I've been busy lately moving house so I apologize for the gap in posts.
Anyway in this blog I thought I'd show how to make some basic earrings, shown below. If your just starting out these earrings are a great way to practice making hoops.
For this choose 6 beads, that's 3 for each earring. 2 headpins, 4 eye pins and 2 ear hooks.
First thread the botom bead, in this case the blue crackle glass bead on to a head pin
Anyway in this blog I thought I'd show how to make some basic earrings, shown below. If your just starting out these earrings are a great way to practice making hoops.
For this choose 6 beads, that's 3 for each earring. 2 headpins, 4 eye pins and 2 ear hooks.
First thread the botom bead, in this case the blue crackle glass bead on to a head pin
Next bead the wire 90 degrees to the bead then double back on yourself to make a hoop, cut of any excess wire or alternatively round it around the base of the hoop. Now do this again with the other bottom bead. for a picture diagram of this technique check out my Blog on Creating a Steampunk brooch and keyring
Now open the end of the eye pin just enough to put the hoop of your bottom bead in then close and thread your next bead on the eye pin. Do this again with the next bead.
Once all beads are looped together its time to had the final part. Take the ear wire and open the hoop enough to hang your earring on, now close it and you have finished earrings.
