Get knotted... a different class of row counter.

Row-counter bracelets - great for keeping track of your knitting or crochet - hand-knotted with cotton pearle embroidery thread, featuring 8mm Czech glass or semi-precious beads with a button closure and seed bead counting loops. Standard length is 20cm but can be custom ordered for an alternative fit.

This works in a similar way to the simple row-counter bracelets. You still have a cord featuring nine 'unit' beads and another with ten 'ten' beads, but with this bracelet there is a counting loop for each cord that you slide down as you go.

Blue & white Czech glass bead mix, cream knotting with a metal button.

Mother of pearl button with oatmeal knotting and a soft purple & white Czech glass bead mix.

Purple & red bead mix with black cotton knotting.

Green & purple Dragon Vein Agate beads, black knotting with a vintage plastic 'English Make' button.

Blue & green Czech glass bead mix, sage knotting with a sage green plastic button.

Black knotting, red, white & black Czech glass bead mix.

'English Make' vintage plastic button, unearthed in my local sewing shop.

There's currently a selection of the bracelets on offer at The Knit Studio in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

Easy peasey lemon squeezy...

Simple bead row-counter bracelet - a small abacus for the wrist.

This version has two cords with beads separated by a small rubber ring that easily allows one bead at at time to pass through.

One cord has nine beads as 'units', the other cord has ten beads as 'tens'. At the beginning of your count the ring should be slid to one end.

As you count 1-9, the unit beads should be slid through the ring...

until you reach 10 when you slide your first ten bead through the ring.

Now slide your unit beads back through the ring and start again.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy...

Every time you go past your ninth row, just slide another ten bead down and start again.

Simple yet effective

Sometimes it's the simplest pieces that are the ones that pop out at you. I generally create pieces that I would wear myself and my preferences are geared towards natural stones and fibres, though I do love the jewel colours of glass beads too.

This was one of the first pieces I ever designed - labradorite with deep brown and blue beads and silver accents. There's a necklace that matches it, and enough materials left to make earrings.

Cord necklace with a large hand-felted purple bead & black thread accent, and smaller purple and black glass beads.

 100% Merino wool crocheted chain with purple and black glass seed beads. Designed to be wrapped round the neck and tied in a bow, leaving the ends to dangle.

Carnelian and labradorite bracelet with natural seed bead loops, knotted cotton thread to hold it together with a ceramic bead to fasten - one of the original test pieces for the row-counter bracelets.

Chunky glass and lustre bead bracelet with glass seed bead loops - a silk and wool fibre yarn was used as a threading material and closes with a shell button. I love the juicy colours of the green beads against the more subtle lustre beads.