This tutorial will take a number of posts to show the complete process of knotting your cord to make an adjustable necklace for stringing a beads or pendants.
To tie a cord that is adjustable, start with a cord that is about 5 inches longer than your desired length for the finished necklace. If you want a 25 inch finished necklace, start with a 30 inch piece of cord. The final necklace can be adjusted to be 3-4 inches shorter by pulling the knots apart.
This tutorial will start to show the knotting.
We buy our cord for this application from " B Toucan ". We could not get their .8 mm cord through a perfect 1.25 mm hole so we assume that the stated diameters are measured under strain . LtihicBeads’ pendant pictures use the .8 mm for 2.5 mm drilled holes and 1.8 mm cord for 4 mm holes. Either cord may be doubled through those holes as in a faced drilled application.
The first picture shows that you start with your cord with the free ends overlapping.
We'll start knotting the left free end.
Picture three shows how the free end is wrapped around the other side of the cord, wrapping to the left (away from the center). Wrap at least 2 times, loosely.
The next post will show the next steps for side one.
Additional posts will show how to do the second side and how to adjust the length of the finished cord.