Have you been looking for a new and different way of hanging your necklaces?
If so today I have a cool new tool and an interesting and different project and
a great way to use them together to make beautiful necklace cord that's very
unusual. Hi there, Sandy here, welcome to another
jewelry making video at keepsakecrafts.net. So the kind folks at
Thread Nanny sent me this a delightful selection of silk ribbons wondering if i
could use some of them in making jewelry and I told them, "Well, of course,
absolutely!" I've actually done silk ribbon embroidery for years, I have... I
haven't done any for years, but years ago I did a lot of it and I'll have links in
the upper right here to a couple of tutorials that I've done on silk ribbon
embroidery. In fact there's a post at my blog for an entire project that I made
that I won a prize for which is kind of cool, but I polled my patrons about doing
silk ribbon embroidery and got kind of a "meh" response so I'm not sure if I'm
going to do that. You guys let me know in the comments below if you would like to
see how to use these luscious ribbons in making jewelry with simple embroidery
stitches, it's very luxurious and beautiful. But I decided today to do
something entirely different and unexpected with these. I'm going to make
knitted cord using this tool, this is the Wonder Knitter made by Clover. You can
often buy these in the knitting and yarn section in your craft store and it's a
really well-designed tool. I'll have a video this coming Friday showing you a
lot of different ways of using this. If you look online you will find lots of
examples using yarn, honestly, that kind of bored me. You get this little tool and
the cool thing about this is that it spins, and it spins in either direction
so this will work whether you're right or left handed. If you're left-handed
you'll hold this in your right and do the motion this way with your left hand.
So this is the first thing I made with this I ,took some of that silk ribbon and
I made a knitted cord just using a single ribbon. This is okay and
interesting but I wanted to get even more interesting. I pulled together
several ribbons: a seven millimeter ribbon, four millimeter ribbon and I even
threw in some baker's twine to make this and knitted this an,d this is far more
interesting. I'm going to use this as a necklace cord for this faux druzy and
I'll tell you more about this in a few minutes. I wanted to use the silk ribbons
to make a cord but I wanted it to be a bit more textural and interesting. I
actually got this idea because I had a tutorial from a magazine saying to use
sari silk and it sounded wonderful and luxurious... I could not get it to work. I
tried and I tried and it just didn't happen. So I don't know, maybe it's my
silk, but here are some ideas for different things that you can use to get
a really wonderful textural look. How about eyelash yarns? Just these fuzzy
yarns, they're pretty thin but they've got all these great fibers coming off
them, or yarns like this with these little... I don't know what you call that,
these little bits, or ribbons, other kinds of ribbons or yarn with sparkles.
This stuff this is so plushy it feels like that minky fabric, it's just squishy,
this would add a great texture, more sparkle. So lots of different
possibilities, even crochet cotton. I used the baker's twine because I liked the
stripes and the different colors just to add a different layer of texture. You
might go through your odds and ends. I made enough to make a necklace cord with
about 4 and a half yards of yarn, so you could use leftover bits. If you've been
following me for a while you might remember this pendant that I bought at a
bead show last October. So I went through all of my fibers and found several that
I thought would work well together. I'm going to be using this 4 millimeter silk
ribbon and some of this dark moss colored yarn, some of this eyelash yarn,
also a bit of a baker's twine. I think all of those together will get me a really
rich textured necklace cord and we can also add some beads to it. So the way
this works is you need 10 to 11 times the length that you want for your
section of necklace, of course you don't have to have your entire necklace be
made out of this cord. In fact I wouldn't recommend it. What we're going to do is
finish our ends with caps and then just have chain go around the back, so really
maybe 16 inches of your knitted cord will be plenty. Four and 1/2 yards is 162
inches and if you divide that by 10 that's 16, so 4 and 1/2 yards will give
you about 16 inches of finished cord and that's for each of them, so it doesn't
matter if you're using 2 or 3 or 1 fiber in your cord you will need 4 and a half
yards of each, 10 - 11 if you need it to be a certain length. I would cut 11 times
the amount so 5 yards would give you about a little more than 16 inches. Okay
I've got my yarns all measured out. A couple tips for you in doing that: first
of all I would suggest finding a room away from marauding kitty cats. Oh my
goodness, they find the measuring out of many yards of ribbon and yarn quite
fascinating. Take your ribbon ends and just loosely tie an overhand knot on the
end, we're going to undo this but it just helps to hold them all together and then
to keep everything together just get yourself a piece of cardboard that you
can wrap it all around. This will do a couple things, it will keep it in order
and it will also kind of give you an idea of what your finished necklace cord
is going to look like with the combination of yarns that you've chosen.
