety pin and 14 small-medium sized safety pins and several red, blue, black and clear (or white) small beads.
Using the small-medium pins, add beads following the instructions below.
3 red, 4 clear, 3 blue
3 red, 4 clear, 3 blue
3 red, 2 clear, 3 black, 2 blue
3 red, 1 clear, 5 black, 1 blue
3 red, 1 clear, 5 black, 1 blue
1 red, 1 black, 1 red, 5 black, 1 blue **
1 red, 8 black, 1 blue
3 red, 6 black, 1 blue
3 red, 1 clear, 5 black, 1 blue
3 red, 1 clear, 5 black, 1 blue
1 red, 2 clear 3 black, 2 blue
3 red, 3 clear, 1 black, 3 blue
3 red, 2 clear, 3 black, 2 blue
3 red, 4 clear, 3 blue
** each row should have 10 beads, except for 1 - all I can think is that maybe due to size of the beads a 10th one wouldn't fit. No clue - add an additional black if necessary to fill up space.
When these are done, add them onto the large safety pin. Now there's a little trick to this - you have to loop the beaded pins around the end of the large pin (see picture - as I'm not really sure how to explain it). It may take some trial and error to figure it out.
1 comment:
Shari, those are really neat. I've made the US flag pins, but didn't ever think of adding a sub. I actually have the red, white, & blue seed beads from making those somewhere in my stash. I'll have to get some black ones and make a pin ot two.
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