I've been addicted to "leather jewelry" lists on Pinterest, and a friend had a birthday recently, so I thought I'd try my hand at making some.
So. . .like some of my projects, I forget to photographically document until I'm already well into the project, so. . .let me catch you up.
I used my dressform as a scale model for drafting a paper pattern.
So. . .this is where there are pictures missing. I traced the pattern onto leather using disappearing ink (which. . .a word about disappearing ink: It disappears REALLY quickly! So make sure you don't use it and then go get something to drink, because it WILL be gone!)
Then, I cut it out with scissors, and then I cut the fringe part with a rotary cutter and a ruler. (You can see I'd already finished the fringe in the picture below, but this was my attempt at going backwards and photo documenting. You're welcome.)
This picture is when I actually realized I needed to take pictures, so I'm trying to give you the basic idea with this picture.
I cut a reinforcement piece for the top of the necklace and then glued it on.
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While that was drying, I started on the earrings.
Those little strips are reinforcement pieces I glued to the tops.
See?
Back to the necklace. I gathered some jewelry pieces to use to attach the necklace together.
Using a leather punch, I punched two holes at the top of the necklace.
And magically, I have already attached the hardware! (This took a lot longer than it seems.)
Then, as further embellishment, I took a flower. . .
. . .and sewed a safety pin to the back of it.
Then, I attached the flower to the necklace. I used a safety pin in case my friend didn't want to have a flower on the necklace. . .and she can use the flower by itself as well.
Then, I punched two holes at the tops of both earrings.
The hardware for the earrings.
A finished earring.
The finished set.
And without the flower attached.
(Don't you wish you were nicer to me so I would make you these things too? Ha!)
The back. (It's adjustable.)
And I even made the bag (out of a perfume ad in a magazine)!
I'm so crafty!
The End!
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