I did this earlier with this one, I had a pink fiber in here and I did not like it
and so it was good that I did that because I was able to take it out. I
think that's gonna look really good. Another tip is if you're undoing spools
of ribbon or yarn put them in some kind of container and ,
like I just had this on the, this little votive holder on the floor as I was
unspooling it and that way it kept my spool from traveling all over the place.
Also I would suggest that you do what I did the with that orange one, the first
time you make one of these just start with a single fiber so you can get the
hang of it. It's not hard in the least but you'll make it a lot easier on
yourself if you just practice with one. In fact let me show you that right now.
I'm just going to practice with this baker's twine because it turned out I
didn't have enough to do my necklace with that.
Take the end of your cord, whatever you're using or all of them and just
treat them all as one and drop it down through the middle of the tool, out
through this opening and just have a piece that you can kind of hold on to. So
if you're looking at it have one of the pegs at 12 o'clock and wrap the cord
from left to right and then down to the left, turn this so that that peg is now
at 12 o'clock and wrap the cord from left to right and you want a little
tension on it, you don't want it too tight, and then repeat for the other one.
So now you should have your cord wrapped around all three and it should look just
like this. Next have your cord go along the outside of the first peg that you
wrapped around and then through this little holder. This, like I said, is a
really well-designed tool. First of all you'll see there's a groove right here
and that's the perfect spot for popping this little hook, it just fits in there
beautifully, there's also a divot here which makes it so easy to go down
through the groove and scoop up your cord. So you take your little tool, you go
under that cord that is going over to the holder, pop it into that groove,
scoop down and lift that cord up and over. That's one stitch. Then you can take
the hand that's holding the tool and advance it so that that cord is going
over the next peg. So like I said it's very simple small things that make this
tool work really well. Just the shape of it that those pegs, and what I'm doing on
this side is I have this cord that I'm feeding in just going between a couple
of my fingers for tension because you want to hold this snug and I'll show you
what happens if I don't. If I don't hold it when I go to pull this, well it's
working in this case because I only have one, but if you have a bunch of fibers
you want to pull them snug against that peg so that when you pull this one up
they get caught underneath this overhang and they don't go up and over as well.
And this is all you do, you just spin, lift, grab, spin, lift, this one I can tell
is the first one because I can feel that that's loose. So you just give it a tug.
You'll notice on my first one my tension isn't very even it's kind of all over
the place and even on this one it's not as even as I would like. What I found was
that what you want to do is every 2 or 3 stitches just tug. Your cord's going to
feed down through here, so every 2 or 3 stitches give it a tug because
especially when you're using a whole big bundle like this they tend to get
bunched up in here and that is what is going to cause your uneven tension. You
might not have that problem if you were just doing a single yarn. That's all
there is to it, it's that simple. To finish off the cord is very simple,
you need to leave yourself a few inches of ribbon. So if you're using a set
amount just make sure you stop when you have 4 to 6 inches left, if you're
cutting it off a card then the same, you just cut off
maybe a little bit more than I left here. The casting off, so to speak, doesn't use
much but you do need to be able to hold on to it. So you carry on the way you've
been going all along, hooking your tool under the loop and pulling it over the
peg, except now go ahead and grab that loop that's still on the peg and pull it
through all the way, pull those ends through. Go on to the
next stitch, this is why you need just a few inches of ribbon to hold on to it
here. Bring the stitch up and over,
then grab these and pull them through, and last one. This one's kind of a pain
because there isn't much tension on it really to hold on to but you can do it.
