Spring into Accessories w/Lori Gentile

Hello Crate blog readers! Lori Gentile here with you to share a fun tutorial on how to make a button necklace. With Spring right around the corner, updating my wardrobe with some new accessories is a must. One easy way to make a wardrobe current is to add new accessories to the mix.

I wanted to create a necklace to go with the colors currently in my wardrobe. There is nothing funkier or more fun than a cute button necklace to put the Spring in my step, so to speak, especially when it doesn’t break the bank.

The Essentials: Crate Paper's Emma Shoppe Eclectic Buttons, Crate Paper's Neighborhood Ribbon, Embroidery Floss or Nylon Stringing Material, Needle.

Making your own button necklace takes less than one hour and is so easy everyone can do it.

To begin this process you want to arrange some buttons in a way that pleases and excites your sense of style. Choose a complimentary ribbon for your strands.

 

Once you’ve decided on your necklace pattern, it’s time to begin sewing it together. For this necklace I used two strands of floss. I like the thickness of it when threaded through the needle and folded. Start with the bottom button and insert your needle up through the bottom hole.

 

Bring the needle down through the top hole.

 

Now bring the needle up through the bottom hole in the next button.

 

Bring the needle down through the upper hole in the next button. Do not make the thread too tight between the buttons, as you’ll needle some wiggle room for the next few steps.

 

Bring the needle down through center of the threads in between the two buttons.

 

Now bring the needle up through the top hole in the first button.

 

Bring the needle down through the center of the two strands of thread in between the two buttons. Now you can tighten the thread to make the buttons close together.

 

Bring the needle up through the bottom hole in the second button.

 

Bring the needle down through the top hole in the second button.

 

Now you have sewn the first two buttons together and you are ready to continue to follow these steps when adding each new button. The next step is to sew button number three to button number two and so on until you have completed one side.

 

Take the piece of ribbon you have chosen and cut it in half. When you have completed sewing one side of your necklace, sew the last button onto one end of one half of the ribbon.

 

With the ribbon sewn, this is what one half of your necklace will look like. Cut off any ugly thread ends. Now you will want to start sewing the other half of your necklace. Start with the button closest to the first unsewn button, in this case the large red button. Treat that button as button one and follow each step as you did with your first half until you have completed your gorgeous button necklace creation.

If you wanted to create some additional jewelry, you could make a matchingbracelet using the same technique. Adding handmade ribbon flowers to the mix would add a lot of gorgeous texture and uniqueness, as well. Anything goes!

Thank you for stopping by the blog today. I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial. See you, again, next month!

   

Comments

[Floliescrap]

what a beautiful idea ! thank you !

[karen]

Love this Lori!

[Laney]

That's so cute!

[Tona]

Great looking necklace. Thanks for the tutorial too.

[Danielle Flanders]

Wow......that is SOOO cute!

[Amy H]

How adorable is THAT?? Genius, Lori, really!! LOVE it!

[Julie Tucker-Wolek]

Wowwwwwwwww! This is GORGEOUS! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

[DonnaBryantDurand]

this is spectacular!!!!!

[Melia Laprade]

Whatta brilliant idea, huh! Very gorgeous and girly! My sister loves making accessories, too! Usually, she's makes accessories made from bronze. I'll tell her about your blog. =)