I'm a markered woman

Lookit what I learned to make!





Aren't they purdy? I made a handful of them with a pair of pliers from the manly man toolchest, just to see if I enjoyed the process. When it turned out to be fun, I went and got a fancy crimper thing to make the rest. The beads were all repurposed from other stuff I had lying around but never used. Yay for reduce-reuse-recycle!

Now that I've got the hang of it, I'm going to play around with the sizing, make them more uniform, smaller, etc. (These are sitting on a US9 needle and you can see they are of random and mondo-size nature.) Just what I needed, another crafty hobby! ;) This one was borne out of necessity, though. I tend to lose stitch markers at an alarmingly high rate, so these will only last me, oh, about six months or so...