Variations

 

I started by crocheting a sample, following a pattern. I wasn't really sure about it, so I canvassed opinion. I got thumbs down, but my daughter said she liked the combination of colours. So I used the same colours in simple bias stripes to make a necklace:

It's long enough to go over my head, so I did an invisible join instead of using a press stud. It has a circumference of 7 beads. While I was working on it, I thought I could add another white bead between turquoise and gold to make it a circumference of 8.

It looks fine, so I made a bracelet :