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To make the chain tassel earrings we've got silver wire.
It's 26 gauge, which is very fine. And we've got chain. We have 18 inches of 2 millimeter wide chain.
It has a very open loop.
It's big enough, each of these links, that we can fit a piece of this 26-gauge wire through it and that's important.
We have two silver beads.
They have a little bit bigger hole than a regular
bead so that we can fit two pieces of the wire through the hole in the bead.
We have two silver earring wires.
And then for tools we're going to use round-nose pliers, and we're also going to use wire cutters and we have a ruler.
The first thing we want to do is cut the chain into one-inch pieces.
So what I'm going to do is lay the chain out on the ruler and
what I like to do is just pick a one-inch section like from the 5 to the 6 and
pull the chain straight
so that it's right at that 5 start and then the finish is right at the 6 and
it's laying all flat and then take the wire cutters
and what I like to do is reach down from the top and just cut one of those links.
That's how you cut chain into pieces.
So by breaking that one link now, I have a 1 inch piece of
chain. And
then I'm just going to do that again. And we are going to lose a little bit of length
but we lose the same amount on every piece by cutting that last link. I just reached down in there and
snap it and
pull that chain apart.
So you can see these are the little links that I've broken.
But that's exactly how you cut chain.
I've cut the chain into 16 pieces.
Each one is 1 inch long and I have 8 of them here to make one of the earrings. So
I've got my 8 little pieces of chain and I cut a piece of the 26-gauge wire.
It's about a three or four inch piece and I'm just going to bend it into a little bit of a hairpin shape.
Like that. And
then what I want to do is I want to feed the last link of each piece of chain
onto this little hairpin.
We're just going to pick up each
piece of chain and feed it on.
And this is how we're gonna make our tassel. And you could use a little bit bigger chain than this.
What you don't want to do is get chain though that's so fine or small
that you can't fit the wire through.
So as long as you can put the wire through the chain,
you can try to make a tassel with it.
If it's a very fat wire, you might want to make the tassel longer so that it stays proportional.
So here's our last link of our last piece and
they're all on our hairpin and we're going to press that hairpin together tightly.
And we're gonna feed both of these wires up through this bead.
This is why we wanted our
silver bead to have a little bit of a bigger hole than just a regular bead.
Because we want to fit two wires up through it. And we're gonna press that bead down
to where the chain pieces are. We don't want to leave a big area gap there.
So we want to really pull the bead down and pull the wires up so that the chain pieces are
right up against the bead.
I'm just going to pull those wires up one at a time.
And push them into the bead.
So now we've got our tassel with the bead on top. It looks very cute.
And now we're gonna make a wrapped loop in the top using our round-nose pliers.
Usually we make a wrapped loop with one wire, but we're gonna make it with two wires here. Do it just the same way
we always do,
pinching the wire above the bead and
making a 90-degree bend. And
then I'm going to put the pliers into the top of the bend so I can make a loop there,
so the loop goes in the other direction. I
Push it around the topjaw the pliers and then I reposition so that I can finish that loop.
My chain got in the way. And I pull that wire around. And
now I can hold the loop across
with the pliers and then wrap the neck.
Usually we do two wraps here, but I'm just going to do one because we have two wires. It would be a lot of wraps.
I'm just trimming the ends off both of those ends. And
then I've got my earring wire and I'm going to feed it through both of the both of the loops and
bring it around into the little
hook of the earring wire. And then I can use my pliers just to close that up. And
then to make the second earring, you'll just repeat the process.
And then you have a really cute pair of chain tassel earrings