| Step 8: This step is optional, but recommended. Cut and straighten a 2 inch piece of 22 or 24G wire. Bend this smaller wire around the 18G wire in the wire component that you just made at the point where the wire crosses itself at the bottom of the loop made around the 5/16" Super Peg. Wrap the 22 or 24 G wire around the 18G wire this point three times with the ends of the finer gauge wire at the bottom of the loop. Cut the excess fine gauge wire and using your bent chain nose pliers, squeeze the ends so that they lie flat and inconspicuous. |
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Step 9: Using 6mm beads and head-pins, attach bead dangles to each lower loop in the wire component. For larger, more ornate earrings make more complex bead dangles. These bead dangles can include many beads with coordinated colors. Step 10: Open the loop in your ear wire finding and attach the 18 G wire component that you just completed. Now make your second earring using the same steps defined above. You can make your earrings a mirror image of one another by carefully selecting the orientation of the wire component as you connect it to the ear wire finding. |
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In the following web page we will identify the materials that were used to make the earrings shown and will show the peg pattern for a round jig, like the WigJig Cyclops. |
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