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Hi. Today I'm gonna show you how to make these Chain Tassel Earring with
black finished components by TierraCast.
Now since I already have one earring made
I'm just going to show you the supplies that you need
to make the other earring.
Beginning with
this is twenty gauge black finished artistic craft wire
and I already have a piece cut.
It's about four inches long.
And I've got some small spacer beads
from TierraCast
in the black finish and also
in the black finish a bead cone and some black finished
ear wire.
And last but not least the chain. You're going to need approximately 2 feet, that's one foot per earring.
And what you need to do with this chain is cut it into eight segments per earring
that are one and a half inches
long each.
So I already have one segment cut.
This is how I'm going to measure the other segments. By the way this is twenty eight links long.
So it's just under an inch and a half.
So I have my first
segment threaded on my wire.
I'm just going to thread the rest of my chain
on to the wire and line them up.
Cut it exactly where
I need to cut
using my flush cutters.
So now I have two
segments that are exactly the same length.
I'm going to make eight of those.
I'm going to go ahead and do that really quickly.
Now that I have all eight of my segments cut
exactly the same length, I can set them aside and I'm going to make
a wrapped wire loop
towards one end of the wire.
It's going to be a generous size too because you have to accomandate
all of those pieces of wire. So about half way down your round nose pliers.
This is how I make my wrapped wire loops. I know some people
use two pairs of pliers. I just use my fingers.
So now that I have the beginning of the wrapped wire loop, I'm going I'm going to open it slightly.
I'm going to thread on my chain segments.
Now that I have all of my chain segments on the beginning
of my wire loop,
I can complete that wrapped wire loop.
I'm going to grab it right above the chain as best I can. And give it a couple of wraps around itself.
Two should be good. I will trim off the excess
wire right there.
And give that tail a good squeeze.
Now I'm ready to insert my tassel
into the bead cone.
Now that I have the chain tassels in the bead cone, I can thread on one of my spacer beads.
I'm going to push down as much as I can to get the wire in the bead cone as far it could go.
Now I just want to make a simple loop right about here.
So I'm going to take my chain nose pliers
and I will fold
the wire
at an ninety degree angle
to the bead cone.
And I'm going to cut it off about a half an inch maybe a little less.
I'm going to take my round nose pliers
and make a simple loop like so.
THe only thing left to do
at this point is to either open
this simple loop or the loop at the bottom
of your earring hook. You going to be doing that
the same way
that you would open
a jump ring.
Once it's open, you thread it through
the other loop
and twist it shut
again.
And there you have it.
That's how you make this lovely pair of Chain Tassel Earrings.
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