These pretty crystal earrings were designed by Lynne and are super quick and easy to whip up, they make a lovely little gift or treat for yourself! They’re also a great place to get started if you’re new to jewellery making.
You’ll need the following (just scroll down to add everything you need to your shopping cart)
8 x 4mm Glass or Crystal Pearls
16 x 3mm Crystal Bicones
8 x 2x3mm Micro Spacers
a very small amount of 15/0 seed beads
Earring Findings (we’ve used lever back earrings and they’re a nice neat finish for these drop earrings
Fireline 6lb thread
Size 10 beading needle
Method
- Thread your beading needle with around 50cm of beading thread and pick up 16 beads in the folloiwng order (left to right in picture)
- Now tie a knot in your thread to bring the beads into a circle
- Now pick up 2 15/0 seed beads, an earring finding and two more 15/0 seed beads
- Now thread back through the micro spacer so that the earwire loop sits on top of the micro spacer bead like so
- Now pick up a crystal briolette bead and thread back through the micro spacer one more time
- Now knot your working thread to the tail of thread one more time and pull the knot inside a bead before trimming off your left over threads
- Repeat for the other earring
