Hi! This Julie with Beadaholique.com and I'm going to show you how to make this earring and
I wanted to create a project that used to wire in a fun way that wasn't too
complicated. It'll be an easy introduction to wire if you're not too familiar with
working with it
but a really pretty design will result. You're going to need
some wire. For this particular project I've chosen this silver plated fancy
square german style wire. It has a really pretty texture design to it already
so the wire itself is gonna add a lot to the design
and then I have a coin shaped Purple Crazy Lace Agate bead. It's got a hole
through the middle
and a sliver plated earring hook
In terms of the tools, you need a pair of flush cutters
a round nose pliers,
chain nose pliers and a ruler and that's it
so to make this project take your wire
cut seven-and-a-half inches
if you want your spirals to be a little larger
cut a little more, if you want it to be a little smaller cut as much as you want
just going to
make that snip
now we're gonna go ahead and thread the wire
through the hole in the bead
scoot it down to about the midway point
doesn't have to be exactly perfect but you want it pretty much in the middle
once you've done that, take
one of the wires
and fold it
over the top arch of your bead
and then do the the same thing with the other one
now where they criss cross in the middle
you're going to twist
one twist
now we need to create our spiral
to do that
go ahead
and using your round nose pliers
we're gonna grab the tip of the wire
you're going to make a loop
continue
making a spiral
just like so
grab it
with you chain nose and flatten it out if it got a little bit wonky
now we're going to take our chain nose
just literally coil the wire
just kind of walking this
circle
along the edge of the
wire, just spiraling
do that until you can't do it anymore
and now we're gonna go ahead and do that on the
other side
switch back
to the round nose
again
make a spiral
and go a little bit beyond one full spiral
so we have a little curly q there
grab it with the chain nose
and keep spiraling
you've got your two spirals
now all we have to do is attach the hook
which is super easy. Open
the loop at the base of the hook the same way you would open a jump ring
put that
between one of our rungs
of our spiral, in the top one
we're just going to close that loop back up
we've got our really fun pair of earrings which showcases a
lovely gemstone bead and has a fun spiraled motif. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!