This was inspired by some crochet rosaries, there are a few patterns floating around the web, I modified one to make prayer beads for myself (I only have 33 “Beads” on the main circle) Seems to be a good number for many paths. I love the idea of Mala’s however so I set out to make one!

Traditional Mala’s have 108 beads, once I started though I realized that it would be longer than I wanted so I went with a half Mala of 54 beads, but if you really wanted 108 keep going and you could loop it or carry it in a Mala bag.

Uses a pretty small amount of yarn.