Dreamcatcher Earrings

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  Step 1

  Start by gathering your materials, you can see on this image the materials I used for this particular pair (purple thread wasn't used in the end)

  The bottle top rings are the bit that you snap free from the cap when opening a plastic bottle, these came from lunchbox sized bottles of Copella apple and elderflower juice and can usually be wiggled off the bottle easily.

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  Step 2

  You need to start by making a long piece of thread, for speed I would recommend using 4 or 5 threads at once. Loop this through your earring hook and tie off on your bottle top ring. Then wrap the whole of the bottle cap ring in the thread so you can't see any of the plastic.

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  Step 3

  Once you've gone around the whole ring tie the threads off around where the earring hook joins the ring.

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  Step 4

  Follow an image like the one here to make the dreamcatcher inside the ring, you can change colour threads at any point to create a multicoloured dreamcatcher. If you have fine thread I recommend using multiple strands while doing this step.

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  Step 5

  Add a bead into each earring about half way through - this represents the spider in the web.

  Alternatively you could add beads at regular intervals creating a super sparkly pair!

  Remember to leave a small hole in the middle of the dreamcatcher, and tie off your end to the nearest thread.

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  Step 6

  Congratulations! You've just finished your earrings! Now go out and rock them!

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One Morbid Little Thing · Belle Chasse, Louisiana, US 27th July 2014

From what I've read, dreamcatchers originated with a Native American people, but were popularized in the 1960s and 1970s and became misappropriated. That being said, it's hardly Vicky's fault, and if she wishes to make something in a manner respectful of the originating culture, there is nothing wrong with that.

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Ammelanoleuca · Berkeley, California, US · 76 projects 26th July 2014

Cheap and stylish....and cultural appropriation :/
http://reclaimingthenativetag.tumblr.com/post/72621028682/is-the-usage-of-dreamcatchers-in-ways-like-tattoos

Vicky · Colchester, England, GB · 55 projects 26th July 2014

I'm pretty fed up of people throwing 'cultural appropriation' at things, I've read all the arguments and honestly I can't see the problem. If you want to get angry over me appreciating your culture in the only way I can because I'm not really a part of it then that's kinda petty. I enjoy the aesthetic and the history, I haven't ever set out to rape your culture or whatever, so please find something better to do with your time than posting political comments on a craft website.

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