Stardust Earrings

These sparkly little earrings were published in Beads & Beyond, November 2008.

Made from lightweight hollow beads, you get the full on look without having your earlobes dragged to the ground.

You will need:

• 32 x 6mm Stardust metal beads 
• 32 Headpins 
• 2 Earring Wires 
• 2 Extender Chains, or 16 link lengths of chain 
• 32 Seed Beads 

What you do:

• Take a head pin and thread on a seed bead and a Stardust Bead.

• With Round Nose Pliers, bend the pin over into a loop close to the bead, but do not cut off. 

• Thread the pin through the last loop on your extender chain. 

• Holding your loop tight with your pliers, wind the pin around the bottom of the loop twice to wrap onto the top of the bead.

• Cut off the excess wire as close as possible to the bead.

• Tuck the wire edge in neat to the bead so you do not have any sharp ends. 

• Repeat STEP 1-6, but this time adding the wire to the second link on the chain.

• Continue until you have one bead added to every link in the chain. 

• Open the hook on an Earwire and add the top link of the chain to the loop before closing securely.

• Make a second one exactly the same way. 

© S Simmons, The Bead Shed, 2008