DIY Fashion Tutorial: Necklace

Packing, sewing, teaching, packing sewing teaching, packingsewingteaching, it all begins to run together. Needing a distraction, I played around with another Anthropologie inspired necklace.

Here's what I came up with.

And here is how to create your own.

Pull out some silk flowers, vintage buttons and dupioni silk.

I covered the flowers with two coats of Liquitex Matte Medium.

This stiffened them up nicely.

After the flowers dried, I removed the plastic centers and pushed through vintage shank buttons.

The remaining flowers I covered with 3 D Crystal Lacquer.

This gave them the high gloss enamel effect I was looking for.

The base for the necklace is a tube of 1" cotton welting, covered in dupioni silk.

It is sheered onto the welt cording.

Hand stitch on two long ties, pleating in the middle on both sides.

Place your flowers onto the welting.

For some reason I hand stitch whenever I can.

I only resort to the glue gun for the flowers that could not be stitched down.

(A normal person might glue all the flowers down.)

In my world, "more is always better" ,

so another texture was introduced with the feathers.

The finished necklace can be tied off to the side, so the bow is in front or worn with the tie in the back.

Funs over.

Now back to packing, sewing, teaching.