How to Make a Kandi Microphone Necklace
Make a beaded microphone "kandi" necklace to wear to the next rave you attend. The colorful, beaded jewelry worn by ravers, referred to as kandi, is most commonly made with plastic pony beads. You can make a microphone out of colorful plastic beads as well, but you will need a bead that you can fuse together with a clothing iron. Fusible plastic beads can be arranged to make any small pendant, which you can attach to the necklace.
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Things You'll Need
- Measuring tape
- Elastic cord
- Scissors
- Fusible plastic beads
- Peg board
- Ironing paper
- Clothing iron
- Pony beads
- String
Instructions
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Arrange black plastic fusible beads in the shape of a microphone on a plastic bead peg board. Put a piece of ironing paper over the beads. Iron the beads together with a clothing iron set on the medium setting with no steam, for 8 seconds. Wait 5 minutes, turn the pattern over and repeat to fuse the other side. The microphone shape is fused together but the holes in the beads are still visible.
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Measure around your neck with measuring tape and add 2 inches so you can slip the necklace over your head. Measure elastic beading cord and add 3 inches to the length you determined, so you can tie knots to secure the necklace. The elasticity of the cord and the extra length gives the necklace more slack to put over your head, so you don't need a clasp.
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Tie a knot in one end of the cord, about 1 1/2 inches from the end. Add plastic pony beads to the other end, in your choice of color pattern, until you get to the middle of the cord.
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Cut two pieces of beading thread to 4 inches long. Feed the end of one of the strings through a bead on the left edge of the microphone and do the same on the right side. Tie the strings to the cord on the middle of the necklace where you left off with the pony beads. Tie the strings in six tight knots to secure the microphone to the necklace.
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String pony beads after the microphone in the same color pattern as the first half, until you have 1 1/2 inches left of cord. Make an overhand knot after the last bead. Tie both ends of cord together to finish the necklace. Slip the necklace over your head when you are ready to wear it.
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