Flags (World and U.S. States)
Beadie Critter Patterns

Patterns on this page: 312

Featuring virtually every country in the world, and about half the states.

Click on the link for the country you are interested in. Some will be a normal beadie pattern page, but others will show only a picture, no bead counts.

Special Note: These were made to give only a suggestion of the real flag; naturally, it was too difficult to design the full effect of some of the flags. Each flag pattern is turned on its side, clockwise, as if it were hanging down from the part you would put against the flagpole.

These patterns are best done with mini pony beads (4x7mm) and clear plastic lacing.

If you do them with regular-size pony beads (6x9mm), they will probably need reinforcing to keep their shape. Do this either by running a separate string or cord (whatever you are using as the string), through the middle two or three beads of each row, weaving in the usual manner. See the Gingerbread Man instructions for better directions on how to reinforce.

Ideas for How to Use These Flag Patterns:

• Make these in seed beads as Thinking Day SWAPS (Girl Scouts & Guides). Caution: Not all of these countries are WAGGGS countries.
• Make a necklace with regular pony beads by starting at the bottom of the pattern. When you get to the top, use the extra cord to make a necklace!
• Or you could make a wallhanging by doing these like the patterns in the Sunbeads book by Suzanne McNeill Design Originals. (There is a straw at the top, 1 folded-in-half string is strung through each column of beads, and the loop of the string is hooked over the straw.)
• Make one to go along with a country or state report you're doing for school!

Looking for more Beadie Critter Patterns? Check out these sites:
Lily's icandream.com (click  on "Crafts")