Earrings, bracelets, necklaces ... I love to make them all. Swarovski crystal beads bring sparkling colors and visual texture to my jewelry designs. Czech Republic glass beads offer rich deep colors, with individual 2-tone Czech beads often possessing unique color shading within the clear glass of the bead. For warm colors, I like to make bracelets from the natural beauty of obsidian and jasper beads.

	Simple to make earrings. I saw a design for similar earrings using 26 gauge dead soft gold wire. Not having any on hand I decided to see how these design would look like using regular sewing thread. View photos and comments below to see how I did it ... Overall earring length excluding earwire: 1 inch Materials: gold plated fishhook earrings gold plated 9 loop chandelier drop Kelly green, silver foil lined, triangle shaped beads 4x4x4mm, and 3mm long. thread, needle
	Make sure you work on the front side on your earring drop. Thread needle, put single thread through first loop. Knot thread. Snip off thread close to knot. Then I move the knot so it would wind up near the third or fourth glass bead to hide the knot.
	Make sure you work on the front side on your earring drop. In this photo I marked the first loop to be number 1.
1) Working on the front of your drop, and your thread already through the first loop and knotted, put the needle/thread through your first bead. 2) Push the needle/thread through loop 2, your needle/thread is now underneath the front side of the drop. Your bead is on the top of your drop, held by a U-shaped thread piece. 3) Bring the needle/thread back up through loop 1, so that the needle/thread is on same side as the front of the drop. It is like your bead is in a small circle of thread. 4) Push your needle/thread behind the glass bead in the small area between loop 1 and loop 2. (See arrow in photo). Your needle/thread is again beneath the front side of the drop. 5) Coming up from underneath, push your needle/thread up through loop 2 so that the needle/thread is on same side as the front of the drop. 6) Pull your thread tight and your glass bead should be firmly sitting on top of the drop, between loops 1 and 2. For the second bead: 1) Working on the front of your drop, your thread is coming out of loop 2. Put the needle/thread through your second bead. 2) Push the needle/thread through loop 3, your needle/thread is now underneath the front side of the drop. Your second bead is on the top of your drop, held by a U-shaped thread piece. 3) Bring the needle/thread back up through loop 2, so that the needle/thread is on same side as the front of the drop. It is like your second bead is in a small circle of thread. 4) Push your needle/thread behind the glass bead in the small area between loop 2 and loop 3. Your needle/thread is again beneath the front side of the drop. 5) Coming up from underneath, push your needle/thread up through loop 3 so that the needle/thread is on same side as the front of the drop. 6) Pull your thread tight and your glass bead should be firmly sitting on top of the drop, between loops 2 and 3. and so on for each bead. If you are working from the right, the pattern is the same with your first loop being the right most loop. Put thread through your first loop, knot, snip thread close to knot. Put needle thread through first bead, then down into second loop, come back up in first loop. Your bead is held in a thread circle. Push needle/thread down in small area between loop 1 and loop 2. This is so that you next bring the needle/thread up through loop 2. Your needle/thread is coming out of loop 2, put on your second bead, push needle/thread down into loop 3. Come back up through loop 2, then needle/thread back down into small area between loop 2 and loop 3. Come back up through loop 3 and you are ready to put your third bead on.
	In this photo I want to show you how nice and clean the back of the drop looks. To ensure the ending knot did not show, after my last bead I weaved the thread through the back thread until I got to the center of the drop. Then I snip the thread to open the thread so that I could weave a single thread once, twice through the back thread and then knot the two pieces of ending thread together to ensure the knot remains tight and closed.