Two houses ago I was experimenting with leather and made this on a whim. It's a huge statement piece that I don't wear very often, but when I do it's always fun.
Color-Blocked Driftwood Hanger • Color Blocked Bangle • Antler Shed Coat Rack • Wrapped Antler Mobile • Wrapped Letters
Get started on the tutorial after the jump.
DIY Color-Blocked Bib Necklace
SUPPLIES:
- hammer
- x-acto
- hole punch
- 20 inches leather cording (or a chain and jump rings)
- embroidery floss
- scissors
- pattern
- glue
- tape
- leather or felt
Tape your pattern piece to the leather and punch out the holes and cut out where on the necklace you want the color-blocking to occur. I didn't want to wrap the entire thing, so I didn't slit the entire thing. I just picked random spots.
Cut the pattern piece out of leather with sharp scissors
Gather your thread and start wrapping. Since I used one of the smaller pattern pieces, I ended up needing a sewing needle for this part. It makes the wrapping go a lot faster. Leave a bit of a tail and start wrapping. I alternated between wrapping one side and wrapping both. When wrapping both top and bottom pieces, I wrap in a figure 8 pattern. It stays a lot better.
Tack down ends with glue. You can do this either at the end or as you wrap the leather. I chose to do this at the end, just so I didn't have glue all over the place.
Turn your piece over and make sure that no loose ends come out the back side.
Cut about 20 inches of leather cording, tie a knot on one end and thread through the first hole. Thread the cording back through the other hole from the back side.
tie a knot and trim the ends short. Put a dab of super glue in the middle of each knot for some added strength.
The download (below) has large medium and small templates. Pictured above is an XL (template not provided) and the medium.
Use chain and jump rings for a more polished look. Enjoy! Click the button below to download the patterns.
