How to make a cute statement necklace with cord!

This cute necklace features a beaded ladder pendant threaded onto a recycled cord necklace. This is a cool way to use recycled materials and make a cool pendant that stands out from the usual jewellery you see! Please note that this tutorial contains affiliate links.

You’ll need these tools and materials to make your cord statement necklace:

1: Some eye pins. The number depends on how many ‘rungs’ you want to make. I used 10.

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2: Two head pins.

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3: A piece of cord. I used this one that I had already attached some crimp ends and a clasp to. If you don’t have one already made up, you’ll also need two flat crimp ends, two jump rings and a lobster clasp.

4: A couple of large jump rings.

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5: Some beads. I used these green e beads and some glass floral beads. I had to use an extra e-bead on one of the charms because the bead hole was bigger than the end of the head pin. You won’t need this extra bead if you’re pins are the right size!

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6: Pliers. I used my flat nose and round nose pliers. Keep your cutting pliers on hand just in case.

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Follow these steps to make your cord statement necklace:

1: Add the glass beads to the head pins.

2: Bend the pins to form a right angle and then loop the tops to secure the beads in place.

3: Set the charms aside.

4: Add beads to one of the eye pins, leave about 1cm without beads.

5: Bend the end of the pin to form a loop which will secure the beads in place.

6: Repeat steps 4 and 5 for the rest of the eye pins, so you have ten pins beaded.

7: Attach two of the pins together, do this by slightly opening one of the loops and sliding the other pin through. Close the loop again to secure them together.

8: Repeat step 8 to attach another two pins so that you have a chain of four pins.

9: Take the ends of the chain and attach them together to form a square shape.

10: Attach another three pins together.

11: Attach the three pins to the bottom of the first square you made. This will form the second square.

12: Repeat steps 10 and 11 for the remaining three pins, now you will have a ladder shape with three rungs.

13: Take the charms you made at the start and attach each one to the bottom corners of the ladder.

14: Add a jump ring to each corner of the top of the ladder.

15: Now slide the ladder charm onto the cord necklace.

Now your necklace is finished and ready to wear! So so unique and cute! I think this is a great summer piece perfect for your boho hippie look!