Beads Trivet

It started with this DIY idea by the German magazine BYM:
http://www.bym.de/leben/wohnen/selber-machen-filz.html?spezial=/leben/wohnen/selbermacher.html


 

But I didn't have the time and the different wool for this project.

Then I came across this picture in Emmas Designblog: http://emmas.blogg.se/

And look what result I came up with.

Before:

After:

I got the necklace from H&M and transformed it into a beads trivet. I like the light colour better than this dark one. It's so Scandinavian style. But the dark one fits better into our home and besides H&M only had this one...