There we go, up and over, pull those ends through, there you go,
there is your finished cord. You can see by the time I got to this third cord
that I made and I started tugging on it every few stitches that this one has some
pretty nice even tension and I really love the texture of this with the
eyelash yarn in there. I just think this is so much more interesting. So although
you don't get more length, the more you use it you do end up with a thicker cord
so you'll have to keep that in mind for the pieces you want to do. Here are
the cords I'm going to use for my green pendant and like I said, you start it
the exact same way except that you're using four at once. So you just pop those
all down in there, pull them out and hold on, just get a little tension on those
first few stitches, those are the hardest ones, the first few. Wrap from left
to right and around and around ,spin it so the first one you wrapped on is facing
you. This can be kind of a pain, especially with the eyelash yarn
sometimes they get caught so you may have to fiddle with this a bit, but other
than that, other than having multiple cords it's in the exact same way. The
hook goes up under, slide it into that slot,
and that is how you catch just the cords in the other stitch. Hold this with some
tension on the back side, yeah, this can be the toughest one. I hope that you are
finding this project interesting and inspiring and maybe sparking new ideas.
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more creativity and inspiration. You can learn more details at my Patreon page
which is Patreon.com/sandysewin. I found that a cord for a necklace which
is about 15 to 18 inches long took me, I think it took me 30 minutes total, but I
had a few interruptions and distractions so I'm guessing if you got pretty fast
and smooth at it and you weren't distracted or interrupted you could
probably get one done in 20 minutes. Like I said every few stitches just go ahead
and give it a tug so that you have even tension. Once you have your cord done you
can proceed to embellish it or use it as is for a necklace. So here's this one all
done, I'm going to use this to hang my faux druzy. What's fun about this silk
ribbon is that it kind of is squishy so I could use it with this pretty big cone.
I can even use it with this really big cone although I would need to have a
pendant that worked with it well. you could use it with a smaller cone
that actually works, too. So whatever is proportional to your particular pendant.
Now for bails, this one was made with a polymer clay bail and you can see, this
isn't the one I'm gonna use with this, but you can kind of get an idea, that
fits on there just fine, that would sort of work but I think I like the ones I
picked better. I'm just going to tie these in a couple square knots so one
left over right, right over left just a few times. Once you have those tied
tightly and secured you can trim off your excess. Grab yourself some wire, this
is just 22 gauge you can use 20, about 4 inches of wire and pop it through your
last stitch. Poke through about an inch,
grab it with some pliers and twist it just a few times just so that it's
secure. Trim this. So depending on the bead cap that you use you might find,
like see now that's poking through and I don't want that, you might find you need
to add a bead as a stopper. So there's just a little bead on there in there. Now
to add the beads with bead stringing wire you just cut yourself some bead
stringing wire a little bit longer maybe five or six inches longer than your cord,
slide it through your wire loop. So here's where I started that one, that
other strand of beads that I already have on here, add a crimp bead to both
the longer and shorter ends of your wire, so slide that down all the way down
so you're stringing wire makes a loop around this loop and flatten that out.
You don't even have to try to do this neatly as long as it's secure you're
good. Then to see where you want to start your beads you just want to slide your
cone on because you really don't, depending on the size of the cone you
have you probably don't want the bulk of the beads underneath the cone. So here's
the wire coming out from underneath the cone and that's a good spot. I've also
made sure to pick a stringing wire that I don't mind seeing some of the color of
because the way this is done you may, they may move along the wire. You could
string an entire strand of beads and then try to feed it through this
knitting but I think that would be difficult and would use a lot of beads so I
just added a few here and there.You just take your wire, string on a few beads
poke it through, come out on the other side, string on a few other beads and
keep going. You can see all the way through. I strung my bail on here first
so that I made sure and didn't try to put any beads right underneath it. So I
put my bail on pretty much centered on my cord so that I wouldn't have any
beads underneath it, that could be awkward, and you just keep going all the
way to the end. When you get to the end you can see how this is sticking out and
making a bit of a loop so you probably want to adjust, pull those up and then
pull that out so that it all hangs neatly and gracefully. You can finish
this wire the same way we started it by first putting on a crimp, poke it through
your loop of wire, go back through the crimp, flatten it, trim the excess wire
once you have this all adjusted the way you want. I've shown you before how to
add bead comes to the end, wire wrap, add a little bit of chain and a clasp and
your necklace is done. The cool thing about doing it this way is you
can interchange pendants
if you want just by changing out your jump ring. So I hope this has given you
some ideas for new and different materials that you can use in your
jewelry making, it doesn't all have to be metal pieces, it can be all sorts of
different fibers to make cord that's interesting and unique. If you're
interested in the supplies I used click on the little "i" in the upper right of
the video or the link in the description box to go to my blog post where I
always have a complete supply list with links to products. Happy creating,
bye bye.
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