These Corona beads have proven to be very addictive and I’ve found many new combinations to try! The best thing about them is that they’re quick to make and use regular beads that most of us beaders already have in our stash. I don’t know about you but, there’s nothing worse than being eager to start a new project from a magazine, book or tutorial only to find that one of the main ingredients is a hard to find bead or a vintage component. Each of these beads needs 20 Czech crystals (or Swarovski bicones or even pearls), a small amount of size 11 and size 8 seed beads and a needle & thread. The Corona Bead tutorial is available in my Etsy shop or if you don’t bead, you can find these ready made necklaces in the same place :)
Antheia
Another project I’ve been working on recently has been this small crocheted blanket which I finally finished a few days ago. It’s one giant granny square and took me less than a month to complete. It’s for my Nan so I chose lovely pastel shades: pinks, lilac, greens, blues, lemons, lilac and white. I was easy going to begin with but it got tricky towards the end as I started to run out of yarn! I’m fairly new to crochet and still learning how much yarn a project takes. As this was a project to use up my leftover yarn I didn’t want to buy more, so I ended up just doing one row for each colour. I’m really pleased with the finished blanket and my Nan loves it :)
Note that this isn’t the project I was working on some time ago. The squares eventually got turned into a poncho for my Mum but it was a bit of a disaster as I joined the squares together on the wrong side. This means that the lovely joining lines are on the inside while the outside shows messy little pips. I’m so embarassed by it that I’ll never show it to anyone! And poor Mum has been ordered to use it to keep her warm around the house but never to wear it beyond the front door!
