Sewing Ideas

Make the season's hottest necklace
with a few simple materials and the new
SINGER® CURVY™ sewing machine.

Accessory designer, and former TEEN VOGUE Accessories Intern Amber Votel, creates by blending Modern Art with re-purposed materials (vintage fabrics, beads, etc.). Here, learn how to make her signature necklace, featuring copper pennies as the focal point, with the SINGER® CURVY™
sewing machine.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

SINGER® CURVY™
sewing machine
Necklace pattern cut on
cardboard (circles cut out too)
15” x 15” piece of black
fusible interfacing
15” x 15” piece of brown
cotton linen
16” x 16” pieces of teal
and navy organza (or other
transparent fabrics)
Gold and chocolate-colored
all-purpose thread

10 shiny pennies
Four 15” strips of brown
linen, each cut ½” wide
Two 15” lengths of
3-5mm (thinner gauge)
copper chain
Trimmings to personalize
your clutch
Straight pins, scissors,
black marking pens,
permanent bonding adhesive
Iron

Votel carefully lays out linen and fusible backing, then she irons both to adhere. Next she traces, cuts and pins on circles.

Gold thread and a long straight stitch on her SINGER® CURVY™ sewing machine give the necklace its feather effects.

Votel finishes the detail on her peacock feather-inspired necklace.

Click here to download the necklace project instructions and pattern

Click here to download the clutch
project sheet from the October issue
of TEEN VOGUE.

Click here to download the tote bag
project sheet from the September issue
of TEEN VOGUE.