Sweater Bracelets

Hello all,

My oldest DD wanted to make a bracelet for a sick friend, this is what we did.   I found myself ransacking my sweater stash to pick out colors she liked.  Went looking for beads and found a box of old jewelry to play with.   They chose the beads because they were colorful and some actually glow in the dark. 

After going through 2 bags and a couple of racks we found sweaters to repurpose.  These are stained or felted or torn, but still have a lot of good material in them.   My oldest chose the hot pink, my youngest chose the purple and I liked the beaded cream sweater.  I took another sweater and cut off its sleeve in strips, which I stretched into thin strings.  The girls both designed and created patterns with the beads.  They had to rethink their patterns when they realized they were longer than the bracelet.

For mine I used the strings that were holding on the beads and did a wavy pattern.  Sarah and Hannah needed little holes snipped into theirs for the beads.  We weaved a heavy piece of white string through the holes and strung a bead onto it.

Here's the beginning set of beads and strings.

Here they are all done and pretty.  Not bad for an rainy afternoon.  The smaller ones are going to a neighbor friend to cheer her up after surgery.