How to Knit Earrings
Large earrings can make a fashion statement, but unfortunately, they can also take a toll on your ears. Avoid the weight of heavy earrings by knitting a pair of fashion-forward dangle earrings for yourself instead. You only need basic knitting skills to make a lightweight, bejeweled pair of hand-knit earrings.
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Things You'll Need
- Crochet cotton thread, size U.S. 3 or 10
- 20 small beads
- Beading needle
- Knitting needles, size U.S. 1
- Scissors
- Embroidery needle
- Hook earring findings
Instructions
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Thread the end of a ball of crochet cotton thread onto a beading needle. Use the needle to string 20 small, lightweight beads onto the thread.
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Remove the beading needle, and pull on the end of the crochet thread so the beads rest toward the base of the ball.
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Use the crochet thread to cast on four stitches. Make a slipknot on your knitting needle with the thread. Bring the thread end that is attached to the ball up and around to make a loop, then twist this loop and insert the needle through it. Repeat this two more times for a total of four stitches, counting the slipknot.
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Knit one row. Insert your right needle into the far right stitch on the left needle, from back to front. Bring the thread up and over the right needle, and draw it through the stitch to make one knit stitch; drop the original stitch from the left needle as you do so. Repeat this across the row.
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Turn your right needle around, and put it into your left hand. Pull up one bead from the base of the thread so it is flush with the left needle. Knit your first stitch, trapping this bead inside the stitch. Repeat this across the row.
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Turn your work, and knit one row without beads, as in Step 4.
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Repeat Steps 5 and 6 a total of four more times so you have five beaded rows with a regular row in between each one.
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Bind off all of your stitches by knitting two stitches normally. Slide the right-side stitch up and over the left stitch, and drop it off the needle. Knit another stitch, then drop the right over the left; repeat across the row until you have one stitch remaining.
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Cut the working thread with scissors, leaving a 4-inch tail. Pull this tail through the last stitch tightly to secure it, then thread the tail onto an embroidery needle and weave it in and out of the body of the earring to hide it. Repeat this with the other tail.
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Attach a hook earring finding to one short edge of the earring to hang it. Repeat Steps 1 through 10 to make a second earring.
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Tips & Warnings
Crystal beads or seed beads work best for earrings because they add sparkle without bulk.
Try knitting with jewelry wire instead of crochet thread for metallic earrings.
References
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