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Step 10: Remove the wire from the jig and cut the excess wire tail
off. Close the loop at the top. This completes the basic
diamond chandelier wire component that forms the body of this earring. |
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| Step 11: The easiest way to complete these earrings is to turn
this wire component upside down so that the two loops that were on top,
now become the bottom. (Please note that this was not the way the
earring at right was completed.) With these two loops on the
bottom, you can connect the top loop directly to one of your ear wire
findings by opening the loop in the
ear wire finding using your chain nose pliers. After adding the
loop to the ear wire finding, close the loop in the ear wire finding.
The two loops combined are likely to be too large to easily connect to
the ear wire finding, but the single loop can do this easily. In
the following page we will describe how to make the modified figure 8
connector used in the earrings at right. |
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| Step 12: Now complete this earring by hanging three bead dangles from each of the bottom loops in the diamond chandelier wire component. Each bead dangle should be about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch long. In the earrings upper, right, I used Topaz Light size 11 seed beads as spacers between two 4mm Amethyst Light and one 6mm Amethyst beads. There are many variations on this color pattern that can work. For high end earrings you can use gold-filled metal beads instead of seed beads. The combination of Amethyst Light and Amethyst beads can work with Czech glass, fire polished beads, or with Swarovski, Austrian cut glass crystals, and the color combination can be changed to Sapphire and Sapphire-Light, or Rose and Rose-Light, or any other pair of complementary colors. |
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