Lavender and Lemon Anklet

If you follow me on pinterest then you can probably guess that my favorite color is purple, and my favorite color combination is purple and yellow. This week's hero is my favorite bead in our shop and it was so exciting to use them in my jewelry creation this week.

I created this really fun dangly anklet on Julie's request. It is so striking and as much fun to wear as it was to make. This is a very simple project that uses just ladder stitch and fringe and works up very quickly. If you do not use seed beads often in your jewelry, the ladder stitch for this anklet is started by stringing 4 size 11/0 purple seed beads onto your thread and passing back through the first two beads in the same direction they were strung.

When pulled tight this will start your ladder with the two 2-bead stacks next to each other.  Continue the ladder by simply picking up 2 beads at a time and passing back through the previous two beads in the ladder. Every third row you can add a leg of fringe.

Here I strung 1-yellow, 9-purple, 1-yellow, 1-purple, the 6mm hero, and 1 purple. Skip the last purple seed bead and thread back up through the fringe leg and the ladder stack above it to attach the fringe and then continue with your ladder for another 3 rows. I shortened every third leg of the fringe a bit by adding 5-purple instead of 9 after the first yellow. You can make the fringe any length you like of course.

Add a spring ring on one end and a lobster clasp on the other by picking up 7-purple and the ring/clasp and passing back through the last ladder stack. Pass back through once or twice to make it secure. You will want to get a lot of wear out of this one!

You can get the materials for this anklet and your other jewelry projects for 20% off in our four day weekend sale using coupon code BEARTHDAY so go get some beads!