- Fold the necklace in half lengthwise, right sides together and edge to edge.
- Iron to mark the fold well
- Pin all the way through, leaving an opening in the middle of about 10-15 cm (only 5-10 cm may be enough for thin fabrics)
➡️ This space will allow us to completely turn our necklace right side out. We will actually stitch all the way down, but we will leave a few centimeters unstitched.
💡 Tip: we advise you to put 2 pins instead of one, at the 2 ends of your hole so as not to miss it when pricking (it happened to us a lot of times! Without realizing it, we had pricking all the way through without leaving an opening, so we could no longer turn our Necklace over)
- Insert your needle at point A, 1 cm from the edge. We start as usual with a backstitch, and we pay attention to go right to the edge by going backwards, before going forward again.
- Continue to straight stitch 1 cm from the edge until you reach point B, where you will make another backstitch. Repeat the same process as before to stitch at the corner.
- Make a second stitch starting from point C this time, up to point D. Again, we make a backstitch to start, we apply it in the corner, and we finish with a backstitch to secure our stitch.
- Trim the corners of the Collar in the same way we did earlier with the Flag
- Turn the necklace right side out, passing it completely through the opening we left. Use your pointed object again to shape the corners.
- Iron carefully, flattening the seams with the iron.
Now that our necklace is in its right place, we now need to close the hole that we left: to do this we will simply stitch along this opening, as close to the edge as possible this time:
- Very simply, come and stitch your necklace at the opening, as close to the edge as possible. This is called a rib stitch. We start and finish as usual with a backstitch.
- Cut off any excess threads and iron again.
❓ What is a ribbed stitch? It is a decorative stitch, also called a "hair stitch" (but it's rare honestly), which is sewn 1 or 2 millimeters from the edge of a fabric (or a fold). Beyond its purely decorative function, the ribbed stitch can be used to reinforce a seam, to keep a seam lying in one direction, or even to flatten an area (our case here with the < holly > bandana for example)
❓ How to make a rib stitch? We position ourselves on the right side of our work and we come to sew with a straight stitch, all along our fold or our seam, at a distance of 1 or 2 millimeters. There is therefore nothing very complicated, the only difficulty with the rib stitch is to make it as regularly as possible (perfectly parallel to our mark)
💡 Please note that it is also possible to close this opening using an invisible stitch, but this is not absolutely necessary in our case.
- It is also possible, if you wish, to topstitch your collar along its entire length, as we did with the Flag. In this case, we recommend doing this stitching in one go. It will therefore be both decorative and useful - to close the opening
