A family member wanted this purse for her wedding. MJ quickly mastered the technique of bead crochet (which is thread crochet with beads strung on the thread and periodically incorporated into a stitch) with help from "the Beadwrangler".
This purse has 1260 beads (400 of which are in the tassels).
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The pattern is available in Donna Kooler's Encyclopedia of Crochet.