✨ Don't Make Hoop Earrings Until You Watch This! ✨

So if you are like me and you like an elegant hoop earring, then stay tuned and we'll learn how to make this size and I'll give you the dimensions for the other size too. Aren't they gorgeous? Really, really simple to make and super easy to make bigger or smaller. So stay tuned if you want to learn how to make these. So without further ado, let's have a look at how to make these. OK, so I'm going to show you the smaller ones, but we're going to make the partner to the larger one. OK, so in the description box, I will put all of the dimensions and all of the, you know, the material and the sizes and everything that you're going to need to make the smaller ones. I'll make I'll tell you the sizes, that kind of thing. Now, you can make this braid with three if you wanted to. I'm just going to show you the two version, exactly the same principle. You just use three wires instead of two. OK, so to make it easy, I will put everything in the description box that you need. Slight housekeeping. I apologise for the little sticking plaster here because, you know, I've been picking and it doesn't look very pretty. So you just have to put up with my thumb. I'm OK, so like I say, everything will be in the description box below. But I'm going to give you the dimensions and all the lengths and everything for the larger hoop, which I think looks really, really pretty in the ear. So the smaller ones do actually. Actually, but, um... You know, what we need to do is take a piece of 0.8 millimetre wire, that's 20 gauge, and we're going to need about 10 centimetres, give or take. Now don't forget that when you're doing all of this yourself, you know, these are just ideas so you can, you know, work out what suits you, can't you? So Here we are, this is our little piece of 0.8. Now I'm using 20 gauge because that's universally renowned sort of size that will go into most ear piercing apertures, holes if you want to call them that, so that's why I'm using 20 gauge. If you want to make them for yourself and make them with a thicker or thinner gauge then that's entirely up to you. So I'm going to take my round nose pliers and just turn a very very tiny loop at the end like that and just make essentially a long eye pin now if you want to you can give this a little bit of a tap you know give it some texture and flatten it slightly if you choose to and i'm choosing not to but this is what we have here all right so you can lay that to one side for a second the next wire that you need to bring in is your 23 um 20 sorry 25 american Sorry, start again, Sammy. 24 American, 0.5 metric, 0.5 millimetre metric. And you're going to need to take two lengths of about 30 centimetres, which is about 12 inches. I'm just pausing there because I'm just looking at my notes just to make sure that I'm giving you all the correct dimensions. When I'm coming up with these things, I sort of write things down in a notebook. which is just off camera just to make sure and I don't forget anything. It's fun making videos but obviously I need to make videos that are you know worthy of your view so you know if I pause now and again it's just so I can give you the correct information. Right so we have 12 inches 30 centimeters so in order to make the partner to this beautiful one here I'm bringing that bring in my wire and then we're going to get some 6-0 beads now I use Preciosa a lot because I really like them. They're super quality beads and these are opaque dark green lustre. 6-0 Preciosa if you wanted to replicate these actual beads. I'm not sure if they still make them because I bought them a long time ago but I'm starting to run out now. But put those to one side and see what I'm doing. In shot. Make sure everything's in shot Sammy. Bring in my ruler I'm going to measure half. way down my pieces of wire here. Don't forget this is you know um able for messing about you know you can make these as long or as short as you like. I prefer to have a little bit more to hold on to when I'm wrapping so you could probably get away with a little bit shorter than this but for this for this demonstration I'm going to be using this length. Pop your wire underneath halfway along here and pop your base wire like that and then what you want to do is just essentially wrap one around the top and one under the bottom and just use your fingers you know to make things nice and neat tidy close like this and then turn it over okay so essentially you want you want this now at this point your little wires may want to spread out a little bit and separate don't let them show the show the moves boss You need to come in with your pliers to tighten them up, then you can do This is essentially what we've got. So follow along if you can. I'll go as slow as I can for the beginner, but obviously you can stop and start the video as you're going along if you wanted to. Now, all of the time, try and keep these wires parallel. Yeah, because that's that's the look that we're going for. Can you see how that braid is parallel? Pretty, pretty. So I put my first bead on like this and then put it down to the end I'm making sure that these are parallel The first wrap that we want to do is the top and over the base wire, so very gently bring this around Now I'm using my thumb and my forefinger here, so you won't see the bead unfortunately you'll just see my plastered thumb, but you'll get the idea. So I'm just going to bring these very gently around keeping everything butted mix it up nice and gently I'm going to bring this around So as you can see, hopefully I am keeping these wires parallel. Can you see that? And then when you get to this point here, bend it underneath Again, keeping your wires nice and tight and parallel. This is our first wrap here. Can you see that? So then we want to do the same thing, but with the bottom wires. So again, keeping them parallel as best you can. If you have to change your hands, move things around a little bit I'll often use my nail here at this point to keep these two wires parallel. You see? And then I'll move it around again, you know, just use your hands as tools, they make great tools And then if you see here, just slightly ones going over the top of the other, just come in with your pliers, and obviously don't mar your wire but very gently, just manipulate your wires a little bit of fingers and thumbs at this stage. So as you can see here, one of the wires has gone over the top of the other one, not a problem, all you have to do Just very carefully With your plier, just come in and straighten that up You see, that's our first wrap. Now, as you're going along this wrap, you'll be able to decide whether you prefer the back or the front. Makes no difference really, but one perhaps might look slightly better than the other, and I'll show you that when we've finished our wrapping. That's our first bead on. Take another bead, slide it on, push it down, and then again, start at the top and bring, oh, got a siren going Going in the background, I hope everyone's all right Just bring your wires around And over the top with your thumb and