Doll Jewelry, Part Six: Cascade Necklaces!

Hola! And sup! Today we return to our doll jewelry project. This is our sixth post about this topic, as you can see from the title. If you want to see our other posts on the subject, scroll down the right sidebar menu and find the label "Doll Jewelry" -- it will bring you where you want to go. Those posts give you more of an idea of our step-by-step process and our supplies/tools if you are curious.

Our project today is creating three "cascade" necklaces for Kaya. We didn't really know what else to call them, but we figure "cascade" is clear enough -- maybe "tiered" would work as well. Essentially what we did is connect three chains of varying length to one magnetic closure.

Warning: Long post. Lots of pictures!

For our first experiment with this technique we used purple, dark grey, and shiny silver chain lengths -- you can see the necklace on our stand in the pics below...

Here are pics of it laid-out flat....

Kaya modeling it for us while wearing Liberty Jane's Salina dress 

from the Spring 2011 line....

Next we wanted to try something much more colorful, so we laid out the various types of chains that we have to pick which three colors to put together....

We chose red, blue, and green for second necklace. This time we made each chain just slightly longer than the previous one, so they would be nested, each chain side by side. See the pic below....

Kaya modeled it with a Maiden Flight Clothing ruched blue tank top...

Here is our process to create this type of necklace: Take one magnetic closure and a standard silver link. Connect that link to the closure, and then connect your three chains (or more, or less, whatevs number you want on there) directly to that silver link.

Then you can measure the chains against each other by laying them out on a flat surface. You can add and remove links according to what length you want each chain to be. To create this colored necklace the chains were relatively close in length, one was just a little bit longer than the previous one.

Then we added a silver link to the other side of the magnetic closure and connected the three chains to that, finishing the necklace.

You can also twist this type of necklace to create a multi-color chain choker. All you do is open up the magnetic closure to put it on your doll, twist the necklace until it looks the way you want it to look, and put it on your doll. Kaya models this look for you below...

We wanted our third cascade necklace to be longer, so you can see how easy it is to create different looks just by adjusting the lengths of the chains. We used the dark grey, shiny silver, and black chains. Once again we connected the three ends to one silver link connected to the magnetic closure. Then we adjusted the length of the chains by adding on links as we saw fit. You can hold up the necklace to your doll to see if it is how you want it to look as you work.

For this necklace we made each chain about an inch longer than the previous one......

And here are shots of Kaya wearing it with a LJ shirt....

Let us know if you have any questions about how to make these types of necklaces!

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We hope you enjoyed this post-- Stay tuned for more doll jewelry posts.  In the future, we will talk about adjusting a couple Forever21 necklaces we bought to fit dolls, and we will show you (most) of our collection of doll jewelry to give y'all ideas for your own projects. :-)

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