Crafted By Colette

I may have gotten a little bit behind, forgive me.  Lots of fun crafts coming up though.

For Day 17 I used mini Hama beads.  These are, as it sounds like, mini versions of Hama beads.  Here’s the size difference.

And for reference, on the right is one board for the regular Hama and on the left is TWO boards for the mini Hama.

The beads are so small it’s impossible – for me and my fat fingers at least – to place them without using tweezers.  But there are benefits to using the mini version – you can get more detailed pieces without going really big, for example.  And it’s easier to make pieces for pendants and earrings without going to ridiculous sizes.

Here they are, pre-ironing, with a tealight candle for scale.

And here they are post-ironing.

After that it was a case of connecting to ear wires using jump rings.  Unfortunately, they’re very thin and I’m still getting the hang of handling them.  As you can see, there was a minor casualty.

But I’ve worn the completed pair for a couple of days, and there’s been no more breakages.

More practice with Mini Hama is definitely needed.