Elizabethan Post Earrings Pattern Download

Description

This style is elegant and perfect for those women who like to cover the ear lobe with post earrings. Paired with big ear nuts, they are very comfortable to wear. You can do yours as shown in this project, with a dangle and metal beads on half of the frame, you can put beads all around it, or none at all. For a shorter version, you can skip the dangle.

Required Materials: Half hard wire, dead soft wire, freshwater pearl coins, round or rondelle beads, top-drilled marquise or teardrop beads, metal round beads, pair of large ear nuts. See project for complete list.

Tools Needed: Flush cutters, chain nose pliers, flat nose pliers, mandrel, bench block, chasing hammer, metal file. See project for complete list.

Techniques Used: Wire working with beads.

Originally Published: Step by Step Wire Jewelry Fall 2009