Beaded Treasury: FREE TUTORIAL: "Starlet" beadwoven earrings

“Starlet"

Beadwoven earrings

Tutorial

Techniques

Beadweaving

Project Level

Beginner to Intermediate

Materials

1 gr. white luster opaque 11/0 seed beads

0.5 gr. crystal rainbow 15/0 seed beads

Size B white beading thread

2 12 mm silver perforated round discs

2 13mm silver plated flat pad post earring findings with prongs (to match the 12mm discs)

2 earrings stoppers

Tools

Size 12 beading needle

Scissors

A flat nose pliers

Finished Size

Diameter – 1.8 cm (approx. 0.7 inches)

Instructions

	Materials you’ll need for the project.
	Step 1. Cut about 90 cm (35.4 inches) of thread and pass it through the needle hole. Take the perforated disc and hold it with the convex side facing upward. This will be the front side of our work. Bring the needle through one of the holes of the inner round of holes, back to front.
	Take the needle to the back side through the central hole of the perforated disc.

	Turn the disc on the other side and tie the threads together with two square knots, leaving a tail of 10 cm (4 inches).
	Take the needle back to the front side through the central hole of the perforated disc.
	Step 2. Pick two 11/0 seed beads and one 15/0 seed bead and slide them down toward the perforated disc.

	Skip the 15/0 seed bead and go back through the two 11/0 seed beads and the hole of the perforated disc the thread exited from (in this case the central hole), going to the back side of the disc.
	Step 3. Take the needle back to the front side through one of the holes of the inner circle of holes of the perforated disc. Repeat adding in each hole of the inner circle seed beads as explained at Step 2.
	Step 4. After having added seed beads in the inner circle of holes take the needle to the outer circle and continue adding seed beads as explained at Step 2.

	This is how our perforated disc looks like with all holes covered with heed beads.
	Step 5. In this step we will be adding more seed beads in the outer circle of holes. For this, take the needle to the front side through the next hole in the outer circle.
	Add seed beads as explained at Step 2 in each outer hole. This time the seed beads will lie horizontally around the perforated disc as shown in the picture on the left.

	This is the completed starlet.
	Step 6. On the back side, tie the two thread ends together with a few square knots and cut the excess.
	Step 7. Insert the beaded disc on top of the ear pad with prongs.

	Now we need to fix the perforated disc on the ear pad by bending the prongs inward.
	Use a flat nose pliers to do this as shown in the picture on the left. Be careful not to break the seed beads. Congratulations! The earring is ready!