Use beads of your choice to create your own habit rosary.
Habit rosaries work to showcase your religion and commitment to God. Frequently found on nuns or people in the monastery, the habit rosary is a larger version of a traditional rosary. You can create a habit rosary out of the beads of your choice; glass and acrylic beads make popular materials. Learn create your own habit rosary while following traditional rosary-making instructions.
Instructions
1. Insert an eye pin through the hole in one of the beads. Bend the leftover portion of the straight edge of the eye pin in a 90-degree angle with the needle-nose pliers. Rotate your wrist clockwise while pressing the needle-nose pliers down to form a small loop with the remainder of the eye pin. Do not close the loop.
2. Take another bead and thread an eye pin through the hole as in Step 1. Make a loop as in Step 1. Place the loop over the unclosed loop from the first bead. Close the open loop by pressing down on the end of the loop with your pliers. Continue this process until you make a string of 10 beads in this fashion.
3. Make a total of 15 strings of 10 beads apiece by repeating Steps 1 and 2. Each string of 10 beads is referred to as a decade and habit rosaries customarily consist of 15 decades.
4. Place your chain on top of the table. Measure out an equal number of links for 42 separate chain strings. Cut each section with a pair of scissors.
5. Attach a string of chains together with a decade by opening the end loop of the last bead and placing the chain inside the loop. Close the loop as you did previously with the beads. Add one final bead to the end of the chain by opening the loop and closing it over the chain. You should now have a string of 10 beads, a string of chain and a final bead linked together.
6. Continue to add the chain to the end of the decades. Connect the chain that has the decade attached to it to the final bead from the previous decade by placing the chain inside the end of the loop. Continue this pattern until 13 decades are attached together with chain and a solitary bead before the next decade begins. The pattern should consist of the decade, chain link, bead, chain link, decade and so on.
7. Attach the 14th and 15th decades--the decades on the end of the habit rosary--to jump rings. Open the jump ring slightly with your pliers by bending the sides apart. Insert the eye pin loop into the jump ring. Thread the jump ring through one hole in the centerpiece: the part that is in the shape of Jesus or the Virgin Mary. Continue this process with the other end of the rosary, inserting the jump ring into another hole on the centerpiece. Close the jump rings with pliers. Place a final jump ring on the bottom of the centerpiece as before.
8. Add a chain link to the final jump ring by placing the link inside the open end of the jump ring. Close the jump ring. Thread an eye pin through a bead and bend down the end as before. Connect the bead with the chain and close the loop on the bead. Continue this process until you use all of your remaining beads with a chain between each individual bead.
9. Place the final chain on the bottom of the last bead. Open another jump ring and insert at the bottom of the chain link. Place one end of the jump ring through the hole in the crucifix. Adjust the positioning of the crucifix so it is at the bottom of the ring and the beads are at the top.
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