This is the simplest method I have ever come across for making lovely, fragrant beads from rose petals.
Thanks to my friend Joanne who told me her husband makes necklaces like this.
Words are hardly necessary.
Do thank the rosebushes for the harvest.
Squeeze in hand(s)…over and over…..over and over…. rose juice will come out….
This is partway through the process. Eventually it gets so that the petals hold together and you can shape them into beads with a gentle circular motion of one palm over the other. I put them in the sun for a few hours so they could dry a bit before I put the needle with yarn through to make a hole and keep it open during the entire drying time.
These are my very first two rose petal beads – the one on the left being more of a cone.. Presented fondly and with great contentment. I am about to go and make some more…..