Rosary Making

I started making rosaries at the church a while back

Rope Rosary

 Takes about 15 feet of cording to make one

The Hail Mary's and Our Father's are made with 3 loop barrel knots

The Cross is made with 4 and 8 loop barrel knots

 These are oval beads with 5 feet of white cord

 Supplies

Centerpiece with a six loop barrel knot attached

 Ten Hail Mary beads with another six loop barrel knot 

Six loop barrel knot

  The Our Father bead with the barrel knots on either side

 After I get all 5 decades of Hail Mary bead with 

4 Our Father beads the cord is attached

to the other side of the Centerpiece and the Pendant is started

The Crucifix is attached to the Pendant  

"voila" all done with all the cord ends tucked into the closest bead

I get two of these rosaries done at the meeting, with all the other ladies,

after I collect all the supplies I'll need to make some at home.

Our priest gives the blue rope rosaries away at the men's retreat.

 He needs 150 of them

The bead rosaries are given away at the Rosary before funerals,

RCIA classes, to our sister parish in Uganda, etc.

First Communion teachers buy supplies for their 

second graders to get nice chain rosaries.  Each one takes about 

8 hours to make.  I haven't learned that skill yet.