I had some fun yesterday! I was meeting friends for dinner to celerate two birthdays. I woke up in the morning wondering what I could knit that they would like….hmmm…I’ve really been having fun knitting with beads lately so I wanted to do something with beads. Not socks because I had to come up with a project I could finish in a day…no wait…I had to be able to finish two in a day. AHAH! They both work at computers, how about coasters for their coffee/tea/soda? That’s it!

Here’s one

and here’s the other

The color of beads wouldn’t have been my first choice for the two friends I had in mind but these were what I had on hand. (Who has time to run to the bead store when there is knitting to be done?) The top one measures 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, the bottom is 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches. The top one seems to be a better size. Putting the beads on the yarn took about 1 1/2 hours for each one and the knit time was only 1 hour each! That’s nothing! Can’t wait to get more beads and make some more….watch out family, I know what I’m knitting for christmas.

They were SUPER FUN to knit. As I was doing it I daydreamed about all the different graphic designs I could knit. I bet I could design colorful patterns that would be hell to knit but really fun to bead!

I have a fun coloring book of optical illusions that I’ve often tried to graph for knitting but because of the angle of the lines, it never transferred to knitting. But NOW, I can do it in beads, maybe. Happy Friday everyone!