I forget how I came upon Denise Sutherland's Free Row Counter Bracelet Instructions. It may have been via the Craft Magazine blog, or rather their Twitter, since that is how I read that blog. In any case, I found the pattern and decided it would be a fun thing to make. Have I done any beading before? Not unless you could the seed beads I used to put on safety pins and then attach to my shoe laces in 4th grade. Yeah, I didn't think you'd count that.
I headed over to Beadissimo in The Mission (which I just learned closed) and picked up some beads from a big trunk of beads they have. For something like this, why spend a lot of cash, right?
I got out a towel to put the beads on while I was working on them, found some needle-nose pliers in the tool chest, and went to work.
The jump rings and clasp took a bit to get used to. I wore my cross-stitching magnifying glasses to see things a bit better. Those rings were tiny!
I was surprised at how quick it was to put together. It was great fun heating up the pliers on the stove to melt the stretchy line for the seed beads.
Unfortunately, I made the bracelet a bit too long. The beads are heavy and they really hang from my wrist. I find that rather than wearing it, I line it up on the table in front of me when I'm knitting and use it that way. Though, honestly, I picked up a little kacha-kacha counter that I use more often. The bracelet is still neat though.
