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Large and small leaves, both worked the same instructions for large leaf in [].

1. Using 26g green wire fill at least a meter/yard with green size 11 seed beads.

 

 

 

Knot end. Large leaf will be in parenthesis [ ]. Push 14cms [20cms] 5½’’[8”] of beads up to knot end. Leave another 14cm [14], 5½”[8”] of bare wire and make a loop as you did for the petals.

 

2. Drop down 18 [24] beads down from the knot wire until they rest at the twist of the loop end. Push enough bead up from the spool end to wrap theses beads. This time wrap at an angle when you wrap the knot end wire so that it forms a point and at 90˚ angle at the bottom of the leaf to keep this part rounded.

                                                                                                                                                        

 

                                                             3. Push 3 [3] beads down from knot end and with spool end wrap at an angle around the top of these beads. Take spool filled wire down to the base and wrap. Repeat 1 [3] more times. Finish off wrapping spool wire around twisted loop wire and cut about 2½cms. 1’’ from this point.

 

  

 

                                                                                                                                                                                         

4. To finish off bring knot end wire down and take the wire under the twisted wire and wrap this firmly around twisted base wire. Cut this and the loop as you did for the petals.

 

 

 

 

5. Back stitch large petal with 28g green wire

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                                                              6 . Make 2 small leaves and 1 large.