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.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 20 flat shell disks
• 2 earring loops
• Beads 1/8-inch in diameter
• 20 eye pins

1. Learn how to loop wire and you have learned how to bead. This takes practice.

2. Count out an equal number of shells about ¼-inch in diameter. Know that 20 shells will produce two cascade earrings.

3. Thread the bead onto the eye pin and then create a loop in the wire.

4. Take a pair of needle nose pliers and create a loop in the wire as you have practiced.

5. 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.

6. Systematize your technique. Each loop should be the same size, the shells should hang straight and the eye pin wire should not be visible.

7. Tie each loop tight. Enclose the last bead and eye pin with the last loop. The bead cascade earrings are ready to wear.

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.