Jewelry Making: How to Make Matching Earrings

Video Transcript

"Hi! Kathleen Wright from Kathleen Wright Jewelry, New York City, Miami. Getting back to the earrings, I put on this one earring here that all I did was I put the beads right onto the wire and it doesn’t move very much, it’s a good medium size length earring, if you want medium size that don’t dangle too much I would suggest that. This is another one that I racked, this has two beads that’s hanging off a post not super long, not as long as these. I have a couple of options here, if you’re doing a necklace that’s really busy that has a lot going on like a lot of charms like this piece that I’m going to give you an example, if I had this piece on and I wanted to make a matching earring or I designed this piece and I said I wanted a matching earring, you definitely don’t want to make an earring like this, it’s just too much. I would suggest a shorter earring made with either one bead or a second bead like this one is with the similar colors of the necklace that you just made. "