There were quite a number of folks on my gift list this year, and with them being all over the place, I needed something small I could easily mail or pack to take home with me over the holidays. I settled on wine charms, because they fit all the requirements and offered the challenge of being something I hadn't attempted so far.I picked up a package of Lion Brand Yarn Bonbons in Beach, a string of Bead Landing Bits and Baubles large hole glass beads, and a package of hoop earrings about 2 inches in diameter.
To get started, I roughly followed the pattern I found here, but once I had the foundation chain on the hoop, I branched away. I used two colors for each of mine, doing the foundation chain and another row in one and then the last row in the contrasting color. I didn't add beads to all of them, as I didn't have enough, but I sc'd through the beads on the last row on the ones I did add them to.
It was pretty easy once I got the hang of it, though being able to move the hook/yarn through the opening of the hoop was pretty essential to prevent yarn twisting. I tied groupings of 4-5 together with festive ribbon and sent them off. For the ones I gave at home, I tied them into the ribbons of other presents or just hung them from the tree.
