Hot pot! Weave a charming teapot trivet with just a needle and thread

Weave a charming tea pot trivet with just a needle and thread

Take a simple bag of wooden beads and turn them into a Scandi-style trivet. The threading technique is a bit of craft therapy and you can also use it to make smaller coasters for your afternoon tea time.

EASY STEPS TO YOUR BEADED TRIVET

Gather your supplies

• Faux leather

• 20mm wooden beads

You’ll also need

Tape measure; marker; heavy-duty scissors; awl; wool needle; white cotton kitchen twine

Here’s how

STEP 1 Measure, mark and cut faux leather into 10 x 160mm strip. On the back, centre a point 10mm from each short edge. Use an awl to punch through holes.

STEP 2 Thread kitchen twine onto wool needle and feed on 1 bead. Loop twine back around to secure it and then add a second bead.

STEP 3 Fold leather strip in half and feed needle and twine through holes so the 2 beads are on 1 side; they will be the first 2 beads on row 1 of the trivet.

STEP 4 Continue feeding another 64 wooden beads onto twine.

STEP 5 Arrange beads loosely in rows, then cut off twine with at least 200mm excess – this gives you room if shape gets too tight as you start connecting rows.

STEP 6 Arrange rows in final shape. The first row with leather handle has 11 beads and subsequent rows decrease by 1 bead.

STEP 7 To begin joining rows, thread needle with twine then, pulling thread taut as you go, work clockwise across rows 1 and 2 as follows: secure twine, threading it right to left through bead

1 of row 1 twice, then pass thread left to right through bead 1 of row 2. Pass thread right to left through bead 2 of row 1, then pass thread left to right through bead 2 of row 2. Continue joining the 2 rows in this way until you’ve done final bead of row 1. Pass thread left to right through last bead of row 2.

STEP 8 Weaving in and out of beads, but this time in an anticlockwise direction, join row 3 to row 2. Continue joining rows until the end, alternately working thread clockwise and anticlockwise.

STEP 9 Loop twine through last bead twice. Tie off all loose ends. Thread loose ends through several beads and trim excess twine.

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