Long Fringe Earrings with Multiple Bead Sizes Tutorial
Create the Long Fringe Earrings, a lightweight and eye-catching accessory combining multiple bead sizes and textured fringe. This tutorial covers essential techniques including ladder stitch, brick stitch, and fringe work, using DragonThread, 11/0 and 8/0 seed beads, tublet beads, and crystal drops. Learn how to layer fringe lengths, create balanced triangular forms, and adapt brick stitch tension across different bead sizes. Finish the piece with a wire guard and earwire attachment. These earrings are versatile, perfect for summer styles, and easily customized with various color schemes or bead shapes.
Prepare Materials:
Use size 6 DragonThread, about 4 feet long. Thread a stop bead to prevent slipping while you work.
Create Ladder Stitch Base:
Use groupings of 8/0 – 11/0 – 8/0 seed beads. Repeat until you have 5 rows to form your base strip.
Add First Fringe Drop:
Thread beads in this pattern: 5 x 11/0, tublet, 11/0, 8/0, crystal drop, then 3 x 11/0 (picot trim). Skip the picot trim beads and go back up through the strand to secure.
Build the Full Fringe:
Next fringe strand: Use 7 beads, then tublet, 11/0, 8/0, drop, picot trim. Repeat and increase to 8 beads in the middle strand, then decrease: Pattern = 5 – 7 – 8 – 7 – 5 strands.
Begin Brick Stitch:
Turn work upward. Stitch rows of 3 x 11/0s per set onto bridge threads above the ladder stitch. Share the first and last threads to maintain the triangular shape.
Add Additional Brick Rows:
Alternate using 8/0s and 11/0s. Adjust the number of bead sets in each row based on the bridge thread count (e.g., 6, 5, 4 sets).
Attach Wire Guard:
At the top row, add 2 x 8/0s with 1 x 11/0 in between. Skip to the far bridge thread to form a triangle shape. Add wire guard with 11/0s on each side.
Reinforce & Finish:
Tie thread off using a bridge thread with a square knot. Reinforce the wire guard and final rows. Trim and burn ends for a clean finish.
Add Earwire:
Slide earwire onto the wire guard loop and close securely.
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Create the Long Fringe Earrings, a lightweight and eye-catching accessory combining multiple bead sizes and textured fringe. This tutorial covers essential techniques including ladder stitch, brick stitch, and fringe work, using DragonThread, 11/0 and 8/0 seed beads, tublet beads, and crystal drops. Learn how to layer fringe lengths, create balanced triangular forms, and adapt brick stitch tension across different bead sizes. Finish the piece with a wire guard and earwire attachment. These earrings are versatile, perfect for summer styles, and easily customized with various color schemes or bead shapes.
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Potomac Crystal Teardrop Beads - Alexandrite AB 6x8mm, 10 Beads
Prepare Materials:
Use size 6 DragonThread, about 4 feet long. Thread a stop bead to prevent slipping while you work.
Create Ladder Stitch Base:
Use groupings of 8/0 – 11/0 – 8/0 seed beads. Repeat until you have 5 rows to form your base strip.
Add First Fringe Drop:
Thread beads in this pattern: 5 x 11/0, tublet, 11/0, 8/0, crystal drop, then 3 x 11/0 (picot trim). Skip the picot trim beads and go back up through the strand to secure.
Build the Full Fringe:
Next fringe strand: Use 7 beads, then tublet, 11/0, 8/0, drop, picot trim. Repeat and increase to 8 beads in the middle strand, then decrease: Pattern = 5 – 7 – 8 – 7 – 5 strands.
Begin Brick Stitch:
Turn work upward. Stitch rows of 3 x 11/0s per set onto bridge threads above the ladder stitch. Share the first and last threads to maintain the triangular shape.
Add Additional Brick Rows:
Alternate using 8/0s and 11/0s. Adjust the number of bead sets in each row based on the bridge thread count (e.g., 6, 5, 4 sets).
Attach Wire Guard:
At the top row, add 2 x 8/0s with 1 x 11/0 in between. Skip to the far bridge thread to form a triangle shape. Add wire guard with 11/0s on each side.
Reinforce & Finish:
Tie thread off using a bridge thread with a square knot. Reinforce the wire guard and final rows. Trim and burn ends for a clean finish.
Add Earwire:
Slide earwire onto the wire guard loop and close securely.
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