Finger Crochet Bracelet

I know that I briefly mentioned the project that we did for Parshat Chayei Sara. As a tie in to the two bracelets that Rivka/Rebecca received from Eliezer we decided to do two types of bracelets, I chose one and my daughter chose the other. We did not decide to do a nose ring (my daughter was not into that although she did take the opportunity to ask someone with a nose ring whether it had hurt when she had it pierced.)

The first bracelet was a throwback to my youth- finger crochet with beaded crochet thrown in. Basically I told my daughter to choose 5 buttons (I think she found every little picture button I had) and a yarn color she’d like. While she threaded the beads onto the yarn, I crocheted a loop onto the end of the yarn to make a “button hole.”

Then I explained about weaving and wove the yarn over-under-over-under her fingers to form two rows of loops. She then got to pull the bottom loop over each top loop. Once I showed her a few times she was able to do it herself and was able to do the weaving with a few reminders of how to do it. Every once in a while we pulled one of the beads through. Since she was actually sick, she was a bit too tired to concentrate on doing the whole bracelet herself, so I helped her for part of the weaving. When we felt it was big enough we finished it off.