How To Make Cascading Pearl Earrings: Jewelry Making Tutorial

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Jewelry Making Tutorial: How To Make Cascading Pearl Earrings
by Jennifer and Kitty O'Neil
The O'Neil Sisters
Running With Sisters

Transcript (abridged)
To make the earrings you'll need some loopy chain. This is chain has big 1/2" loops in silver. And you'll need 6 headpins. You'll need 6 pearls and we've got two of each color. We've got this blue color. We've got a green color and a copper color. And the pearls are 6mm across. And you'll need two earring wires. These are also silver. For tools, we have chain-nose pliers, wire cutters, and round-nose pliers.

First you want to cut your chain. So you have three links like this. To cut the chain, we're going to count out our three links and then cut through the fourth link to separate it from the chain. We can put that on our earring wire.

That's kind of a cute earring already, but we're gonna make some dangles for it. To do that we're going to take a headpin. And we're going to do the bottom dangle first. I've got the copper pearl on the headpin and I'm going to make a wrapped loop in the top of that wire. I'm using my round-nose pliers. I pinch the headpin wire just above the pearl and bend that wire 90 degrees toward me. Then I take the round-nose pliers and move them to the top part of that bend. Now I bend the wire over in the opposite direction. I reposition the pliers, putting the bottom jaw in that loop, and I bring that wire around the bottom jaw to make that little loop. Before we wrap it, we want to put it onto our links in our earring. Attach it to the middle link of our chain. I can put it anywhere on that middle link. I'm just going to slide it up to the link and then I just sort of nestled the loop around that ring. Now I can wrap that loop. I use my round-nose pliers to grasp across the loop that I just made. I'm bring that tail around two times. That secures that loop. And then I want to cut the end of that wire trim it with my wire cutters.

Now we're going to make the next one which is the blue one. So to do that, I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna take my headpin and I'm going to slide on the pearl and I'm gonna make a wrapped loop. I grasp the headpin just above the pearl, bend the wire 90 degrees, reposition to the top, bend it around the top jaw, reposition so the bottom jaw is in the loop, and finish pulling that wire around to make that loop. It gets attached to the one above it. So I put it anywhere on that top link in the chain. Then I pull that tail around two times. And reach in there with my wire cutters and clip that end.

The last pearl is gonna hang from the earring wire itself. So to do that I'm just gonna put the last pearl, the green one, onto the headpin and then I'm gonna use my round-nose pliers and I'm gonna pinch it right above the pearl, like I did before. Make a 90-degree bend, make a loop over the top. Reposition the pliers into the bottom of the loop, bottom jaw, and then with this one, we're actually going to attach it to the earring wire. I can go ahead and close the wraps. And now I can trim the headpin wire with my wire cutters. Then to attach this last pearl I'm come up over the back of the earring wire, slide that on, bring it down into the earring wire loop and then use my pliers, I can close that up. Now that top pearl is hanging in the middle of the top link, even though it's attached to the earring wire. And that is how you make these fun Cascading Pearl Earrings.

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Jennifer & Kitty

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