Huey, Dewey and Louie
Materials:
2 ˝ yards ribbon, cord or plastic lacing
1 key ring or lanyard hook
34 white pony beads
31 red pony beads
24 orange pony beads
2 light blue pony beads
Black sharpie marker or craft paint for eyes
Note: Pay close attention to the string
path at
the beak.. Try using the mini (7mm) beads to make the
pattern
smaller. This may go better with the Donald Duck pattern.
Special Instructions:
For Dewey: Use yellow beads in place of the red.
For Louie: Use neon blue beads in place of the
red.
For Beak: Lace and weave the start of
the
beak (the row under the eyes), ending with one strand
coming out
of the third orange bead. Lace on 5 orange beads, then
skip 2
beads and go back through 3 beads and finally back through
the
row which starts the beak and pull tight. These rows
should end
up on top of the first 3 orange beads. Continue with the
pattern
as usual. You can make this pattern without the 3-D beak,
by
omitting the extra 5 orange beads and continue with the
pattern
as usual.
For 3-D Visor: Just pull this row tight
so that
the beads are rounded to resemble a visor.
For Arms: Try giving all the three
characters
different arms. For example, one with both arms straight,
one
with both arms bent, one with one straight and one bent.
To give
the arm the appearance of an elbow, skip going back
through the
second bead on the arm