Photo Instructions on How to Make a Starfish Brooch within 3 Steps

Summary: This brooch tutorial is special for beginners of jewelry DIY; it is simple to understand and quick to do. The hot pink starfish brooch will be a stunning piece in your jewelry box.

This brooch tutorial is inspired by a photo of a handmade braided handbag. In that photo, an adorable starfish takes up a large part of body of the handmade bag. I really love that pink starfish, so I knockoff it and make it a brooch. Here I would tell you my way about how to make this lovely starfish brooch.

Photo Instructions on How to Make a Starfish Brooch within 3 Steps

Supplies for making a starfish brooch:

Pink felt sheet

Pink sewing thread

3mm glass seed beads mix colors

4mm orange glass bicone beads

Brooch cabochon setting

Glue gun

Scissors

Supplies for making a starfish brooch:

Starfish brooch tutorial starts now:

Step 1: Make starfish pattern

1st, draw a starfish pattern on the pink felt sheet;

2nd, fold the felt in half and cut out double starfish.

Step 1: Make starfish pattern

Step 2: Embellish starfish with beads

1st, glue seed beads, pearl sequins and bicone beads onto one starfish;

2nd, glue them one by one carefully, and make sure that they won’t falling off;

3rd, attach the other starfish to this one by sewing all the way along the edges; if available, fill some quilting in the starfishes;

4th, cut off excess sewing thread.

Step 2: Embellish starfish with beads

Step 3: Finish the starfish brooch

Glue the brooch back to starfish.

Step 3: Finish the starfish brooch

The final look of this starfish brooch is like this:

finished starfish brooch

Tada! I have finished this pretty pink starfish brooch. Now you can try this time and do more versions, like blue one and golden one. Additionally, the starfish is also able to be used as hair accessory, handbag ornament and home décor.

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Comments (1)

Nov 30, 2013 at 08:58 AM Judy Bass

Could you draw the outline...use needle/thread to sew the beads in place before you cut it out? That way you would have the piece of felt to hold and the beads would be in place before you cut.. I would do as much "before" cutting.