Pleather necklace DIY September 9, 2017 13:32 11 Comments

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