Sick of those delicate chains? Try making this cute cord necklace!

Sometimes you don’t feel like adorning yourself with delicate chains and dainty necklaces. Instead, sometimes you found yourself in the mood for a bolder choice. This cord necklace is simple to make but to great effect! Using some recycled cord and a couple of crimp ends you can make this great (and comfortable) necklace.

You will need the following tools and materials to make this cord necklace:

1: Pliers. You will need your flat nose and round nose pliers to make this necklace.

2: A piece of cord. I used this white cord recycled from a paper shopping bag.

3: Two flat crimp ends.

4: One large jump ring.

5: Two small jump rings.

6: Two small head pins.

7: One lobster clasp.

8: Beads of your choice. I used these glass beads (you’ll see that I had to swap my beads around because the first one I chose was too large)

Like the orange? Grab some orange beads here:

9: A charm of your choice. I used this blue shell star charm recycled from an old pair of earrings.

Follow these instructions to make your stunning cord necklace:

1: Add your chosen beads to each of the head pins.

2: Bend each pin at a right angle to the beaded section using the round nose pliers.

3: Once each pin has been bent, use the round nose pliers to form a loop at the top of each pin.

4: Open the jump ring at the top of your chosen charm. Add each of the bead charms and close the jump ring to secure in place (You’ll see here that I ended up swapping my beads around here).

5: Add all the charms to the large jump ring and close it to secure it in place.

6: Slide the large jump ring with the charms onto the piece of cord.

7: Once the charm is in place, take one of the flat crimp ends and place it carefully on one of the cord ends.

8: Use the flat nose pliers to secure the first flat crimp in place.

9: Repeat steps 7 and 8 for the second crimp at the other end of the cord.

10: Add a jump ring to both ends of the necklace on each of the crimps.

11: Keeping on of the jump rings open, slide on the lobster clasp and close the ring again to secure it in place.

12: Once the clasp is in place your necklace is finished! How easy was that?

Here are some other examples of necklaces made using cords and ribbons secured with flat crimp ends.

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