How to Bead Cascade Earrings
Beads enhance all kinds of craft projects. Making jewelry is fashionable and a rewarding craft project. Cascade earrings with beads can become a unique and unconventional fashion statement. Not all beads are plastic and colored. Read on to learn how to bead cascade earrings.
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Things You'll Need
- 20 flat shell disks
- 2 earring loops
- Beads 1/8-inch in diameter
- 20 eye pins
Instructions
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Learn how to loop wire and you have learned how to bead. This takes practice.
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Count out an equal number of shells about ΒΌ-inch in diameter. Know that 20 shells will produce two cascade earrings.
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Thread the bead onto the eye pin and then create a loop in the wire.
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Take a pair of needle nose pliers and create a loop in the wire as you have practiced.
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Insert another bead and eye pin before you complete the loop of the first bead. You can close the first loop after the second step is completed.
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Systematize your technique. Each loop should be the same size, the shells should hang straight and the eye pin wire should not be visible.
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Tie each loop tight. Enclose the last bead and eye pin with the last loop. The bead cascade earrings are ready to wear.
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Tips & Warnings
Practice how to make a loop in the wire-this will make the earrings look perfectly symmetrical.
Do not leave sharp edges on any of the wire ends or eye pins.
