Native American Style Earrings

I´m happy to share with you my first actual blog text.

Sometimes I want to tell you more about my making of process about the jewelry I made but I try to keep it short when I write it on Etsy listings. So I´m very happy that I started this blog where I can tell you more about my thoughts and feelings about jewelry making.

Today I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings about making of Native American style earrings. I like to call them simply Tassel earrings. 😊

I wanted to learn new way to make earrings that will fit my shop. I usually make very simple earrings and wanted to make earrings of seed beads. 

As a young girl I have made bracelet of seed beads but never earrings. Couple years back I thought to try my first Native American style earrings but at that time I didin´t got right size seed beads. So you can imagine that makes things little bit harder as I try to follow instructions.

 

Here´s my first three Native American style earrings that I made couple years ago

In the picture above you can see that my seed beads were little too big for this kind project. As a jewelry maker I have noticed that it´s huge difference between one millimeter either way. Trust me, it´s big issue when making jewelry. One millimeter extra can sometimes make the jewelry look totally different than you originally have thought about. That´s why it´s good to always have right size and right tools to make specific jewelry.

So I went to shop right size seed beads and thought to try it again. With right size beads the earrings looks little bit different and tassels goes more evenly and whole earrings became more delicate.

Here´s my tassel earrings in yellow seed beads and magenta colored bugle beads. Love the purple and yellow color combinations which are my favorite colors

This year I extend my learning and tried to make similar earrings without bugle beads. Somehow they are hard to find here in Finland. I can´t find right length and there isn´t available as beautiful colors like seed beads. 

Once again I followed the instructions which was actually in Spanish! I don´t speak Spanish but it was enough for me that I could see on the video instructions how it goes. This was so called mind blowing for me. It was like whole new world just opened for me. So many possibilities and new ways to make similar earrings flooded in my mind.  

Here´s my first earrings without bugle beads. I chose colors in black, brown and golden to create more earthy color combination earrings. I still got many seed beads that just waits for me to figure out what color combination I will use

Years back I struggled to make my first ones which actually took me two days to figure out how the beads should be stitched and now in a day I can make pair or two. 

~ Minna