17 Oct 2009 diy or die: insta-necklace

This was so easy I’m not sure it qualifies as a project. But it helped relieve the separation anxiety I felt after leaving work without buying a certain black ribbon necklace, so I recommend it!

1. Cut off the bottom inch or two of a t-shirt or skirt. If you’re like me, you do this all the time and have a bag full of scraps already. I used the neckline of a black t-shirt.
2. Take your favorite charm off a necklace you never wear.
3. Since I was using a padlock heart, I just folded the fabric strip in half and made one of those loopy adjustable knots (?) through the opening.
4. Tie in a haggard bow at the nape of your neck.
5. Tie any extra fabric around your wrist for a matching insta-bracelet. Fini!

What do you do with all your discarded skirt-hems, necklines and jean legs? I can’t help but wonder about all the lost sweatshirt-necks of the 80s. Did they come together to make an enormous quilt? Or were they just heather vagabonds, floating around back-alley trash heaps, never to catch the sweat of a dancer again?