Pretty in Pink Wire Wrapped Earrings

An ordinary bead becomes extraordinary in this spruced up project. Ready to have some fun?

Round up: grab your chain nose pliers, round nose pliers, wire cutters, two beads, two long head pins, two jump rings, two ear wires and some 24 gauge wire. Got it? Good.

Now slip your bead onto your head pin and proceed as if you were about to make an ordinary loop, only leave more room at the end; we’re gonna wrap the excess wire around the head pin.

Once you’ve got a long enough tail, hold the eye of the pin firmly with your chain nose pliers, and begin to wrap the tail away from you. That should look something like what you see in a different bead here. You should be able to go two or three times around. You’ll have a small bit of wire sticking out when you are at the end of wrapping your tail. You’ll eventually want to trim that with your wire cutters, so that all the wire is flush against the pin.

Once you’re finished with that, you’ll want to begin wrapping your 24-gauge wire around the pin more or less where your wrapped pin work ends. Keep wrapping as the pin transitions to the bead. Wrap the wire away from your body, keeping the wire close against the previous wrap and snug to the bead.

Once you’ve wrapped the top portion of the bead, snip your wire so that you’ll have maybe four or so inches of wire left. Make a small loop at the end of that tail and use your chain nose pliers to coil the wire inward, toward the bead. Keep your coil nice and tight. Once you’ve coiled the wire completely (that is, you’ve run out of tail), press the coil firmly against the bead.


Slip your jump rings through the eye of each wire wrapped bead, add them to your ear wires and you’re done!

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