Make fashion leather crafts: stylish butterfly necklace

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

A skillful craftswoman will always find a use for old things. Agree, many have a long-out-of-fashion leather coat or jacket gathering dust in the far corner of the closet, right? Is it possible to bring interesting ideas to life using these things from quite good material? Consider what crafts you can make from leather with your own hands. Let's look at how to make a small but stylish thing - butterfly necklaces.

What crafts can be made from leather?

First of all, of course, these are all kinds of wardrobe items and accessories: belts, ties, bags. But, unfortunately, not all craftswomen have at hand special tools for processing layers of coarse linen. Moreover, it is quite dangerous and risky, for example, to sew a bag of very rough leather on an ordinary typewriter. Let's try to make something simple and affordable. As a decoration, small leather crafts are now very popular. The master class presented in this article will help you make a simple, but at the same time stylish and original accessory - a butterfly necklace. The guidance is given in the form of a step-by-stepinstructions with comments.

Step one: craft template

The necklace shown in the photo, combined with a dress that has a similar motif, looks very stylish. In order not to be mistaken in proportions and sizes, take a fabric sample to make a template.

1. Cut out a butterfly from a piece of material.
2. Place the piece of fabric on paper and circle with a pencil. Cut along the outline.
3. Check the symmetry - fold the template in half along the middle line of the butterfly. Remove mismatched protrusions with scissors.
4. If desired, you can make several blanks of different sizes. To do this, scale the template to the size you need.

Step two: making a butterfly necklace

Having made a pattern, proceed to transfer the template to the skin.

1. Choose high-quality sections of material for making crafts - even, of the same color, without scuffs or other damage. Use a sharp clerical knife to cut apart used leather items along the seams, and then lightly iron the reverse side through a dry cloth.
2. Turn the material prepared for work upside down.
3. Spread the blanks on pieces of leather and circle the template along the edge with a pen. No seam allowance is needed.
4. When cutting blanks from leather, crafts can be difficult to make even and neat. Use scissors for thin material, and a sharp knife with a sharpened tip and a wooden table stand for rough material.
5. Cover the butterflies with colored varnishfor nails.
6. Stick the blanks on the tape of the required length. Mask the ends of the tape. You can use a stapler or special fasteners that are available in hardware stores to secure.

An unusually original interpretation of the necklace will be a variant of connecting small and large butterflies in turn. Crafts can be decorated with beads, beads, macramé braids, embroidery, knitted elements, etc.

Several options for making an accessory

The original leather butterfly can be used not only as an element of a long necklace around the neck. Use just a few pieces glued onto a ribbon and you'll have a headband or wristband. Similarly, you can build an exclusive hairpin or brooch. Just make the template a little larger and double layered (for density). Attach your favorite clasp to it.

So, leather crafts can be very diverse. What yours will be depends on the imagination and skill of the needlewoman. Create, surprise others with new ideas!