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Bead and Wire Earrings Tutorial
These earrings are relatively easy to create. No complicated wire work skills are necessary. You can vary the number of beads, shapes, colors and patterns as you please. I recommend bead sizes no bigger than 6mm. The hole should be big enough to fit 20 gauge wire.

Posted by zoraida.bros from Patchogue, New York, United States • Published 29th February 2016 • See zoraida.bros's 7 projects »

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Step 1
Hold the 20 gauge wire in your non dominant hand and start wrapping a 14″ section of 24 gauge wire about 1/2″ from the end. Make approximately 14-16 wraps.
Step 2
String a bead onto the 20 gauge wire
Step 3
Go over the bead with the 24 gauge wire and wrap around the 20 gauge, down, around and back up.
Step 4
String another bead onto the wire and repeat the previous step until you have seven or eight beads. Wrap the 24 gauge wire the same number of times as you did at the start
Step 5
With your fingers, gently bend the whole piece into a “U” shape and trim the excess 24 gauge wire. Pinch it with your chain or flat nose pliers
Step 6
Cross the frame wires to create a teardrop shape at the top
Step 7
Wrap the smaller section of 20 gauge wire around the longer piece once. Cut it close to the longer section of wire and pinch it with your pliers
Step 8
Straighten the long wire and place it on your steel block. Carefully and lightly hammer the wire section with no coils or beads on it to harden the ear wire
Step 9
The wire will curve. With your nylon jaw pliers, straighten it
Step 10
String a bead onto the wire
Step 11
Bend the wire 90 degrees with your thumb just over the bead
Step 12
With a mandrel, pencil, marker or other cylindrical shaped tool, curve the wire toward the front of the earring to create an open loop. Try to keep the small bend over the bead. This will hold it in place later.
Step 13
Trim the wire to approximately 1 1/4″
Step 14
With the flat nose pliers, bend about 1/4″ slightly outward at the tip of the wire
Step 15
File the end of the ear wire with a small file, emery board, or cup burr to smooth it and remove any sharp edges
Step 16
Your earring is finished. Make the other earring. They should look something like this. These have been oxidized with Liver of Sulfur.