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    DIY Beaded Tassel Necklace Tutorial

    Updated: Mar 21, 2018 by Melissa Mortenson · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 1 Comment

    Learn how to DIY a Beaded Tassel Necklace with this simple tutorial. You can even personalize it a bit more by adding a covered button to the end. If you like this post, then you may also like this covered button necklace tutorial. 

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    I find the process of designing and printing fabric fascinating. Before I worked as a designer I never had any idea how it all worked, now I know a lot more (but still have so much to learn).

    One of the things I learned was that before the mills print yards and yards of your fabric, they send small “strike offs” to you. These small strike offs are used to check the print quality, and color of the fabric.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    The other thing I learned is that you plan REALLY far ahead. It can take 2 years from when I start designing a line for it to hit the shelves. During a part of that timeline, the stores decide which fabric lines they want to carry. Designers and manufacturers present their lines at trade shows like International Quilt Market so the stores can see what they have to pick from. In May I had a booth at quilt market showing my Safari Party line of fabrics. Since the booth was held BEFORE the fabric came out, I was sewing with digital printed yardage, which is not exactly the same as actual yardage. For example, there is no way to print gold sparkle on digital fabric.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Since my line had so much gold sparkle in it, I was a bit stressed trying to decide how to show it at market.  After a bit of stress I realized that I may not have had yardage of the actual fabric, but I did have a lot of strike offs. The strike off fabrics that were about 4″ x 6″ and best of all they had the sparkle!

    I had no idea what to make with such tiny fabric pieces! In my last-minute preparations, I got the idea to make a tassel necklace to wear during the event. I thought it would be a fun way to show off one of my favorite prints in the line, the zebras.

     

    Recap of Spring Quilt Market 2017 in St. Louis

    I made one and wore it during all of market (and have worn it a bunch since then as well).

    I got a lot of questions about the necklace, and today I’m excited to be sharing with you a tutorial to make your own beaded tassel necklace.

    How to Make a DIY Beaded Tassel Necklace:

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    My oldest daughter is home for the summer and is actually the one that taught me about jewelry making, so I asked her to make another necklace using the same technique. She made the pink elephant one, which I think turned out so cute!

    If you want to make one you’ll need (contains affiliate links):

    Supplies: (click the links for the sources or to purchase)

    Beads – the wood beads were purchased on Amazon – pink ones HERE, natural ones HERE

    Size 45 Covered Button (1 ⅛″) 

    Fabric – I used scraps from my Safari Party Line

    30mm round Cabochon – these are similar to the ones I used

    Tassel

    Ceramic Bead & Gold Spacer Beads- (purchased locally)

    Jewelry Wire 

    Jewelry Lobster Clasp, Jump Rings

    Crimping Beads

    Basic Jewelry Making Supplies; needle-nose pliers, bead tray, tweezers (you can purchase a simple starter kit online which includes all of these items)

     

     

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Instructions:

    Using your jewelry tray, lay out the beads of your necklace the way you want them to appear on your finished necklace. You will need to also measure how long you’d like your necklace to be. Some jewelry boards are larger than other, but you should be able to lay out all of your beads at once, if not at least ½ of it at a time. At the dead center of your beaded necklace, place a jump ring.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Cut a piece of jewelry wire that is longer than you want your finished necklace to be.  Feed one end of the wire through a crimping bead, then feed the wire through the loop on the lobster clasp and back thru the crimping bead.  Use the pliers to crimp the bead and hold the lobster clasp in place.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Feed the beads onto your wire, make sure you feed your jump ring through at the midway point.  When you get to the end, repeat the same process but use a jump ring instead of a lobster clasp.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Set aside.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Cut a small piece of jewelry wire and feed it through the loop on your tassel.  Feed the wire though the 2 spacer beads and ceramic bead. Pull on the wire to feed the tassel though to the other side.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Attach a jump ring to the end of the tassel, to do this slightly open the jump ring using your pliers, then feed it through and close it.

    How to Cover the Button with Fabric:

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Next, cover your button with fabric. Use the guide that came with your covered button kit to get the exact right piece of fabric on the button.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Cut the shank off of the button after you’ve covered it.

    If your cabochon does not have a ring on the top and the bottom, glue two cabochons together back to back with one ring facing up and one facing down. I used a hot glue gun, you can also use E6000 glue.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Glue your covered button to the center of the cabochon.

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    Attach the tassel to the bottom of the cabochon using a jump ring. Attach the top of the cabochon to your necklace using the jump ring that you beaded into it.

     

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

    That’s it! You’re done!

    They are pretty easy to make, and would be a fun project to tackle with older kids!

    Fun and easy DIY Beaded Tassel necklace with covered button! Learn how to make a tassel necklace with this simple jewelry tutorial

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    Melissa Mortenson

    Melissa Mortenson is a blogger, designer, and content creator. She is the Polka Dot Chair blog founder and has been sharing fresh and creative ideas with readers since 2008. She is the author of “Project Teen, Handmade Gifts your Teen will Actually Love.” Her work and designs have been featured on HuffPost, TODAY, Pioneer Woman, HGTV, BuzzFeed, Better Homes & Gardens, and many other established publications. Her first fabric line, “Derby Style,” debuted in January 2015 through Riley Blake Designs.  Additional fabric collections have followed it in subsequent years. A mom of 3, she considers herself lucky to be living in Kentucky.

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    1. Lisa says

      August 31, 2017 at 9:17 am

      I love this necklace! The link for the tassels just took me to a page of tassel options. Is there a link to the actual tassels you used? Thanks!

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