Wire and bead purse pattern

Here is how to work with wire and beads. Roxan

Ah, my favorite, wire crochet. I don't agree with a lot of her information, but ....

If you don't want to/can't crochet a purse, and wire is nothing to try to learn to crochet with, could you use something like screening? A long rectangle, folded envelope style, and then embellished with beads?

Or, if you want it "gusseted", figure out how wide you want the bag to be, and cut rectangles out of the wire, and whipstitch them in place with more wire. Fold over the flap, use a snap or magnet with a bead on it as a closure, then sew beads on the mesh itself?

I have no idea what your friend's purse looks like, so I am just picturing in my mind, how I would make a wire and bead ppurse.

You can use just about any string crochet pattern. Use small guage wire-- like 28g sterling or fine silver, or tarnish-proofed craft wire.

Use a steel hook (NOT plastic or aluminum!!). Hold it like a baby holds a spoon, rather than like a pencil.

String beads before you start, slip a bead down to the hook before you "yarn over", then complete st as usual. Kaytee "Simplexities" on