Making 1:12 Scale Dolls House Blackberries or Bramble Berries

Gluing Beads on Thread for Dolls House Blackberries

Dip the Thread in the Beads to Create a Blackberry

Lesley Shepherd

• Dip the thread with it’s blob of glue gently into the microbeads. Roll it around a bit to get beads on the end and all sides of the thread up to the depth of your glue blob.
• Remove the thread from the beads and check to see that you have beads on the end and all sides. If you are missing some areas, add a bit more glue with the tip of a pin, and dip again.
• Shape the berry so that it is more or less even and looks proportional to a real berry (has 3-4 layers of beads up each side). Use tweezers or your fingers to squeeze any stray beads into place.
• Cut the thread far enough away from the berry that you can handle it (about ½ inch?) and set the berry aside to dry. Make as many berries as you want, the basket of berries shown had a false layer of beads beneath a top layer of berries.
• When the berries are dry on the thread, cut the thread just at the top of the beads for picked berries or cut the threads to ¼ of an inch in length and glue the threads at the ends (make them different lengths) to form clusters of berries.

• Introduction to Making 1:12 Scale Dolls House Blackberries or Bramble Berries
• Gather the Materials for Making 1:12 Scale Dolls House Blackberries
• Preparing to Glue Beads on Thread for Dolls House BlackBerries
• Gluing Beads on Thread for Dolls House Blackberries
• Finishing a Display of Miniature 1:12 Scale Blackberries