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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you
how to make these
beading wire and Katiedids earrings
and this specific earring that I'm going to make is
the Mojito earrings in our free beading projects page and that'll give you all
the
materials and step-by-step instructions as well
and so what you're going to need are
some Katiedids and I have here
a two-hole curved silver plated Katiedid
and then I have some fine white Soft flex beading wire
it does show here and I like that white color with my
bead choice there. So you can choose a color that matches your beads
It comes in a lot of colors
it's kind of a fun option and then I have some 4mm
Miyuki cube beads and that's what I'm using
to fill in the Katiedid and then to finish my beading wire
I have some crimps with a loop and I have an earring hook and a jump ring
the first thing I'm gonna do
is measure a piece of
beading wire, three and a half inches long
I'm gonna actually go ahead and crimp one of my loops
onto the end of the wire. Now when you're using a crimp with a loop
you want to make sure that your only crimping the
end that's further away from the loop and there is going to be
a little bit of the crimp tube left over that you're not crimping
don't try to do the whole thing because otherwise
it will a lot of times the loop will come loose.
Crimp the loop and insert
one end of your beading wire end and crimp down
and complete the crimp. We do have a whole video on using crimp beads hand tubes and if
you're not familiar and you see a little bit more
and I'm going to take
my beading wire, the loose end and put it through
one of the holes on the end of the Katiedid
and then
I've already experimented and seen that I can fill
7 of these beads into the Katiedid and I just placed them in before I had my wire to see
how many I was going to use
so I'm just going to string
seven of these randomly
onto my wire
and I'm going to take the other end
at the end of the wire put it through the hole
on other end of the Katiedid. Just like that.
make sure that your beads sit nice in there
now I'm going to attach the crimp to the other end of the wire
and I do find with these, it's easier for me
personally if I line the crimp up in the
pliers and then put the wire instead of trying to it get them lined up
correctly with the wire in there
and I want to make sure that the
folded side of my crimp is to the back
of the earring. Crimp
crimp the other direction. Now you should have this little
U shape. You'll need a couple of
chain nose pliers. I have a chain nose and a round you can just use whatever
two pairs of pliers you like to use, open up the jump rings
I'm going to catch both
loops on the ends of your crimps
you're going to catch the loop on your earring hook
and close the jump ring back up
and that's it. There's a really quick and simple to make.
and they're great for summer in this color scheme or you could do a totally
different color scheme and make them
really suited for any occasion.
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