This Is Knitting?

I'm getting ready for the next challenge of The Amazing Lace by doing a little extreme knitting warmup. Any idea what they are? Let's see if a little less impressionistic photograph helps:

They're napkin rings for a friend of mine who's getting married this summer. I'm also making a coordinating set of placemats to go with them, so pattern details will be forthcoming once those are finished. But, in case any of you are wondering, like my dad, what those balls are, they're glass beads knitted onto fine gauge wire. How's that for extreme?