Beaded Rounded Heart Pattern

Welcome to the 3-D beaded rounded heart pattern instructions! If you have any difficulty following this tutorial, please post a comment at the bottom of the page on which you are stuck, and I'll do my best to help!

Step 1

Step 1 : As promised, in this step, we are crossing the small white bead labelled with a green dot, that we just added in the previous step. So we are now finished our second circle of 4 small white seed beads. Next we are moving on to the third one and then the fourth one and then we are done the heart!! So the next beads we will be stringing through are labelled with blue X's.

Step 2

Step 2 : So, take the end of the fishing line depicted by a black arrow and string it through the two small white beads labelled with blue X's. Then, to the same end of the fishing line, add 1 new small white seed bead, labelled with a purple dot. You could have also added this new bead to the other end of the fishing line, since you will be crossing it in the next step anyways. You can see that we now have all 4 beads ready to form this circle of small white seed beads.

Step 3

Step 3 : So now cross the last new bead that was added to the pattern! That is, cross the small white seed bead labelled with a purple dot. We are almost done the beaded heart pattern now! And you can see that we already have four beads at our disposal for forming the final circle of 4 small white seed beads. All we have to do is string through them and we don't have to add any new beads to the pattern!

Step 4

Step 4 : So in this step, we won't be adding any new beads. Just take one end of the fishing line (doesn't matter which, but I used the red arrow to show it in the picture) and string it through the 4 beads that make up the last circle of 4 beads on the top of the heart. That is, in order, the small white seed beads labelled with a purple dot, two pink dots, and a yellow dot, then back again through the one labelled with a purple dot, so that you end up back where you started (ie, a loop!), except that the four beads are now attached to each other to form a circle! That's it! The heart is done! Now all we have to do is add the very bottom bead of the heart, which will sit under it to make the bottom of the heart more pointy.

Step 5

Step 5 : Phew!! 18 pages of tutorial later and we are finally done the beading part of the heart!!!!! Now we must finish it off. If you notice, right now our heart's apex (the pointy bottom part) is not that pointy. So we must rectify that. Right now, your two ends of fishing line should be situated at the top of the model (where we left off). So, as shown in the picture, take one end of fishing line and string it right through the interior of the heart until it comes out of the very bottom of the heart (right in the middle of the circle of 4 small white seed beads that make up the apex). Then repeat with the other end of fishing line, so that both ends of the fishing line are now coming out of the apex of the beaded heart.