Christmas Brick Stitch Patterns

Description

Our Christmas Brick Stitch patterns have 20 designs to help you make your own Christmas charms and pendants.

The pattern is a great introduction to brick stitch, covering how to start as well as increase and decrease. It’s suitable for beginners and more experienced beaders. The project pages start with small simple designs and then build to more complex pieces. If you’re a more experienced beader, there’s always the option to jump ahead, straight into the project patterns.

Steph had an incredibly hard time trying to narrow down the designs, the short list was probably as long again. However we settled on 20 with some additional variations of a few designs. Including more than you see in the image above. We have Robins, a present, mini Baubles and two sizes of Christmas pudding (there’s always a greedy person at the dinner table). There’s also a candle, festive chocolate, sweets, a Christmas tree and a Bah Humbug tag. As well as all the designs you can see made up in the photos.

The designs are perfect for jewellery making, with ideas for earrings and pendants. They’re also ideal for creating stitch markers, keyrings and decorations. Which means there are plenty of options to make yourself something fun for the festive season as well as ticking some handmade gifts off the Christmas list.

Our Christmas Brick Stitch Patterns are available as a single emailed PDF with all 20 designs included. Available as an instant PDF download via an email link. There is also the option for us to print out and post the pattern to you.

Materials Required

Size 11 Miyuki Delica beads have been used to create these designs; The examples in the images have used a combination of our Traditional, Classic and Contemporary Christmas mixes. As well as Golden Brown mix, DB201 (Pearl White), DB605 (Silver Lined Emerald) & DB602 (Silver Lined Red).

We’ve used Size 13 transparent seed beads (for making hanging loops)
Size 10 & 13 beading needles, S-Lon Fire beading thread (or your preferred thread).
You will find small sharp scissors useful too.
A selection of findings or chain to convert your charms into jewellery or decorations.

This design is also available as a kit with instructions, beads, findings, needle, thread and a bead mat included.

We have a video tutorial showing you how to start brick stitch which you will find helpful if you’re new to beading.