I decided to spend this lovely warm afternoon making the next kit from Simply Beads, the Indian Agate Coil. This bracelet is made with memory wire which I have never worked with, and various shapes and sizes of Indian Agate, black stone and freshwater pearls. Indian Agate is also known as fancy jasper and is considered a semi-precious stone. It is an opaque stone that comes in many different colors and patterns and is believed to eliminate worry and depression and promote mental clarity. Black stone is a generic term for semiprecious stones that are dyed and polished and fresh water pearls are, well, fresh water pearls.
I actually liked this kit as is, without any tweaking, and it was pretty straight forward. String the beads on the wire and secure the ends. Of course when I had it finished I decided that is was a little too wide for my wrist and I ended up taking off a coil or two. The memory wire was a little more difficult to make a loop in than the other wire I have been using, but not impossible. I bought a pair of special cutters for the wire which cut it like butter. I tried my regular "hardware store" cutters on the scrap and they did a perfectly good job too.
This project was very easy to do and looks nice with the semi-precious stones. It would be a great project for kids. Give them a coil of wire with one end already secured and an assortment of beads and let the budding fashion designers do their thing.