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Courting Elizabeth Earrings
Project E674
Designer: Julie Bean
These intricate Victorian inspired earrings will add a soft, feminine touch to your wardrobe. A gorgeous Vintaj chandelier drop has been enhanced with lovely Miyuki Delicas and will swing beautifully from your ear.
NOTE: The earring hook used in this project has been discontinued and a slightly different hook has replaced it. The overall look of the earrings will not change much, but the hook will be very slightly larger than that shown in the photo.
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What You'll Need
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Instructions:
Don't forget to double these instructions to make your matched pair of earrings!
- To start this project, gently sand the top surface of the Vintaj natural brass alchemy chandelier drop using the Vintaj Relief Block. You want to expose some of the shiny brass surface below.
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Thread a size 12 or 13 needle with 25 inches of Fireline braided beading thread. Please watch the video on How to Bead Weave a Picot Edge Around Filigree. From what you learned in the video, bead weave a picot edge around the bottom "floral" part of your Vintaj chandelier drop using Miyuki Delicas 11/0 in galvanized matte eggplant purple. See the photo for the starting and stopping point. When you get all the way around the base, tie off your thread and incorporate it back into your bead work.
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Next, thread 15 inches of Fireline beading thread onto your needle. Bead weave a picot edge around the interior round circle filigree of your chandelier drop using the same Miyuki beads as in the last step. See photo. Tie off your thread when done and incorporate into your beadwork.
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The final decorative flourish is creating the look of a beaded bead around a Czech glass druk bead. To do this, thread 20 inches of Fireline onto your needle. String a Czech glass 6mm druk bead in opal white onto your thread and slide it down until it is 6" from the tail. Tie a surgeons knot with the tail and the part of your thread with the needle on it. Make sure the thread is snug up against the side of the bead. Pass your needle back through the druk bead, under the thread bridge you just created by tying the knot, and tie another knot, making sure to pull snug along the way. Pass your needle back through the druk bead. Now string 8 Miyuki Delicas size 11/0 in galvanized matte eggplant purple onto your thread. Pass your needle through the druk bead again and pull snug. You just created a beaded arch along the side of your druk bead. Make another 3 Miyuki bead arches against your druk bead the same way y
ou created the first
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You should now have 4 strands of beads wrapping around the outside of your druk bead. Scoot them so that 2 are on each side of the druk bead and one the sets of 2 overlaps that original thread bridge you created. Pull your needle snug so that all the beads are tight. Pass the needle under the threads of two of the strands and if it happens to be the area overlapping your thread bridge, pass under that as well. Loop around and tie a surgeons knot. Pass your needle down through the druk bead again and tie the other set of two beads strands together in the same fashion. Cut off excess thread.
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Place 1 purple Miyuki Delica, the above beaded bead, and another purple Miyuki Delica onto a brass eye pin. Create a simple wire loop (in the opposite orientation as the bottom one - see photo) after the last bead and cut off excess wire with flush cutters. It is important that the simple wire loops face opposite directions so that you earring hangs properly on your ear, otherwise it will be facing your neck instead of forward.
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Open one of the simple wire loops from the segment you created in the last step and link it to the loop at the top of your beaded chandelier drop. Close the loop. Open the other simple loop and and connect it to the loop at the base of your earring hook. Close the loop.
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All done!
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Variations
So many wonderful colors of Miyuki Delicas in size 11/0 to choose from!
When substituting in items, pay attention to sizes and styles to make sure all your pieces will fit together.
Keywords: beaded earrings, chandelier earrings, seed bead earrings, victorian earrings
Tip: Check package quantities for each component. You may have extra material to make more than one finished project, or will have leftovers for other projects. In some cases, adding on just one more package of a component may be all you need to make multiple pieces.
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You may use our designs to make items for personal use or gifts.
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