Summer is green. This year in Finland summer has come early, I found myself thinking of green thoughts and I was drawn to green bicones. I’m not sure whether this looks more a tree or a frog but it doesn’t matter as long as it’s all nice and green. In this triangle project, tight weaving is essential. Floppy triangle doesn’t hang nicely from your ears. You’ll notice I mention the importance of tightening every now and then.
Ingredients
- 9 bicones (4 mm)
- 3 seedbeads (11/o)
- needle and beadstring
- beading wire
- two crimp beads and two crimp bead covers
- jump ring
- earwire
At first, place a seedbead and three bicones on a thread. Stopper bead is not necessary.
Take the string through the seedbead for a second time, then through all of the beads 2-3 times. Remember to make it tight.
Second round is pretty much like the first one. After you’ve gone once through the second round, bits may be a little apart (like above), but as you take the same round again and tighten, they fall close to each other.
The third triangle is a bit trickier. Method of trial and error has shown that here it’s best to set the seedbead first, anchor it down by making a round through seedbeads, then add the three bicones. Now the shape is complete, you just need to go round through all the beads in the work to tighten them. Tie the loose ends to a proper knot and go through the seedbeads so many times that you have difficulties getting through. When the hole of a seedbead becomes small, the thread won’t run away by itself and you may cut the rest.
And then comes the beading wire. Take it through one of your bicones and place a crimp bead to both sides.
See that both wire ends come through from both crimp beads. Leave about 5 mm space between them and crimp. Cut the rest.
Place a cover on one of the crimp beads, then try on the jump ring. Here I have made the jump ring smaller between two phases. It would have been too big and jumped out of its place all the time. A preferred size is small enough to stay in its place but big enough to let the earring hang naturally. It may be a good idea to spare the cut piece to remind you how much to cut when you make a twin for your earring.
Summer is so green, don’t you think?
