Fashionista Statement Necklace TUTORIAL

Fashionista

Erin Siegel

A bright and bold statement necklace fit for a queen of fashion!

Materials:

76 antique silver 9mm splitrings

1 handmade cobalt blue 5-piece ceramicfan set by Elaine Ray

1 antique silver 23mmfiligree loop toggle clasp

9 feet of dahlia hot pink duponisilk ribbon

15 feet of sunflower yellow4ply Irish waxed linen cord

Tools:

Scissors

Ruler

Finished size: 17 ½”

Instructions: 

 

1: Cut the waxed linen cord into twelve 12” pieces and two 18” pieces. Set aside. Cut the silk ribbon into six 18” pieces. Set aside.

 2: Use one end of 3 pieces of waxed linen cord to string the bottom hole of 1 piece of the ceramic fan from back to front. Use the other end of the 3 cords to string the bottom hole of the adjacent piece in the fan set from back to front. Use the 3 cords coming from the first van piece to string the second hole up in the adjacent piece in the fan set from front to back. Use the 3 cords coming from the adjacent fan piece to string the second hole in the first piece in the fan set from front to back. Continue stringing the fan pieces together in a criss-cross fashion for the rest of the holes up to the top. Tie the ends of the cord together in a square knot at the top of the fan pieces in the front. Trim ends to ¼”. Repeat entire step to attach all 5 pieces of the ceramic fan together.

 

3: Use one piece of silk ribbon to string 1 free hole in one side of the ceramic fan focal piece. Repeat for the remaining 5 silk ribbons.

 4: Bring the ends of one silk ribbon together and use both ends to string 12 split rings. Repeat 5 times for remaining silk ribbons.

  5: On one side of the necklace, bring all the ribbon ends together and use them to string one split ring. Fold 3” of ribbon over the split ring. Leaving a 2” tail, wrap 18” of waxed linen cord around the folded silk ribbon 15 times. Tie the waxed linen cord ends in a square knot and trim. Trim the silk ribbon ends 1” from the linen cord wraps. Use 1 split ring to attach the previous split ring to one half of the clasp. Repeat entire step for the other side of the necklace.

 

Resources:

All materials: Ornamentea.com

This necklace is inspired by a favorite design created by my good friend and designing diva, Cynthia Deis, Owner of Ornamentea.com. See Cynthia's original necklace design and tutorial HERE.

I'm designing for Ornamentea!

Gold Glam Earrings 

These earrings were designed for Ornamentea. The tutorial for them appear in the 2012 issue of 101 Bracelets, Necklaces and Earrings on newsstands now.  All materials can be found at Ornamentea.com.

Hello all, I have some really exciting news to share! I'm pleased and very, very proud to announce I'm now a contributing designer for Ornamentea.com. Ornamentea is a shop and online store known for unique, high-quality jewelry and craft supplies, cool classes, awesome Elaine Ray ceramic beads and hip, chic jewelry projects and tutorials. I am just bursting-at-the-seams giddy about this amazing opportunity that owner, Cynthia Deis has bestowed upon me. There isn't a person or business that I would want to be associated with more than Cynthia and her fabulous Ornamentea. We are a perfect match and I couldn't be happier with this partnership! I hope she will want me to design for her forever and ever and ever.

So what will my role be as an Ornamentea designer? Every month, I will be creating a jewelry project and step-by-step photo tutorial with supplies and materials all from Ornamentea.com. My jewelry tutorials will be available for free download on their website, located on the Free Tutorials and project ideas page and the tutorials will also go out in Ornamentea's project newsletter, the Dispatch. If you don't get the Dispatch newsletter, you'll want to sign up. It will keep you up-to-date with all the new free tutorials and projects! My finished projects will be on display at the physical store location in Raleigh, NC as well.

In the coming days, my first project will be available online. I. can. not. wait. to share it with you! I hope you will enjoy my projects and creations from goodies you can find at Ornamentea...Stay tuned.

Ornamentea: Part 1-Book Signing & Make n' Take

I'm back from my whirlwind trip to Raleigh, NC to visit Ornamentea! Last Friday, Ornamentea hosted a book signing for our book, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry. Then, on Saturday, I taught my Bohemian Knotted Earrings Workshop. What a great time. First of all, shop owner, Cynthia Deis was the most amazing, gracious host. I'm so thrilled she wanted to have Lorelei and I there. She runs an incredible bead shop and after chatting with Cynthia and seeing her shop for myself in person, I have a much deeper appreciation for her and her business. I was blown away. What a gem of a store. I really don't know how she gets customers to leave when it's time to close up and go home. It must be difficult because Ornamentea has a wonderful inventory of anything a beader or crafter could possibly want and everything is displayed so beautifully from ceiling to floor! Plus, helpful, friendly staff, great bead events and truck shows and cool classes. I can't say enough about how wonderful this shop is. You must visit.

This table is in the middle of the shop when you walk in. It is brimming with all kinds of treasures. Beads, buttons, crepe cord, spools of linen, silk ribbons, jewelry and even chocolate! Yum. Copies of our book are on display here along with a fun box of fibers and beads to go with it. One lucky person who came to our book signing on Friday night won this stash of goodies.

Along with the book signing event on Friday night, Ornamentea hosted a Make n' Take project from the book. The chosen project was my Leather Ruffle Hoops. Most of the supplies I used in the original earrings came from the store. I helped some of the staff set up the work table for the make n' take before the evening got started. Above, I am showing Jordan how to make the earrings. I was lucky enough to have her as my assistant for the project that night.

Here I am helping Lil with her make n' take earrings. Lil was actually the lucky winner of the fun box of fibers Ornamentea gave away at the book signing later that evening! Lucky girl.

Here's Jordan running the second round of the make n' take project. She did a fantastic job of making sure everything went smoothly. I'm so thrilled with how it all went. Everyone seemed to really be enjoying making the earrings. It was busy the entire night, but I did get to chat with a few after they finished their earrings. They loved them and most everyone I saw wore their earrings out the door.

Here's Lorelei and me at our signing table. On the table, we have a few of the original jewelry pieces from the book. We're talking to Amy, one of the lovely gals who came that night. She was really sweet and cute. It was so nice chatting with her and absolutely everyone who stopped by. And speaking of some others, Lori and I got to meet some special friends we know from the bead blogging community. The amazing LeAnn of Summers Studio. We have 3 of LeAnn's handmade components incorporated into projects throughout the book. We also got to meet the lovely Marcie of La Bella Joya! It was such a pleasure to meet both of these ladies in person. I've admired each of them for years now. Marcie actually came the following day on Saturday for my Bohemian Knotted Earrings class. I'll be talking more about that in another upcoming post. Stay tuned for Ornamentea: Part 2-My Class!

Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry

now available at Ornamentea.com!