Attempting to bead-knit a full size purse, in order to learn the bead knitting technique and manage the manipulation of thread, beads, and small knitting needles may end a promising new beading technique much too soon. These wonderful little bead knitting projects projects can help ease the learning curve and give you a finished piece quickly, hastening the reward for learning a new beading method.
A Great First Bead Knitting Project
I love the idea of bead knitting but have always been hampered by the sheer size of bead knitted bags, not to mention all the bead stringing and using those tiny needles! You just know it's going to take forever, if you ever get all those beads strung properly onto the knitting thread!These adorable bead knitting kits from Purse Paradise are designed in a size perfect for a brooch or earrings. Making a miniature bead knitted bag as a first bead knitting project will eliminate the overwhelming feeling attached to a larger project, and will instill the confidence in your skills so that you can attempt a full size bag next. Not only that, but they are absolutely adorable to wear or to use as doll accessories or in miniature settings.
Each kit comes with all the beads, thread, findings and hardware you'll need to complete the project, plus the patterns for not one, but for THREE separate designs! You will need size 4/0, also called size 0000 knitting needles; if you don't own a pair, you may purchase them separately on the site.
Although the hardware used is not a hinged purse frame in miniature, and therefore not functional as a purse, the purses are genuine purses; bead knitted on both sides and sewn together, just as a normal-size bead knitted purse would be.
Priced at just $13.00 for the earring kits, and $14.50 for the brooch kits, each kit includes enough thread and beads for at least 4-5 pair of earrings or single brooches. An excellent kit and a perfect way to get a head start learning to knit with beads.
