My aunt has a fun, cool necklace, made of a sort of ribbon, very lightweight and very pretty. Here are some crappy pictures of it.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Do You Recognize This Necklace Technique?
Okay, gang, time to crowd-source a crafting question. (I have a friend who prefaces similar requests on Facebook by starting off, HIVEMIND!)
My aunt has a fun, cool necklace, made of a sort of ribbon, very lightweight and very pretty. Here are some crappy pictures of it.
Do you know how this is made? Any sort of pattern/guidelines/anything for making something similar? It doesn't seem like it would be hard, exactly, just knots, but I for one would need some sort of guidance before tackling it. And that's what she would like to do, since she now has this bundle of similar ribbon-like-stuff.
So, do you know it? Recognize it? Know just who to ask, or what terms to google? Help us out if you can!
My aunt has a fun, cool necklace, made of a sort of ribbon, very lightweight and very pretty. Here are some crappy pictures of it.
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It really *looks* like they just very loosely crochet-chained the ribbony yarny stuff in the rainbow necklace.
ReplyDeleteIf I were doing it, I wouldn't bother with a giant hook but would just use finger crochet.
This is almost certainly best explained with pictures/video, but if not: pretend to tie a regular shoelace-knot in yarn; you end up with the dangle end one side and a loop where you'd normally pull the other shoelace-end through. That loop is your starting point. Pull another piece of yarn-towards-the-ball through; now that's your loop. Repeat. (if you pull it through and tighten, you'll lose the looseness and will end up with something tight that looks like a braid on one side of it and not-like-a-braid on the other side of it)
For loop size, take a look at the rainbow necklace once you've pulled a couple through and (probably) ease up until it matches the rainbow necklace. You can then undo the whole thing by tugging on the ball-of-yarn end of the string - it'll slurp out one loop at a time until you're back to the beginning, and then you can re-start with the correct "tension" for the look you want.
(to be clearer: the crochet-chained part is the "fluffy" part; you would only be crochet-chaining the middle of each "strand" in the necklace, and then would tie all the strands together as one "rope" with a single plain ol' knot at the beginning of the crochet-chained chunk and at the end of the crochet-chained chunk)
ReplyDelete(I should also say: I enjoy the kitten/cat photos and other bloggy content. I just never have anything to say about them.)
Hi CCR, This is called "ladder yarn". If you Google "ladder yarn necklace", you'll see patterns and tutorials. Hopefully, one will be what you're looking for!
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