How to Make Dangle Hoop Earrings

Dangle hoop earrings are both attractive and surprisingly simple to make. Even a beginning jewelry maker can have almost instant success creating beautiful dangle hoop earrings in only a matter of minutes. Learn how to make dangle hoop earrings and see the lovely earrings that you can make with only a few materials and necessary tools. Once you see what you can make you may never buy ready-made earrings again.

Things You'll Need

• 2 earring hoops
• 2 earring wires
• Beads (whatever color and size desired)
• 2 head pins
• Chain nose pliers
• Round nose pliers
• Wire cutters

Instructions

1. Place several beads onto one head pin to create a "dangle" of beads. Typically, a larger bead would be placed onto the head pin first and then you would follow the larger bead with several smaller beads. Experiment until you have a dangle of beads that you like.

2. Place the chain nose pliers immediately above the last bead on the head pin and bend the head pin to approximately an 80 degree angle.

3. Position the round nose pliers as close to the bend as possible and wrap the tail of the head pin around the round nose of the pliers to create a loop.

4. Hold the loop with the chain nose pliers and pull the tail of the head pin around the base of the loop to create a wrapped wire under the loop. Wrap the head pin tail several times tightly.

5. Clip any excess head pin wire after wrapping.

6. Repeat Steps 1 through 5 to create another identical head pin dangle.

7. Slide two beads onto one earring hoop.

8. Slide a head pin dangle onto the earring hoop.

9. Slide two more beads onto the earring hoop.

10. Attach the eye of the earring hoop onto the loop of an earring wire to finish one earring.

11. Repeat Steps 7 through 10 to make a second identical earring.

Resources

• Earring Hoops