Crochet Necklace

Now I've started to make the necklace. As almost always when buying yarn I buy one or two extra balls, I bought extra yarn to make the laces longer.

The necklace is a gift to a friend. She is like me, a bit larger and taller than a japanese woman.

The bouclé yarn of unknown fiber gives the necklace a robust look. I'm using crochet hook 8 mm.

Crochet techniques used in this pattern are chain stitch, slip stitch and puff stitch. The collar consists of three laces attached to one another to make one long rope to twist around the neck.

Description of the symbols: 

An open oval ring = chain stitch

A filled oval ring = slip stitch

A half moon with a small line above, 8 inside and two chain stitches to the right = a puff stitch in the second chain stitch from the crochet hook, (yarn over, retrieve the yarn through the same stitch) 8 times, yarn over and pull through all stitches on the hook, close with a slip stitch.

What I'm thinking about now is whether to make the necklace as the pattern says or in another way.