How to Make a Crocheted Lariat Necklace
Metallic crochet threads provide a way to make your own lariat-style necklace in an evening of watching TV. Add beads to the ends, to help the necklace hang with the weight you expect from jewelry.
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Things You'll Need
- Six 1 centimeter glass beads
- 100-yard ball of metallic-wrapped cotton, Number 5 crochet cotton
- Size F crochet hook
Instructions
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Thread the beads onto the crochet cotton, before you begin to work it. Thread the beads in reverse order from the pattern you wish to create. That is, if you want each end of the necklace to show beads in a traffic light pattern, thread a green bead, yellow bead, and red bead; then a red bead, yellow bead and green bead.
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Chain three stitches and pull up the first bead. Slip stitch to the first chain, pulling up the loop of the chains snugly behind the bead.
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Pull up a long loop on the hook, and bring the next bead up to the piece. Reaching around the bead, draw up a loop from the top of the first bead and chain two, before rejoining to the long loop. Repeat with the third bead.
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Chain one. Make two more single crochets in the same stitch.
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Chain two and turn. Work double-crochets in the two stitches.
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Chain three and turn. Work triple crochet in the second double-crochet. Chain three and turn, work triple- -crochet into the loop of the preceding row. Make two more triple-crochet "links," then another double-crochet row. Work nine more sets of four triple-crocheted links and one double-crocheted row.
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Draw up the last three beads, and secure them as in Step 3.
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Tie off the crochet thread, after the last bead, and work the tails on both ends back into the stitches.
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Tips & Warnings
Make the necklace twice as long to wear it as a belt, or folded in half with both beaded ends drawn through the loop in the middle.
Add charms to both ends using the extra threads for additional weight.
To add more beads in the main part of the necklace, string eight additional beads between the two end sets, and set them in between the triple-crocheted sections instead of doing double-crocheted rows.
To use smaller beads than those that will fit on number 5 crochet cotton, string them on sewing thread that matches the crochet cotton, and hold that thread alongside, for the beaded portions.
References
- Photo Credit yellow cotton ,crochet and hand work image by Maria Brzostowska from Fotolia.com
