How to Attach Beads to Handcrafted Earrings

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ella Seltzer for Expert Village. Now I'm going to show you what it should look like. Your chain with the pins attached to it, with the seed beads, after you've completed all seven. So here it is , you have one link here which is empty and then the second link has a pin on it. Then I've skipped a link and I've got the next pin. I've got seven pins across on the chain. So, the next stage, means that we will have to attach this chain to the earring component. In order to do that, we need to very small jump rings. Take the end link of the chain, we hold the jump ring with a pair of pliers and then we simply slip the chain onto the jump ring. Then once we've done that, slip the jump ring through the hole. See I've got the three holes here. Make sure its on the bottom of the earring, on either the left or the far right of the earring piece. Then we need two pairs of pliers in order to close the jump ring. Wiggle it back and forth till it's closed and we do the same thing again on the other side. We're slipping the jump ring through the hole and closing it again with two pairs of pliers like so. Okay, now its starting to look more like an earring. For the third piece, I've already taken my three beads. This time I've decided to use an Austrian crystal in the middle just to give it more of a focal affect. I've already bent the pin over just to start off the loop and then you slip it in through the middle loop. Grasp the pin, and then with your second pair of pliers wrap it around. Make your wrap loop, straighten out the pin, so it falls nicely. You don't want the loop to be bent or anything. Now we have it in the middle. "