Village Cryptid: Charms and Wristers

I bought a bag charm online, a really sparkly bag charm. It was so sparkly it didn’t even need to be in the light to shine. I couldn’t stop looking at it.

This is it in a dark corner, see how she sparkles! Yes, those other things are also hanging on my bag.

Because I am a making sort of a person, I thought that I could make that style of bag charm. As far as I’m concerned you absolutely cannot have too many dangly, sparkly thingies attached to your belongings. Looking at the one I bought I thought that beaded wire crochet was the way to go. However, for the first one I wanted to use an altered washer that I had made years ago (during a washer mania) and had recently got back when I broke down tons of previously made and unsold jewellery.

This isn't even the half of it, there was a crate full.

I couldn’t think of a way to crochet the washer in so added an extra bail to it and used beading wire; this meant I got to try out my new crimping pliers. I picked beads which looked, to me, like boiled sweets to fit in with the washer.

Forbidden snacks.

During my dismantling of the old jewellery I came upon a keyring which I’d made from a crocheted chain of paper beads which was twisted back on itself and it felt really nice in the hand so that was where I was starting from. I crocheted a longish chain of just paper beads but it wouldn’t be long enough on its own so I made another chain, instead of just paper beads though I went off piste and started adding in beads from a kit that I’d bought last year. I twisted them together, crocheted on a phone charm hanger and that was it. The start of another mania.

The first wrister.

This one is so sparkly.


This is for a bag charm but I think it needs another strand twisting in	.

Wrister in the same lime greens.

I made a bunch of wristers (as I call them now) and a couple of bag charms. To try and recreate the sparklyness of the OG charm I dug out some buttons that I must have had for over a decade, they have a rainbow effect when you turn them in the light.

Rainbow buttons!

This one was made as a birthday gift.

Bag charm as part of the same gift, I've used another altered washer. The photo was taken before the fancy shaped carabiner that I ordered had arrived.

After making a bunch I decided I wanted a wrister to match my favourite phone case based on Pamela Colman-Smith’s illustration for the 9 of Pentacles. This one seems to be in my favoured colour scheme for the year, I’ve made loads of things in the same golden/amber shades.

I'm hoping that this brings in abundance.

Since being matchy-matchy is kind of a thing with me when I ordered a bunch of new phone cases for an, as yet, not received new phone I made wristers to match. I had to go off the online pictures though which can be a bit hit or miss but these came out really well.