| Materials Required: | Half a bunch of olive green opaque beads, No. 3-0, |
| Half a bunch of milk white beads, No. 0, | |
| 1 skein yellow crystal E beads, | |
| A spool of No. 60 white linen thread, | |
| A No. 5 needle. |
Fig. 41
Next best to making a daisy chain out-of-doors is to string one of beads. And this rainy-day chain will last as many months as the real chain would hours. First string sixteen green beads, then eight white ones. Run the needle down through the first white bead and string a yellow one. Next pass the needle through the fifth white bead (see Fig. 41) and draw the thread up tightly. This makes a daisy. String another stem of sixteen green beads and make a daisy as you did the first one. The whole chain is strung in this way.
Chain of Watermelon Seeds Strung With Beads
| Materials Required: | 120 fresh watermelon seeds, |
| A bunch of pink crystal E beads, | |
| A spool of No. 60 white linen thread, | |
| A No. 5 needle. |
Fig. 42
A chain that is very pretty and effective may be made with watermelon seeds and pink crystal E beads, the colour of the inside of a watermelon. The seeds can be pierced quite easily with a No. 5 needle. Take two pieces of white linen thread, well waxed, the length you wish the chain to be, and two needles. Tie an E bead on the end of each piece of thread. Lay them side by side and string four more E beads on the strand at the right. Pass the needle on the left up through the three middle beads of the five on the right strand (see Fig. 42), and string one more E bead. Next thread a seed on each strand and string the E beads in the same way. So it goes on for the whole length of the chain.