Making a Ribbon-Covered Necklace

Total Time: About 1 hour

Yield: 1 necklace

Source: My inspiration was a necklace I saw years ago and the teething necklaces I've seen on pinterest.

Supplies:

• 1.5" wide ribbon, wider for larger beads
• 40 unfinished wood beads, 12 mm
• embroidery thread
• needle

Steps:

1. Start by folding your ribbon in half at the end and cut diagonally to the center. It looks fancy this way!

 

 
2. Thread your embroidery thread onto your needle. Knot the end.
3. Measure 12 inches from the end of the ribbon. This will be your starting point. The extra 12 inches of ribbon will be used to make your bow.

 
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4. Insert your needle in the inside of the ribbon, close to the edge of one side.

 
5. Wrap the thread very tightly around the ribbon, about 4 or 5 times.

 
6. Insert your needle from the outside, going inside, as close to the wrapped area as you can.

 
7. Put your bead on your thread. Push the bead flush with the closed end, get it nice and cozy in there!

 
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8. Put your needle at the same point as the top of your bead. From the inside of the ribbon, push the needle to the outside.

 
9. Close the overlapping ribbon over the bead.

 
10. Wrap the thread around the ribbon, enclosing the bead inside, very tightly. I wrapped each one 4 times.

 
11. Continue doing this to make your necklace as long as you would like. If you run out of thread, just tie some more on and wrap the tied part between the beads (to avoid seeing loose thread ends).
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12. When you have your necklace the length you would like, wrap around the ribbon next to your last bead 4 or 5 times. Go under the wrapped thread with your needle a couple of times. Then knot it, to make sure it doesn't come undone.

 

 
13. Cut the ribbon 12 inches from the end of your beads.
14. Cut your end the "fancy way", like you did in the beginning.
15. Tie your bow.