Vanity Need Instructions on How to make a Rosary

[Global2010]

Fellow Catholic Craft inclined freepers.

I am going to be on some vacation time day camping low budget ect.

I am Not crafty and do not have access to streaming video.

I would like to do a craft when on my spell of mini day trip vacations.

I would like to make wrist Rosaries. I found the beads (did not purchase of yet) from an ole retired worldy rock hound vender. (I see barter for price and he has implied so) I really need 4th grade level print out intructions diagram/how to / materials needed.

If you can help or have a favorite link on how to please respond.

I prefer using a string type material to bead with, so need to have knowledge on guage of beads and what type of string ect.

I do not think I have the patience being so uncrafty to work with wire.

Thanks Guys/Gals. Global2010

[Global2010]

I am also happy to have simple intructions on how to make a beadless Rosary.

[Global2010]

Would you please send out a ping to the Catholic lists or refer me to a thread that may alread address my vanity.

Thanks. G-2010

[GonzoII]

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Rosary

[Global2010]

Would you please send out a ping to the Catholic lists or refer me to a thread that may alread address my vanity.

Thanks. G-2010

[Global2010]

You are quick!
Thanks ...

[GonzoII]

If you pinged Salvation I think you’ll get the help you need. I don’t have a large ping list. ;0)

[iowamark]

http://www.rosaryshop.com/

http://www.aquinasandmore.com/index.cfm/title/Rosary-Kits/FuseAction/store.BrowseCategory/Category/1899/

http://www.rosaryparts.com/

[Tax-chick]

I like just stringing beads and tying simple knots between sections.

[Salvation]

Any ideas?

[ex-snook]

I use my fingers.

[al_c]

ping

[Judith Anne]

I do too. My dad used to sing a very old ballad, called “My Mother’s Rosary” and some of the words went like this:

Ten baby fingers, ten baby toes,
she’d count them each and every one
and when her daily work was done
she’d count them by the setting sun,
They were my mother’s rosary...

BRB, I’m going to see if I can find the rest of the lyrics.

[Petronski]

Any ideas?

[Judith Anne]

Can’t find the lyrics, but apparently arrangements are for sale in groups of songs from the early 1900s

[redhead]

Go HERE

[Aliska]

I taught myself how to make the cord ones with the knot tying instructions and little tool that comes with it, made a couple hundred or more and was fussy about getting my knots just so.

Then I made some beautiful ones with fancy beads. I just figured out how to do that myself using special rosary pliers I bought. I probably could have sold some people liked them so well, but I never wanted to do that.

I never learned how to make the kind where you pull wire into a chain, that takes some skill.

The only drawback about all of it are the little pins. One good yank and you'd have to do a repair job. But if the wire were too much heavier, they'd be hard to bend. I've still got a box and drawer full of stuff, could send you at least a tool, the instructions, some beads (several colors) and brown cord (use the green for gardening), don't know if I have any more colors or not maybe black, not sure what all is in there now, to get you started.

Here's where I got started and my supplies:

I found some fancy glass beads and other nice ones at a rock shop here and also on the web. I love what are called czech beads. Also the one place here had the smaller gold roses for the Hail Mary's and the other 3 small ones you need.

I'd have to teach myself all over again so it would be hard to teach someone else. We had a class here, but I already knew how to do it before I went to that, just sat with the ladies, made rosaries and chatted.

[Aliska]

P.S. I never made any wrist ones but several different kinds of chaplets. One of the prettiest ones I ever made was from a picture I saw of a Mexican ladder rosary, they’re strung like a ladder on two small-gauge jewelry chains. I used light blue glass beads and silver chain. That one took a little doing, the little girl liked it so well I was asked to make another one but never got around to it.

[SuziQ]

Those instructions look fine, except that in between each of the beads in the 'groups', I'd tie another knot, so that in each decade, the beads are slightly apart from each other, and the bead in between each decade is set apart, in between two knots, as in the instructions. Makes it easy to say the Rosary, and keep up with where you are, without having to look at the beads.

As for the thickness of the string, you'll need to take some of the beads you're getting to a craft store, or jewelry making store, to just try the different thicknesses of string. If they're coming from a lapidary, and are tumbled stones, the holes might be bigger than they'd be if you were getting smaller beads from a jewelry supply company.

I saw some Rosaries for sale on a website that were 'Birthday' Rosaries. Each was made using beads in the stone color of each birth month, and the first few beads, and the bead in between each decade, were in varied shapes, just to make it more interesting, but were basically the same color. They were lovely!

[Norman Bates]

I know there are rosary kits out there. I’ve made a couple rosaries myself using one but it has been a few years.