Ovals Jewelry Wire & Beads Earrings Jewelry Making Project -- Page 7

In this alternative design, we use the same pegs for peg 1, 2 and 3, but add peg 4, a regular metal peg to make the earring body shown at right.  You can view this modified peg pattern at left.  Because of the loop at the bottom of these earrings, we recommend hanging a bead dangle, or as shown at right, a 6x9 or 7x10 Cubic Zirconia Pendant.  The difference in making this alternative design is that after bending your wire 1/2 way around peg 3, you wrap the wire around peg 4, then continue bending the wire the rest of the way around peg 3 and back to peg 2.  It should be relatively easy to understand the change required to make these earrings. 

The final alternative we will discuss here will be to make these same patterns but larger for use as a pendant in a necklace.  If you want to make a pendant for a necklace that matches your earrings, you would follow exactly the same steps but use a larger peg pattern, larger pegs and larger beads.  The pattern shown at left uses two 3/8" Super Pegs to create a larger pendant hanging.  This pattern could accommodate 8mm beads on the bead dangle hanging in the center of the ovals wire component. 

We hope that our readers will enjoy at least one of our alternative designs.  We think that these designs are great for earrings and would also make a very nice pendant for a necklace.