Fiesta Chandelier Earring TUTORIAL

Fiesta Chandelier Earrings

by Erin Siegel 
for Ornamentea.com

These red hot earrings are the perfect accessory for sizzling Summer style!

Ingredients

22 glass 6mm rounds

2 hammered brass 33mm metalrings

2 brass head pins

2 brass ear wires

56” of walnut 4ply Irishwaxed linen cord

Tools:

Round nose pliers

Chain nose pliers

Scissors

Instructions:

1: Convert the headpins into eyepins by trimming off the heads and creating a loop at one end as shown.

2: String one 6mm glass round; form a simple loop. Set aside. Cut the cord in half. Set one aside.

3: Make a 3” fold at one end of the cord. Form a larks head knot around the brass ring. 

4: Using the long end of cord, form two half-hitch knots around the ring.

5: Use the short end of cord to string one 6mm glass bead and form an overhand knot ¾” from the previous larks head knot. Trim end to 1/8”.Using the long end of cord, string a bead and form an overhand knot ½” from the last half-hitch knot. Trim end. Repeat steps 3-5 to complete another beaded section next to the first. 

6: Repeat step 3. Use the short end to string a bead and form an overhand knot ¾” from the larks head knot. Use the long end to string a bead and form an overhand knot 1 ¼” from the larks head knot. Trim ends.

7: Repeat step 3. Use the short end to string a bead and form an overhand knot ½” from the previous larks head knot. Use the long end to form two half-hitch knots around the brass ring. String a bead and form an overhand knot ¾” from the last half-hitch knot. Trim ends. Repeat entire step to complete another beaded section next to the last one.

8: Attach the bead link made in step one to the brass ring. Attach an ear wire to the bead link.

9: Repeat steps 1-7 to complete the second earring.