Yesterday I was arranging my sewing utilities, there were many things like lace, beads, decorative stones, mirrors…  which were lying past many months.  All these things are in demand during the festivals esp. during NAVRATRI as girls  wear colorful chaniya choli ( traditional dress worn by females to play garba)  different types of necklace, ear-rings, bangles. Some of my clients bring simple chaniya choli and ask me to embelish it with  these colorful stuff and I really enjoy this activity as it reminds me of my craft sessions of  school days, also I don’t have the limitations of using the beads etc….

After arranging all the utilities I was left with some multi-colored beads, while I was keeping them, in a small box I sensed like ” they smiled at me and were telling me to play with my creativity “…and I thought to use it on my plain  khadi top and brain storming of design started. I opened my drawing book and thought of some geometric designs, flowers, but nothing appeased my eyes  ….something flashed in the naughty mind  😉  I closed the book, kept kurti back in the wardrobe.

I took the needle and threaded it with four strands of normal thread and the P T class started, P T class !!!! ??? How  ??  I’ll tell you. I arranged all the beads in rows and groups of four. I mean each color had 4 – 5 beads. All the beads in attention position and I started arranging them in my thread, what am I going to make ??  It’s an ANKLET yes!! a beaded anklet.

First measure your ankle round and add 2″ – 3″. This will be the length of your 4 strand thread. Thread it in the needle,  make sure your needle point passes easily through the beads.  Don’t forget to make a knot on the end point of thread before passing the beads. Pass all the beads in the thread. After finishing tie knot of both the ends. While wearing it slowly glide it over the ankle as it’s a thread not elastic. See it’s not necessary you follow my design you can make your own colorful designs.
Waiting eagerly to see your creations….