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Have you ever seen one of these filigree pieces in the beading section of the
craft store or at a bead show and wondered what to do with them? Well we love using them
in all kinds of jewelry pieces and today we're going to show you how to turn them
into a beautiful pair of earrings. Super easy! The first thing we're going to do
is take a head pin and we're gonna feed on a couple of crystal beads. This is a
six millimeter a faceted crystal bead. It's got a pretty AB finish. We just like
the way it looks with this aged copper. We're gonna add a crystal bicone on top.
And we chose a clear crystal just because we thought it looked pretty with
this AB finish of this the green here. And now we're gonna make a partial
wrapped loop to connect it to our filigree piece. And to do that we've got
round-nose pliers. We're gonna grasp the wire of the head pin right above that
bicone bead make a 90-degree bend, like that. We're going to reposition the
pliers to the top of that bend and pull the wire around the top jaw of our
pliers. We're going to reposition the pliers to the bottom jaw and pull the
wire around to make a loop. So there's our loop. But we're not going to close it
yet. We're gonna feed it through one of the loops in our square filigree here
and now we're gonna wrap our loop. And to do that we're going to use our round-
nose pliers again and we're just going to grasp across the loop like that, then
pull the tail around the neck of our head pin twice. Just like that. And
then we'll trim our wire. And we're using flush cutters. Flush cutters are flat on
one side and angled at the other side. We're going to use the flush side
against the project and that way we will get a little pokey end that sticks out.
And there is our little dangle on our earring and if you
end up with a little bit of a tail sticking out, if you don't get too close
of a cut, you can always use a pair of chain nose pliers, which are the pliers
that are flat on the inside, and just press the end down. Or you could actually
use a nail file and file it. That's another little trick. Here we go now to
turn this into an earring, we've got a little earring wire here that's the same
metal finish. We're going to use our round-nose pliers. You could use your
chain-nose pliers for this too. And we're just going to open the loop that's on
the earring just by bending it out like that. And then we're going to slide our
earring onto our earring wire just like that. And then we're going to close the
loop back with our round nose pliers just like that. And there's our first
earring. So pretty! We'll just do that again real quick so
you can see it again. We've got our head pin. We'll feed on our focal bead,
followed by our bicone bead like that. Now we're going to make a wrapped loop.
So I'm going to use the round-nose pliers to grasp the wire
above that bicone bead, bend 90 degrees, reposition the pliers, wrap around the
top jaw to make a partial loop, reposition the pliers to the bottom jaw,
and finish the loop. There's our loop. But before we wrap our loop, we're going to
slide on, slide it on to our filigree, put that into our filigree like that. And now
we're going to wrap that loop by grasping across the loop with our round
nose pliers and then wrapping the tail around the neck twice. And we're using
square filigrees, but you could use a round filigree or an oval filigree. Just
as long as you've got a little hole in the top and the bottom that you can feed
your head pin of your dangle and your earring wire through.
Now we're going to trim. And there's our dangle. And now we just need to attach
our earring wire. Open up our loop on our earring wire and then we're going to
slide on our filigree and then close the loop with our round-nose pliers. There's
our beautiful pair of filigree crystal earrings!