Beaded Currant Earrings - Jewellery Making Tutorial
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Beaded Currant Earrings - Jewellery Making Tutorial
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Beaded Currant Earrings - Jewellery Making Tutorial
Designed by: Paula Ziemska
Difficulty: Beginner
We know you like dangly earrings. This time we will learn how to do such miracles using only beads and threads. Such juicy-looking bead currants are great for highlighting holiday outfits. They can also be used to create truly unique jewellery. So if you want to learn how to make beaded currant earrings, we invite you to learn together with Paula.
Hi loves! Welcome to my next course. What do you like summer for the most? I mainly use seasonal fruits. We have already made bead strawberries, now we are going to make earring currants! Ready? Let's bead! Paula xx
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- 4mm or 6mm Beads in cream, purple or red
- TOHO 11/0 beads - green and black if possible
- TOHO beads 8/0 - 2 beads
- Earwires
- Jump Rings - Must fit through the Toho size 8 (approx. hole size 1.3mm).
- Pliers
- Beading thread
- Needle
- Scissors
Remember - our tutorials are for inspiration and learning purposes. They include links to the relevant categories for you to choose your own colour combinations and we positively encourage you to experiment with different shapes, sizes, finishes, composition and texture. Why not choose your own beads and colours to achieve something in your own style? Let your imagination run wild and make your dream jewellery.
Designed by Paula Ziemska - July 2021
Step 1
Cut about 50 cm of the thread and thread the needle.
Step 2
Take a TH8 / 0 bead and 2 TH11 / 0 beads.
Step 3
We go through the whole twice so that the needle comes out of the TH11 / 0 bead.
Step 4
Take 2 TH11 / 0 beads. We stick into the bead adjacent to the one from which the thread comes out. We go down through the previous 2 TH11 / 0. And we come out of the newly added TH11 / 0 bead.
Step 5
Repeat this manoeuvre until you have a double chain with a total of 22 beads (11 rows).
Step 6
Now we take one TH11 / 0 bead. We go through the entire piece so that the thread comes out of the first sequence of TH11 / 0 beads added.
Step 7
Take 3 green TH11 / 0 beads -> 4 or 6mm bead -> black TH11 / 0 bead and pass with the same thread through the added beads.
Step 8
First currant added.
Step 9
We pass one bead down along our chain and again take 3 (or 4) green TH11 / 0 beads -> 4 or 6mm bead -> black TH11 / 0 bead. And again we pass the thread itself through the added beads.
Step 10
Repeat the manoeuvre until you reach a single TH11 / 0 bead.
Step 11
We go through this single bead, take the same sequence of beads and go through the single bead on the other side.
Step 12
Now we repeat the addition of the clusters - this time going up.
Step 13
When we have made all the twigs, we secure and hide the threads.
Step 14
We mount the jump ring on the TH8 / 0 bead, and the earwire on the jump ring.
Step 15
And the first earring is ready
Step 16
Quickly take the second one, put it on your ears, take photos and show it on our group!
Step 17
Do you know that from such clusters we can make not only earrings? I made bunches as elements of a necklace. To this I added other fruits, flowers and dragonflies (you can find the dragonfly tutorial HERE). And this is how a beautiful, holiday necklace was created - maybe it will serve as an inspiration
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