Valentine's Day Necklace

It's Emily Leiphart here with my January Design Team Project for The Twinery! I thought these necklaces would be so much fun to make for the little girls in my life. I cut three feet of twine in Pink Sorbet, Mandarin and Lemondrop. Two feet is probably enough but it's important to leave slack for loops and knots. It's better to have more than to come up short in the end!

To create an accent at the ends, I knotted all three strands of twine and threaded pink buttons back-to-back with the Mandarin and Lemondrop twine, leaving the Pink Sorbet free in the centre. I tied another knot to enclose the pairing and started threading the hearts.

With each heart pairing, I added a button in the colour that was not represented in the hearts and used the corresponding twine colour to hold the trio in place. One by one, all colours are represented and in a sequential order. It may look random but it's not! The other two colours of twine not threaded through remain aligned at the back since they are all used every third heart. After seven sets of hearts are attached, I created the same knot-button-knot sequence to finish.

To create a clasp, I attached a larger button to one end and a duffle coat loop to the other.

Since these necklaces are going to preschool girls, I made sure there was no chance of any of these buttons coming loose, hence the design of this necklace.

Here's the back view where you can see that the entire necklace is one continuous strand.

And one last look at the finished necklace. :)

Additional photos and instructions can be found on my blog!

Sources: GinaK 120lb pure luxury White cardstock; Papertrey Ink Heart Prints; SU Rose Red, Tangerine Tango & Summer Sun inks; EK Success Large and Medium Heart punches; Marvy-Uchida 1/8" long reach circle punch; The Twinery baker's twine in Pink Sorbet, Mandarin & Lemondrop; Basic Grey buttons (orange and yellow); Forever in Time buttons (pink); Papertrey Ink buttons (yellow)