Have leftover plastic lacing? Use it to make our matching Wood and Neon Lanyard Necklaces.

Tools and Materials

Craft knife
Piece of shoulder leather, cut into strips
Glue, such as Magna-Tac
Plastic lacing

1. Using knife, cut 1 strip to desired width, and twice the length needed for a bangle (it should slide over your hand). Ours were approximately 16 inches long. Cut a piece of plastic lacing 65 inches long.
2. Loop leather strip to desired bangle size; apply a dot of glue, sandwich end of lacing between layers of leather, and squeeze.
3. Working an inch at a time, glue layers together and wrap strip tightly with lacing (creating strips or crisscrosses). To finish, tuck end of lacing between leather, snip, and glue.

Economy Single Leather Shoulder, 4-5 oz., $7 per square foot, tandyleatherfactory.com. Plastic lacing, $3 for 100 yd., rexlaceclub.com.