Knitted Beaded Bracelets

This just shows how slow I am about starting projects. The pattern was a project from the beginning of the year for The Knitting Guild of Denver. The pattern doesn't specify the beads and suggests crochet cotton.

I already had a skein/tube of Lion's Brand Lame' (75 yards) and thought it would work for the pattern. I picked up six tubes of beads at Joanne's. All the beads are size 2/0. The width of the beads isn't consistent but that adds to the interest. Each bracelet used one tube of the main color and approximately 40% of a tube for hi-light beads for approximately 180 beads. The colors are red, teal, aqua, and blue. The hi-light beads are topaz and topaz luster.

I used a big eye wire needle to string the beads. The yarn was threaded by folding it in half and pushing it through the eye. To reopen the eye for the next bracelet, I pushed the tip a metal size one needle through the eye. That opened it back up.

The clasp is a toggle which is easy to work compared to a lobster clasp. The ends were woven in and threaded up the back a ways. Tried gluing them, but I may have to clip the glue end off because it doesn't seem to be staying stuck down.

I showed two of them at the knitting guild meeting and have four 'credits' towards the membership drawing. Guild projects get two credits and non-guild projects get one.