The Vibrant Chunk: April 2016

Choker Jewellery from scrap leather

Remember in one of my previous post I told you I have lot of scrap leather, time to utilize it again!

Today I’m going to share this statement choker necklace I made with small waste parts of leather which I gifted to my sister.
No I’m kidding, she stole it. It was the first leather jewellery I made and I didn’t want to give it away. Perks of being sisters you see, I can snatch it back whenever I want :P
Okay I won’t bore you much Let’s begin with the tutorial

Supplies:

Leather scrap (off white & black)
Rubber based adhesive/ Fevibond
Wire
Scissors
Black tape
Beads – copper, gold, silver
(you can use anyone color or you can mix all of them like I did in this tutorial)

Procedure:

I’ve made diagrams so that you are clearly able to understand the measurements which part goes where, you can totally skip these steps and make it straight on leather and cut it.

Draw 9cm vertical line (AB), from point A mark 5cm as the center and draw along horizontally. From point A mark 1 cm draw horizontal line. Everything will be pasted below this line because this space will be folded later (This will be done for every base diamond shape).
Join all corners and make the shape shown in the second image (let’s name it diamond).

Draw the one more diamond inside, following the measurement shown above. If you’re good at it and can cut randomly without measuring you may do that as well, but I’m displaying the full measurements I took while making the jewellery.
Cut the leather pieces you’ll have a big black diamond and a small off white diamond, paste it like shown in the image.
Cut another black diamond smaller than previous one and one more in off white which fits inside the black one. (I’ve colored the diagram for easy understanding). You’ll have these three pieces now paste like you did the previous one.
Follow the measurements and draw the shape as shown in image below, Cut the leather pieces and paste like you did in previous step.
Cut two more black diamonds of same size and cut two off white diamonds of smaller size randomly and paste.
After pasting all pieces you should have five parts (one big diamond, two small and two smaller diamonds)
Wrap the wire around your head first then around your neck adjust and bend accordingly.
Now take the big diamond part and apply rubber adhesive on the upper part that we left for folding, wrap it round the wire, paste and let it dry. Do the same with other diamond parts

Fill the side parts with beads and tape the endings.

And that’s it your choker is ready!
I actually wore this many times before my sister took it and she still has it in good condition so this is definitely durable too.

If you wish to make these earrings too, you can refer to my previous post Leather earrings tutorial and make paired jewellery.

Let me know if you have any queries or suggestions. If you like this tutorial share it with your friends on social media. You can change the color and design according to your desire.

Your feedback will make me better. I would love to read your thoughts about this tutorial, do comment below.

Don't forget to catch up next Sunday!
Hope you have a lovely day ❤

2 comments

, by Pooja

chic

Make a gorgeous flower crown just under $2

Flower tiaras are beautiful isn’t it?

I fancy tiaras but somehow I just don’t buy it because I always wanted to make it.

You can buy one but it will cost you more because the material for this flower crown won't cost more than Rs.100($1.5) whereas ready-made tiaras may cost 300-400 per piece and who doesn't like inexpensive things?

You'll need:

Organdy fabric (red & pink)
Scissor
Green thread
Wire
Green tape

Steps :

Wrap the wire around your head where you want your tiara to be, it will bend easily and the base is ready, if you are not able to cover it with one wire connect another and cover the whole band with the green tape as shown in image below.

Cut the organdy fabric into small squares (5cm), according to my band size I used 30 roses and placed it close to each other for which I used 90 squares however if you don’t want to cut so many you can use 20 roses and place it at the distance of 4cm even that will appear to be beautiful.

Now for the roses,
Fold the corners of the square to create the shape shown in image 3, then fold it along the center line like the 4^th image.

Curve the edges as shown in the 2^nd image, you can use pen refill or toothpick or you can do it easily with your fingers.

Roll the first petal around the wire tie it with the green thread and roll 3 times now place the second petal around it, knot and roll I used three petals for one rose. You may you more petals if you want bigger roses.
Now remove the wire by sliding it downwards.

Next step is to attach the roses to the band, place the rose on the band and start rolling the green thread attaching backside of the rose to the band as shown in the image below. Stop when it is tight enough and do that again for rest of the roses.