DIY - handicraft

Happy New Year, everyone!

This year for Christmas I gave a self made gift to some of my family and they were all very astonished and happy about that. In this post I am going to tell you, how you can make such a gift by yourself.

Key fob

You need:

• 12 pearls of the same kind and colour with the diameter of about 7-8 mm
• 24 pearls of the same kind and colour with the diameter of about 3-4 mm
• a little box of “Rocailles” pearls of the same colour
• a nylon thread or a “Perlon” thread with the diameter of about 0,25-0,35 mm and the length of about 1 m
• key ring

1. At first you put three big pearls on your thread so that they are on the middle of it. Then you cross the two ends of your thread in a fourth pearl, so that you have a circle of four big pearls.

2. Then you add one pearl to each of the two ends of the thread. After that you cross them again in one more pearl. Altogether you have 7 pearls on the string now.

3. Afterwards, you repeat this act once more, so that you have 10 pearls on the thread up to now. Add one more pearl on each end of the string. Then you cross the thread in the very first pearl which is already on the thread. Now pull on the ends of the string to get a ball.

4. Finally the small pearls are going to be used now. On every end of the string you are adding two “Rocailles” pearls (the really small ones). Then you add one of the medium pearls on each end of the thread. After that you cross the string in another of the smallest pearls. Now add one medium pearl and two of the smallest pearls to the string again. As a result you have sort of a flower now. If you want you can use a “Rocailles” pearl of a different colour for the middle of the flower to make your key chain a little bit more colourful. To make the construct stable, cross the thread in the next big pearl.

5. Do it again and again until you have finished one circle around the ball and then change your direction to the big pearls which have no decoration yet. When you are finished make a tight knot and fasten your key ring. I am sure that you know somebody who would be very happy about that gift.

In the end I have to mention that this "Do it yourself" handicraft is not my own idea. I found it on this webpage: http://www.mittags-pause.de/schluesselanhaenger-selber-machen/