"Checkers" Beaded Wrist Warmer
"Checkers" Beaded Wrist Warmer
Supplies (makes 1 pair of wrist warmers):
Yarn: 1 Skein Celestial Merino Solids by Lucy Neatby (100% Premium Merino) 175 yds. (Available at Needlework Unlimited;Koigu KPPPM is good substitute)
Needles: US Size 1 needles
Notions: Approx. 700 size 8 seed beads, "Big Eye" Beading Needle, Darning Needle
Finished Sized:About 6.5" around and 3.5" long.
Prestring about 325 beads on your yarn per wrist warmer.
Wrist warmer is knit in garter stitch, with beads worked on wrong side, and slipping 1st stitch of every row as if to purl.
Cast on 30 stitches. Knit 1 row, slipping first stitch as if to purl.
Next row: Slip 1st stitch as if to purl, work chart. Note**1st stitch (the one that gets slipped as it to purl) is not charted. Push beads up close to the right needle when required by the pattern.
Work chart until work is 6.5" long, about 4.5 pattern repeats.
With another needle, pick up 29 loops from cast on edge. With right sides facing, perform 3 needle bind off. Weave in ends.
