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Making a Ribbon-Covered Necklace


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January 27, 2015

closeup of woman wearing necklaceA while back, I was leafing through a magazine and fell in love with a beautiful ribbon-covered necklace. But it was $49! I just couldn't spend that much money on a few beads and ribbon. Recently, I realized, "I think I can make that" and I did. It's very inexpensive to make. The beads were $3 and I only used about half. The ribbon was $1 and I also only used half of that. The embroidery thread was only 39 cents. That's about $2 for this totally unique necklace. My daughter took this one, so now I need to make one for myself.

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Total Time: About 1 hour

Yield: 1 necklace

Source: My inspiration was a necklace I saw years ago and the teething necklaces I've seen on pinterest.

Supplies:

  • 1.5" wide ribbon, wider for larger beads
  • 40 unfinished wood beads, 12 mm
  • embroidery thread
  • needle
supplies
 

Steps:

  1. Start by folding your ribbon in half at the end and cut diagonally to the center. It looks fancy this way!
  2. diagonal cut on folded ribbon
     
    showing cut with ribbon open
     
  3. Thread your embroidery thread onto your needle. Knot the end.
  4. Measure 12 inches from the end of the ribbon. This will be your starting point. The extra 12 inches of ribbon will be used to make your bow.
  5. measure 12 inches in from end
     
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  6. Insert your needle in the inside of the ribbon, close to the edge of one side.
  7. insert threaded needle from inside
     
  8. Wrap the thread very tightly around the ribbon, about 4 or 5 times.
  9. making thread wraps
     
  10. Insert your needle from the outside, going inside, as close to the wrapped area as you can.
  11. close to completed bead reinsert needle to inside of ribbon
     
  12. Put your bead on your thread. Push the bead flush with the closed end, get it nice and cozy in there!
  13. add first bead to thread
     
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  14. Put your needle at the same point as the top of your bead. From the inside of the ribbon, push the needle to the outside.
  15. second bead
     
  16. Close the overlapping ribbon over the bead.
  17. close ribbon over bead
     
  18. Wrap the thread around the ribbon, enclosing the bead inside, very tightly. I wrapped each one 4 times.
  19. wrapping closed end of ribbon
     
  20. Continue doing this to make your necklace as long as you would like. If you run out of thread, just tie some more on and wrap the tied part between the beads (to avoid seeing loose thread ends).
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  22. When you have your necklace the length you would like, wrap around the ribbon next to your last bead 4 or 5 times. Go under the wrapped thread with your needle a couple of times. Then knot it, to make sure it doesn't come undone.
  23. continue until desired length reached
     
    tie off thread
     
  24. Cut the ribbon 12 inches from the end of your beads.
  25. Cut your end the "fancy way", like you did in the beginning.
  26. Tie your bow.
  27. tie bow
     
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December 9, 2015

You can make this stunning necklace at home with just a length of ribbon, some large beads, thread and needle. Learn how to make it in this short video.

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