Making fancy leather crafts: a stylish necklace of butterflies

A skilled craftswoman will always find an old one.things. You must admit that many have a leather raincoat or jacket that has long been out of fashion and is gathering dust in the far corner of the closet, isn’t it? Is it possible to realize interesting ideas using these things from quite good-quality material? Consider what you can make leather crafts with your own hands. Let us examine the procedure for making a small but stylish things - necklaces from butterflies.

What can be made of leather crafts?

В первую очередь это, конечно же, всевозможные Wardrobe items and accessories: belts, ties, bags. But, unfortunately, not all craftswomen have on 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 an ornament, small leather crafts are very popular now. The master class presented in this article will help you to make a simple, but at the same time stylish and original accessory - a necklace of butterflies. The manual is given in the form of step-by-step instructions with comments.

Stage One: DIY Template

The necklace presented in the photo in combination with a dress having a similar motif looks very stylish. In order not to be mistaken in proportions and sizes, take a fabric sample for making a pattern.

1. Cut a butterfly from a piece of material.
2. Attach a cloth cut to the paper and circle around the pencil. Cut along the contour.
3. Check the symmetry - fold the pattern in half along the midline of the butterfly. Scissor remove missed projections.
4. If desired, you can make several blanks of different sizes. To do this, scale the template to the size you need.

Stage Two: Making a Necklace of Butterflies

1. Choose quality sections of the material forcrafts - even, one color, without scuffs and other damage. Worn leather items are cut apart along the seams with a sharp stationery knife, and then slightly iron the back side through a dry cloth.
2. Turn the material prepared for work upside down.
3. Lay out on pieces of leather blanks and circle the template along the edge of the handle. Seam allowances are not necessary.
4. When cutting out blanks from leather craftsdifficult to make smooth and neat. Use scissors for a thin material, and a sharp knife with a sharpened tip and a wooden stand on the table for coarse material.
5. Cover butterflies with colored nail polish.
6. Glue the workpiece on the tape of the desired length. Disguise the ends of the tape. It is possible to use a stapler or special fasteners, which are in the hardware stores, for fastening.

Unusually original interpretationNecklaces will be the option of alternately connecting small and large butterflies. Crafts can be decorated with beads, beads, macrame wickers, embroidery, knitted items, etc.

Several options for making accessory

Original leather butterfly can beused not only as an element of a long necklace on the neck. Use only a few parts pasted on the tape, and you get a bezel on your head or a bracelet on your hand. Similarly, you can build an exclusive hairpin or brooch. Just make the template somewhat larger and double-layered (for density). Attach the fastener you like to it.

So, leather crafts can be very diverse. What will be yours - depends on the imagination and skill of the needlewoman. Be creative, amaze those around you with new ideas!