When we first got into jewellery making the web wasn't as full as it is now with helpful resources for craft lovers, and we ended up buying a rather expensive kit with a DVD.
The kit was very informative and was a great starter set, but now everyone has to watch their pennies a bit more, it would be far too much of a luxury.
So, here at Two Bird's Craft we thought we'd start making our own jewellery tutorials!
We will start you at the very beginning for those of you with no previous experience.
Today's jewellery tutorial is for a pair of simple earrings, at the bottom of the page we will list some links for you to find some supplies if you need them.
Earrings are one of the first things we made and are definitely the easiest and quickest item of jewellery to make, so let's start:
To make the earrings you will need:
Two headpins in the metal of your choice
Two earring hooks.
Beads or charms to make your earrings pretty!
Pliers - round and flat nosed and
Wire cutters.
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| Pliers and wire cutters are essential kit! |
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| Thread your bead selection |
Step 1: Thread your beads onto your headpin
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| Cut the headpin leaving 1cm space |
Step 2: With your wire cutters, cut the headpin one 1cm away from your top bead
Step3: Next, get your round nosed pliers and grab the headpin a mm or two above your top bead and bend the wire 90 degrees.
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| Use the round nosed pliers |
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| Bend 90 Degrees at top of beads |
Step 4: Still using your round nosed pliers, use the fattest bit of the plier you can whilst stilling getting a grip on the wire and from the top twist the wire into a loop.
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| Make a loop |
Step 5: Now, get your earring hook and your flat and round nosed pliers.
Hold the small hook on your earring hook with your flat pliers and then open it with the round nosed ones. Then hook your headpin by the loop you created onto your earring hook. Now you just need to close the hook the same way you opened it and...voila, an earring!
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| Connect to your earring hook |
Now you need to do that all again to make a pair!
You can you any amount of beads and charms as you like, but we recommend putting a small bead or a sead bead at the bottom of your headpin (especially if they are flat bottomed ones), so that any big beads don't fall straight off! If you're feeling adventurous, you might even want to hook a few headpins full of beads onto your earring hooks!
We've been experimenting with mixing crochet and jewellery making together, here's one of our teeny crochet flowers looped onto the earring hook - what do you think?
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| Here's one we made earlier! |
We hope everything in the above tutorial makes sense and you all enjoy making your earrings! If you need any help or think any pictures/instructions need improving then please get in touch!
As promised, here are some suggested websites for supplies:
Good sellers on eBay:
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