Zippers are constantly present in our lives, but mostly we use them in clothes or accessories. The article will discuss examples of how to make jewelry from lightning with your own hands. These are brooches and pendants, pendants and key rings. To make them, you will need sheets of felt, metal lightning, threads, a bunch of wool, chalk for marking lines, a gypsy needle for felting.
Zipper insert inside fabric
First, think over a picture for crafts and make a template out of cardboard. Cut the entire fabric from the snake with scissors, leaving a narrow strip near the metal links. Then, from the sheets of felt, cut out the contours of the picture according to the pattern. In the place where the lightning will be fixed, it is necessary to make cuts. Starting from the edge of the craft, sew the strip to the felt so that only metal links are visible from the outside.
Masters often use fishing line instead of threads so as not to spoil the appearance of the product. You can do the opposite - choose contrasting bright threads and flash each link over the edge. Such a seam will become an element of decor.
Outdoor location
Do-it-yourself jewelry from zippers can be made in another way. The felt blank is not cut, but remains whole. A strip with metal links is sewn directly onto the fabric with neat stitches made between the teeth.
This method allows you to create any curls or sew small pieces of zipper in a selected place. This expands the field of activity, allowing you to create complex compositions.
Felting wool
To fill the voids of the picture created with the help of sewn lightning, the craftsmen use a bunch of wool for felting. It can be chosen in different colors to fill each sector of the picture. So, in the sample in the photo below, pink wool is used to work on the heart.
You will also need a special needle for felting - they pierce the wool with it until it falls down. And so that it is possible to perforate the decoration from felt, put foam or polystyrene under the blank.
Now insert small pieces of wool in the right place on the workpiece and reinforce it with felting. When all the areas are filled, cover the back side of the craft with a felt sheet cut out according to the same pattern as the front part.
Beautiful butterfly
Knowing how to make a step-by-step decoration of zippers with your own hands, you can try to make a Butterfly brooch. Black is suitable as a background fabric - the threads used to attach strips with metal links will not be visible on it.
Felting wool can be used in the same color, or you can make butterfly wings multicolored. On the back side, crafts strengthen the safety pin with hot glue - and the brooch is ready!
Successful undertakings. Try it, you will surely succeed!