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Hi! This is Megan with Beadaholique.com and
I'm going to show you how to make these
bead woven and bugle and seed bead earrings
and they have brick stitch
at the top and some pretty dangly
fringe hanging down. This is a really classic native american design
but if you
change up the colors and the patterns
you can make them look really pretty contemporary
so you can see here there's
these two different color palettes have a very different finished look to
them so if you play around with them you can
make them look kind of whatever style you want to
what you're gonna need for this is I'm using
bugle beads
and two different colors of seed beads, so these are all tohos
and this is a size 11/0
these are the
largest size, the longest size bugles that we have
here at beadaholique.com
you need some
nylon beading thread. Now usually for bead weaving I suggest using a braided thread
but whenever you're going to have dangle
beads
it's better to use an nylon thread like KO or Nymo
because it's going to be more fluid and they're gonna hang straight
then you're going to need a
four milliliter jump ring and an earring hook
and then I'm also using a size twelve beading needle
and you're going to need
two pliers
and scissors
so the first thing
to do is
take as long as a length of beading thread as you're comfortable working with
if you can get it long enough you probably don't need to tie off and add any
thread
if you're only comfortable working with a shorter amount at a time
then you may need to do that and we do have a video showing you how to tie off and add
new thread
if you're not familiar with it
start
with this
foundation row of bugle beads you can see here on both
earrings here
and this is just going to be ladder stitch and we do also have a ladder stitch
on how to do that. I'll show you how to it but
you are confused about it then you can
check out the video first
go ahead and put two bugle beads on your needle
and pull it
down to
a few inches from the end of your thread. Leave yourself
about a six inch tail
and then you're going to
go back through
your first bugle bead the same direction that you went through before
pull that
so they go parallel to each other, be careful when you're working with these
bugle beads
that you don't pull super tight
because
the edges on them
can actually cut through your thread
pull it snug but I don't really yank on it too hard
and you're going to come
back through
the next bugle bead, you should have
the tail of your thread
next to where your new thread is coming out the next bead over
going to pick up another bugle bead
separate so you can see better
take
your thread with your bugle bead
bring your needle
back up
the same direction through the last
bugle bead on your foundation row
and then
down through the new one you just added
and pick up another bead
down through the last
bead the same way
as you did before
and then up through
the new bead
pick up a bead
go up through the last one
and down through the new bead
your earrings are going to be as wide
as this foundation row
so you can
make it narrower or wider
that's going to be
the width of your earring
so earrings that I'm making have nine bugle beads in the foundation row
if you want to
have
an angled
symmetrical design like I have here you wanna make sure you use a odd number
so that your
point has a center point
one more
this is going to be your foundation row
nine beads across, now you're going to do the top
of the earring
and I'm using
these crystal clear
seed beads
and these
pretty
galvanized silver color beads
and
I'm using
the crystal always right next to the black
you can see I have
everywhere right here I have crystal next to blacks
the first
row I'm gonna do up hereI'm going to use the crystal
to make that space between there
so the top part of this is going to be brick stitch. If you're not familiar with
brick stitch you can
watch a video on how to do that
I will also give you a quick refresher here
pick up
two beads
and then you're going to skip the first thread bridge
you're going to bring your needle through
underneath the second
thread bridge
bring your needle
back up
through the last seed bead
for the first stitches here you going to need to
level it out and make it nice and
straight, you can go back through the
end bead
and then back up
that next bead there
and you can see when you
pull that tight it
straighten it out
makes them sit flat
continue to stitch across. You need to pick up
one bead
go underneath the thread bridge
bring your needle down
back up through the beads
pull that down
pick up a bead
go in the the next thread bridge
go back up through the bead
and continue across
in that same way
you're going to go all the way across and put a bead on top of
each one of thread bridges there
and brick stitch
naturally decreases by one bead every row
so we're just going to go ahead and
go with that, we're not going to
do anything to change and we're gonna get this natural point
so the rest of the tip I'm going to do it in silver
and again when you do your first
stitch in the row, you need to pick up two beads
skip the first thread bridge
come up through
that bead
On this first stitch go down
through the bead next to it
and again back up through the bead
and from there you'll just do
one bead
continue that
all the way up until
you finish your last row which has two beads in it
so once you have the last row done
two beads
you grab one more bead
go back down
through that next seed bead
back up
and we want this one to sit
side ways instead of up and down
we're going to use that to attach the jump ring
go ahead and
reinforce it
just go through those three beads one more time
pull that nice and tight
go through
the top bead
then go
down
the whole side
through this
edge around here
go ahead and go down through
that end bugle beads
we're ready to do our
fringe
the way we're going to do this
we're gonna go ahead and just string
each piece of fringe
you go back
skip the last bead go back up
through the bugle and back down
to get this nice
chevron pattern here
what I've done is every
first
section of silver beads
I increased one as I went down, so it starts with one on the end and the middle
one has five
go ahead and grab
a crystal bead
and then for this row just one silver bead
and a crystal
and then we're going to put in
a bugle bead
and I'm getting all this shape from just changing the top section here
these sections are
all five beads in the middle
one crystal bead and five silver beads
and then another crystal bead
and then another bugle bead
one more
set at the bottom
one crystal bead
five silver beads
and another crystal bead
so that's going to be that
little piece of fringe here
skip the last
crystal bead
and go back up
through
all the rest of these beads make sure you don't miss one
make sure your needle is really going through
each beads
you're going to go ahead and go through
all the beads in that
extra piece of fringe we just added there
you're going to hold the bottom
of these beads
and go ahead and pull that so that there's no slack so you don't see any
thread here
that you don't want to pull it too tight because it's going to be stiff and not going to move
nicely
take your needle
go
back up
through that bugle bead
and then right back down through the next one
so this time
as we move across
pick up one crystal bead
and two silver beads
and another crystal bead
a bugle bead
then
one crystal
five silver
a crystal bead
and other crystal bead
another set at the bottom
so one crystal
five silver
crystal bead
skip the last bead
go back up
through the rest making sure you get
your needle through every bead
you're not usually going to come all the way back up
through all of them at one go so go ahead and
go through as far as
you can and then
go back in
you wanna make sure that you don't get
the thread all tangled up in there and on the other side pieces of fringe
pull on the end or hold on to the end and pull the top until the slack is gone
back up through that bugle bead
right back down
the next one
continue all the way across
add one more silver bead
in this top row here into the center one you'll have five silver beads
starting
after in the
sixth one here
you're going to decrease each one each time so that it comes to a nice
gradual point
go ahead and do the same thing all the way across
every time you'll string your beads, skip the last one, go back up
just like that
so once you've added in all of your tassels
you're gonna come straight back up
out through that top bugle bead
tie off and weave in both of your thread. Once you have all your ends all tied in
attach your earring hook
so go ahead and
use a jump ring. Open up the hook. So if it's
open a little bit go ahead and close it up
open your jump ring
and you will usually have a front and a back. You see which side had
all of your threads looping around at the top when you are doing your fringe
use the front side that doesn't have all that on it whichever side looks neater
you're going to put the jump ring
right through that top bead
then you're going to take your earring hook
close up your jump ring
and you're all done. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!