Pleather necklace DIY September 9, 2017 13:32
Recently I did an Instagram Story about a necklace I made with some leftovers I had from a workshop we'd done. It got lovely feedback I decided to make it into a proper DIY. Here's the original pic
And here is the tutorial. You will need:
- Pleather or leather scraps
- Rigid sticky-back vinyl. This is the stuff we use to make lampshades, but you could exchange the vinyl for sticky back foam or felt
- Scissors or a scalpel and cutting mat
- A holepunch
- Chain and jumprings
- Doublesided tape, I like stix2anything
1. Stick the scraps of leather or pleather onto the sticky side of vinyl or whatever you're using, to give it a bit of rigidity and thickness
2. Plan a design based on the shape of the scraps you have
3. Trim the pieces with scissors, or for a neater effect scalpel and ruler, to match the shapes in your design
4. Peel off the the backing paper from your vinyl/felt and stick the pieces, face up, on the sticky side. Make sure they butt up neatly against each other
5. Trim away the excess vinyl/felt so that only your front pieces are showing.
6. I adding these extra bits made from the trimmed scraps using double-sided tape. They did the added job of hiding the not- so-perfect joins (this wont be a problem if you use a ruler and scalpel)
7. Punch a hole in the top two corners. You can pierce a hole with a spike but the holepunch gives such a satisfyingly clean and neat hole
8. Add a chain
