Beautiful accessories and costume jewelery are an integral part of the thoughtful and stylish female image. Original beaded earrings are a win-win option that will perfectly complement your style and help you express your personality. If you do not buy ready-made earrings, and master the weaving of earrings from beads on your own, you can create real masterpieces, and your ears will be grateful to you for such a refined stylish decoration.
Why is it worth to weave the earrings from beads?
In general, such a hobby, like needlework, is a truly feminine occupation. If you master the technique of beading, who knows, maybe your hobby will eventually turn into a business - after all, things and accessories hand made today are at the height of popularity. However, we will not run ahead. To begin with, let's find out why the bead earrings with their own hands are a real hit of the season.
First of all, this is due to the budgetary nature of this decoration - unlike expensive designer or gold earrings, simple earrings from beads will cost you several times cheaper. All you need is a bead to your taste, fishing line and foundation. That's all the costs!
Factor number two - now in fashion is not something that is produced massively, but what can be purchased in limited quantities. Earrings from beads with their own hands - it's even exclusive, because a similar thing that exactly repeats the braided earrings you will not find anywhere in the world. It is the exclusivity of products and relative cheapness that makes the original bead earrings the most popular summer accessory. Among other things, earrings from beads and beads are suitable for any style of clothing - they can be worn as with everyday things, and with cocktail, evening dresses. All these factors unequivocally speak in favor of weaving earrings yourself.
How to weave earrings from beads?
So, how to weave earrings from beads? There are several ways:
- You can embroider beads on fabrics;
- woven with a special thin wire;
- make, using a string or line.
The most important thing is to listen to your imagination, because it is the main help in such a thing as weaving earrings from beads. In addition, it is very important to have patience, because the creation of earrings from beads takes a lot of time, especially for beginners.
So, to weave long earrings from beads, you will need:
- directly beads;
- tweezers;
- thread and needle, fishing line, piece of cloth and wire (depending on what kind of beadwork you chose).
If you want to embroider a pattern with beads on the fabric, and then turn the resulting art into earrings, you must first make a sketch - a drawing, on the contours of which you will sew beads. In case you have chosen a different method, you will need a special scheme, by which you can weave the earrings (several schemes are available in this article).
Original earrings from beads can be any shape and size, match the color of your wardrobe or, on the contrary, contrast with it. In any case, if you have a good taste and a wild fantasy - for sure you will be able to weave incredibly beautiful earrings from beads on the first try.
Pineapples in the ears
Lovers of jewelry made of beads offer to weave themselves unusual, bright, earrings in the form of pineapples. This will require: opaque yellow, transparent brown, dark and light green beads, 0.2 mm rope, 1.4 m long, needle, metal accessories for earrings and a little patience.
Follow the directions - and it will work out!
- On the line we string 13 brown beads and fasten them to the ring.
- 6 yellow beads strung in a spiral. You should get this second row.
- Further, according to the same scheme, we string another 13 beads of brown color so that a tube of this kind is produced:
- The earring will have 12 spiral rows, namely: 1 - the initial ring of 13 brown beads; 2 - 6 yellow; 3-4 -13 brown; 5 - 6 yellow; 6-7 -13 brown; 8 - 6 yellow; 9-10 - 13 brown; 11 - 6 yellow; the last 12 rows are 6 brown. The alternation of yellow and brown beads is your lower part of pineapple.
- Now string 4 brown beads and pass the needle into the bead at the opposite end of the tube.
- We repeat the whole "operation" again, but we pass the needle not in the same, but in the adjacent bead. Thus, closing the hole of the tube, the lines must form the bottom.
- Next, sew the 2 rows together so as to close the hole of the tube.
- Without cutting the line, sew the second edge. Pineapple is ready.
- We begin to weave 9 leaves. To do this, we use beads of green hues.
- We string 11 beads on the line. In 10 of them we pass the needle back. 11 beads - the holder of the row, the needle is only skipped into it.
- The last bead will be a metal shackle earring, holding a row of one sheet.
- Fixing rows of leaves for fishing line or brown beads, plaiting leaflets with so many beads: light green - 11, 8, 6; dark green - 14 (with a bow), 12, 17, 12, 7, 7.
- In the same sequence, the second earring is worn. A couple of sweet pineapple ready!