Making a Beaded Clothespin Spring Necklace

Supplies:

• 3 wooden pegs
• 15 large holed beads
• fine cord

 

 

Steps:

1. Remove the springs from the pegs by twisting them.

 
2. Don't throw the wooden parts away, they can be used for other crafts.

 
3. Pull the ends of the springs apart.

 
4. Add five beads to each, or more, or less if your beads are smaller or larger.

 
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5. Thread the springs onto the cord.

 
6. If the cord is long enough you can simply knot it, otherwise, tie a fastener to each end.

 

attosa
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January 25, 20160 found this helpful

Smart upcylcing!

Jean Brown

January 25, 20160 found this helpful

Why are you calling the wooden parts pegs? They are clothes pins used for hanging laundry outside!

likekinds
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February 10, 20161 found this helpful

In the US, a pin is most often thought to be a safety pin, a straight pin or maybe a cylindrical metal pin often used in machinery. Also in the US, pegs are more often thought of as being a heavy, short wooden dowel such as those attached to a hat rack. Pegs can also be made of metal or plastic such as those used to hang objects from a peg board.

In the US, the manufacturers of clothes pins refer to the wooden parts as neither pins nor pegs, but 'clips'. So, at least in the US, the wooden parts are CLIPS.

I live in the US and have heard the term 'clothes pins' all my life. However, I love the older, often more 'colourful' British/English terms and have no trouble with the term 'clothes pegs'.

So, now that we know they are 'clips', we should also know they are equally suitable for hanging clothes indoors as well as out.

Thanks, ShirleyE