Starlet Earrings Tutorial

 

You will need:
A small quantity of size 11 seed beads in colours A, B, C and D
A small quantity of size 15 seed beads in colour D
16 4mm Czech faceted crystals
A size 10 or 12 beading needle
Fireline or other braided beading thread
A pair of ear wires
2 4mm jump rings
Long nose or flat nose pliers

 

Unless otherwise stated, use size 11 seed beads throughout. 

 

Thread your needle with at least ¾ of a metre of thread. Pick up 4 A beads and sew through them all again, plus one more, to create a circle. Leave a tail of about 8". Pick up 1 B bead and sew through the next bead in the circle...

Repeat a further 3 times. Step up at the end of this round by sewing through the first bead you added ready to start the next round...

Pick up 1 C bead, 1 D bead and 1 C bead and sew through the bead that your thread is coming out of, in the same direction...

This will create a little circle. Pick up 1 C bead and sew through the next bead...

Repeat the above two steps another 3 times so that you have a circle of beads at each corner with a single bead between each. At the end of this round, sew up through the right-hand bead on the first circle of beads you added ready, for the next round...

 

 

 

Pick up 1 C bead and sew through the top bead on the circle...

Pick up 1 C bead and sew down through the bead on the left-hand side of the circle...

Sew through the 2 adjacent seed beads as in the photo below...

Repeat another 3 times to add a C bead either side of the remaining colour D beads. Step up through the first C bead you added on this row to be ready for the next round.

 

Pick up 1 4mm crystal and 1 D bead. Sew back through the crystal and into the adjacent C bead...

Pick up 1 crystal and sew through the C bead on the opposite corner...

Repeat the 2 steps above a further 3 times to complete the row, replacing one of the D beads with a hanging loop as follows: Pick up 6 size 15 D beads and sew back through the first size 15 bead, the crystal and into the adjacent C bead...

 

Add the remaining crystal. Weave both the working and tail threads into the beadwork, making one or two half-hitch knots as you go. Trim the threads close to the beadwork.

 

Attach the finished Starlet to an ear wire with one of the jump rings. Repeat to make the second earring.

© Liz Reed for OTTBS 2015
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