your forefinger or your middle finger, keeping that bead squished down, you know, not up here, but down here Be nice and flat You see that? And then when you get to this stage, pop it underneath down a little All right. So we've got the first part of our, the top of our braid here You see that? And then we do the same to the bottom. So again, very carefully and gently popping our wires over Change your hands if you need. with your pliers if you need and very gently put the wires over the top of your base wire like this and then when you're happy everything's nice and tight and secure bend it underneath all the time using your fingers just keep these two wires nice, you know, parallel with each other at the end what we'll do is we'll bring our pliers in gently we'll just fettle it a little bit make Make sure that everybody's happy. I'll do one or two more and then we'll meet back. So that it's not too long and exhaustive video, again bead on, keep it butted up nice and neatly, very gently pull your two power wires around and then over the top of your base wire underneath, all the time stretching your wire out, make sure that everyone's happy and then again the bottom wire over the top of your base wire, bend those around, beautiful beautiful braided design, Very gently. Do everything real slow, really deliberately, yeah? You don't have to make these super quickly. Just take your time, enjoy the process, happy with what you're doing. Okay, we'll do one more, and then we'll meet back when I have two, three, four, ten beads on, all right? So like I say, in the description, I will give you all of the dimensions. Bead on, where everybody's happy, and then bring the top one around over the bead underneath. You can either use your fingers or indeed you can come in with your nylon jaw pliers, give everything a bit of a smush up, you know, keeping these parallel, nice and neat. And then this, these two guys here at the bottom, bend them round and then over the top and then bend them under. It's as simple as that, my friends. Super easy, but incredibly effective and a little bit of a development, you know, from the braided stick earrings that were made last week. Can you see that? So I'll join you back here when we've got 10 beads on and then we'll go from there. Right we are back so as you can see here we've got nine beads on on the braid and I'm just going to finish it off. So there's a particular way of doing this which makes it look relatively neat and don't forget this part of it here is going to go into the ear so you want to make sure that this part here is nice and neat and you know free from Thank you for having me. you know sticking out bits and sharp parts. So we're just going to bend Like we've done before, the top guy over and underneath. Make sure everything's nice and secure. And if you're happy with that, which I am, you just want to snip these guys quite close. So I'm just going to come in and snip them relatively close. Mind your eyes as I always say. And then as you can see here, you see that we're just going to squish these guys around. And then just make sure that everything's nice and tight. Okay, so you're still maintaining the arch here, but we've just got them really tight here. And then we cover them over with these two last parts. So bring them over the top. This, ensure again that everything is parallel, just to maintain that nice braided look. The top, over the top again, underneath. So you've got a double wrap at the end. And then again, come in with your pliers if you just need to settle things into place. When you're bending this around in an arc, to make your hoop that sort of settles into place a little bit so don't worry too much. So we're just going to snip the ends of these two guys relatively close and what we want to do then is just squish these two. Now this is the part that will be touching the ear so I'm just going to burnish which is squeeze and twist to make sure that everything's nice and you know no sharp parts Squeeze and twist and now we have our braided stick. Now, at this point, I will say that if you're interested in me showing you how to make the ring version of this, then leave me a comment down in the description box and we'll have a look at doing that for you as well. Literally, you can have a suite of jewellery with this beautiful link. You could make links out of it, you know, for the necklaces and bracelets and things like that. The possibilities are endless with this one. Right, so just settle everything into place So if you're happy with everything and this. You know if it's not then you can just come in you know with your little file or your emery board or whatever just to make sure that that's you know that's okay. So we have our stick here and again like with the earrings that we did the other day um which I can't find now never mind oh is that them yeah bear with me for a second like we did with the earrings the other day with the braid without the beads you know you could do exactly the same But with the beaded version. And pop a little bauble on the end of it if you wanted to. Yeah, I just thought the beads, the inserting the beads was pretty. So I'm going to bring in my ring mandrel now and literally all you need to do is to bend it around so that you've got a gap of about a centimetre in between. I'll show you what I mean. So bend around your mandrel, whatever mandrel you're using, around nice and gently. Thus You want to do it so that you have about so much, about a centimetre. Obviously it will spring back a little bit. You want enough space so that it'll fit into your ear and against the body nicely. Then you just have to give it a little bit of a fettle. Looks exactly right, doesn't it? Yeah, perfect. So there's our second earring. Now, when you are making your post, you want to make it Approximately a centimetre, perhaps just slightly over, just to accommodate the earlobe. I know lots of people have different shaped earlobes. If you're planning to sell them, obviously you need to make them relatively universal in length. And then we want to use our emery. You know, you could make these out of silver if you felt really flush. How beautiful would those be in the silver? But they would be super in silver tone, you know, silver plated copper. And I've just used these little tiny, cute little silicon stoppers because I think you can buy a packet of those. So not very much. I just use those on the ends. And there we have it, my friends. So these are the beautiful beaded braided hoop earrings. And you can make them, like I say, with three or two. And you can make them smaller, you know, if you like something a little bit dainty. So these have been made with 6-0 seed beads and these ones have been made with 8-0 seed beads. So have lots and lots of fun and let me know in the comments how you get along. And also, if you'd like me to see it, you'd like to see me making a ring version of these, which is essentially exactly the same thing. You just finish it off differently at the end. OK, have fun making them and I will see you in my next video, my friends. Take care.