I also had some silk fabric in dark contrast floral pattern left from another project and since the first pink necklace was so easy to do, I decided to make another necklace but much longer in length for different look. This one is about 36" long. For this longer necklace I used large and some smaller beads for uneven look.
This long necklace I like to wear with simple tanks or t-shirt in dark charcoal color. The inspiration for the color combination of bright floral and dark charcoal color came from Roberto Cavalli ad campaign
Here is how I made my necklaces. I bought large wooden beads, mine were about 1". Then I cut a strip of fabric 5.5" wide and sew it in length to get a tube, but kept it open on both ends and turned sewn strip to the right side. After the tube was ready, I took one large bead, dropped it inside the tube, positioned the bead in the middle in length and tied a knot on each side of the bead. All I had to do after that is keep going adding more beads and separate each of them by the knot until I got the length of the necklace I needed. For the ends and a closure I used the same attachments as I used in my Silk Braided Rope Bracelet Let me know if you had a chance to make the same necklace!
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I couldn't find any nice wooden beads in this neck of the woods, so I made really densely packed (squeezed) "beads" (balls) out of aluminum foil and used those (even more DIYish!).
ReplyDeleteAu, you are really creative! I liked that you did not give up.
ReplyDeleteAnother option is...
ReplyDeleteUse tiny gold or silver beads in between each big bead.
So big bead through tube and silk through tiny bead.