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Because you basically live in your tees and shorts during the summer, you're always on the lookout for an easy way to dress everything up without expending much effort. The easiest way to look put together, in our opinion? A big, bold statement necklace. Using just your elementary braiding skills in a clever way, this DIY really shouldn't take you more than 20 minutes to execute from unspooling the rope to clasping it around your neck (to, inevitably, inspiring major jewelry envy from every person who sees it). Check out our quick and easy DIY led by our craft queen, Chloe Daley.
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00:07Hi, I'm Chloe with Refinery29, and today on IDOI, we're going to create a colorful summer
00:12necklace that's perfect for day and night. So let's get started. What you'll need are
00:16two colors of parachute rope, two colors of nylon rope, pliers, scissors, a gold chain,
00:24and a necklace fastener. So for your first step, you're going to start braiding the
00:27different colors of rope, and I just guesstimated about an arm's length for all the pieces.
00:34And I'm going to cut two red pieces and cut one pink piece. You'll want to tie a loose
00:40knot at the end, and then I'm going to loosely braid all three strands. Then once you finish
00:46braiding, you'll want to create another red and pink rope and also a third rope with the
00:50yellow kind. Then once you finish braiding the yellow rope, you'll want to go ahead and untie
00:56all of the three ropes at the end and tie them all together into one knot. So once you tied
01:02the large knot, you'll want to go ahead and keep braiding as you did before. Then at the
01:06end, tie another knot. Then I'm going to take a simple gold chain and use my pliers to open
01:13up and attach this little necklace fastener. Next, you'll want to take the fastened end and
01:19slip it through the knot. Pull it about an inch out. Next, I'm just going to weave the chain through
01:25the braided rope. And once you've pulled that taut, trim the ends of the rope on either side.
01:31Then you'll just want to tidy up the ends here. And that's it. Now you have a great bold necklace
01:36for summer.
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