How to Make Picot Earrings
Making your own jewelry not only allows you to flex your creative muscles but gives you the freedom to create pieces that showcase your favorite colors and complement your skin tone. Picot earrings refer to small beaded earrings that create a soft diamond shape, evocative of the type of lace from which they get their name. They're an appropriate project for beginning jewelry makers or anyone who likes to make understated, feminine pieces and make for gifts that will become keepsakes forever.
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Things You'll Need
- 10 large beads
- 4 smaller clover-shaped beads
- Jewelry thread
- Scissors
- 2 jump rings
- Needle nose pliers
- 2 jewelry hook earwires
- 2 headpins
Instructions
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Select four beads of your desired shape and size for each earring. The traditional choice is to use 5mm sized pearls but you can use any size you like.
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Select four clover-shaped beads that are a third of the size as the beads you selected in Step 1.
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String your eight beads on a piece of jewelry thread, starting with a clover shaped bead. Alternative between your large and small beads.
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Pull the two sides of your jewelry thread together and make a double knot, cutting off the excess jewelry thread with a pair of scissors.
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Open a small silver jump ring with your needle nose pliers. Loop it through the hole of one of your clover beads. This will be the top of your earring.
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Thread the loop at the bottom of your hook earwire through the opened silver jump ring. Close both with your needle nose pliers.
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Place an extra large bead onto a head pin. Bend the head pin so that it's at 90 degrees. Cut off the excess metal 1/4 inch from the bead.
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Loop the end of the headpin into a small, loose ring shape and thread it through the hole in your lower clover shaped bead. Tighten the loop with your needle nose pliers.
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