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Easiest Way to Create Beautiful V Shaped Fringe Jewelry
Danielle Wickes teaches how to make these beautiful fringe earrings, using a section of a loom pattern for the top. After she finishes weaving the beads, she shows how to remove the project from the loom and finish off the edges. She also demonstrates how to create a loop for the ear wire and how to make the V shaped fringe at the bottom of the earrings. Though Danielle is using the April Creative Soul kit, you can also create your own pattern for the top or use a section of a pattern you already own. These are techniques you can use in other loom projects...or even your beadweaving projects! Join Danielle for this Jewel Loom School tutorial and learn more techniques to expand your jewelry making techniques.
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Transcript:
hey happy creative soul April earrings
video i'm going to show you how to make
these gorgeous little just I don't know
they feel Hawaiian to me it I started
with the idea of cherry blossoms to
match the bracelet um so that's kind of
where I was going with it and and then
this Hawaiian flower happened and so now
we have these gorgeous summer ready
fringe that um really complement the
bracelet still so I'm just going to show
you what they look like on really quick
and then we'll go ahead and just dive
into how to make them which is super
simple really really easy to do let's
see if I can make sure you guys can see
them bring them a little closer so what
do you think they're pretty cool huh i
like them just a fun little pair of
fringe to get your summer going and um
let's just show you how to make them
you're going to need your earring looms
and you're going to need your April
Creative Soul Seedbead
kit here's an up close view of the
earring beautiful loomed piece that has
a gorgeous fringe added to it and so
we're going to create its pair in
today's video so to get started you'll
want to have your earring loom handy and
we're going to put 12 warp threads onto
the earring loom and so to start your
warps you'll want to locate on the loom
the little
notch and tie a double knot to
it so there's
one and here's the second side of my
double knot and I left myself a little
tiny tail i use that tail to go ahead
and tie to at the end when I've got my
warps on but for now it might get in
your way so you can always just kind of
press it out of the other
direction just kind of hold it like at
the back like that it's kind of usually
what I do and bring your thread
around and we're going to want to bring
that right through the first
comb and then through the bottom comb
here and at the base
here
cross and go through the first comb and
then I like to use either my thumbnail
or my fingernail to hold that thread in
place while I bring it up through the
next
comb pull tightly and then head through
the next one we're going to work one for
one for a total of 12 warp strands to
get started
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all right and so there is my 12th warp
strand and it's easier to count them on
the side even when it's a light colored
thread you can just sit there and count
make sure you have 12 in total going
across your loom and turning at the
combs on the edges here and the easiest
way to
tie so this is to finish off your piece
or finish off your your strand is bring
it down through the comb that is a you
know headed from the one you're exiting
and then just kind of hold everything in
place and bring it over to meet your
tail thread where you can tie a double
knot and to hold everything steady while
you're making that knot if you want to
you can wrap
around the notch place where you do the
the knot the first knot just kind of
like wrap around like that one
time and then hold everything for a
second and go ahead and trim that thread
free from your spool at this point a
little easier to get that knot going
when you have your strands heading just
like that together so tail thread and
the last warp
strand and we'll just go ahead and do
one and two and once you've got those
tied you could even do a third just to
you know make it extra strong i don't
know so it might just be two is okay but
I hope there's some reason just do three
and then I'm going to trim those so
they're not in my way for my next
steps all right so there's our 12 warp
strands now if you want to make your
warps tighter me I feel like I like them
really tight so I put this tassel maker
in there and that makes them just tight
as a guitar and for me that makes it
easier to get my rows in and so let's
start a new strand
doesn't need to be super super long um
because keep in mind we're going to do
fringe using the warps so if you want to
just go with um you know maybe 45 in to
50 in or so probably
plenty and a hard beading needle and get
your needle
threaded all right right and so from
here you want to string on the first row
of beads which is 11 color A and leaving
a sevenin tail on the side that is to my
left cuz I'm right-handed so I'm working
with my beads over here um you want to
leave that sevenin tail underneath
you're coming underneath the strands and
stringing those 11 beads now if you like
this technique this is just my thing for
getting beads on i use my needle
temporarily going back through all the
beads as a
stabilizer and it makes it easier for me
to do this first step
here which is to get all those beads in
between the strands and if you get
something like that don't sweat it you
can always move
them and sometimes you can move them
more than one at a
time i find that once I get these lined
up it's a lot easier for me to line up
the
others these as in each edge right
looks like I've got them all but my edge
one there we
go so once you've got them positioned
and don't worry if they're cattywampus
don't worry if you're working in the
middle we're going to slide this go
ahead and pull that needle out you've
got those beads in there now working
with the eye side and this is pretty
important this will save you some time
working with the eye side of your needle
go back through the beads staying above
the warp strands
so push up on the outer wall of the bead
to make sure that you're staying above
these as you pass back through the
beads pull that
through and then business card or even a
bead scooper slide those beads down
somewhere toward the bottom this isn't a
very tall piece the loom piece is only
going to be um a few 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 it's only actually 11 rows that
we're going to have to do so super quick
but get the um you get the beads kind of
toward toward the bottom there and then
string on your next
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row so the next row is going to go on a
lot easier you don't need to bring the
needle back through it just position the
first bead the one that's on the right
and then just roll the beads from there
right into their spots
and we can straighten all that out later
don't worry if it's not exactly lined up
and again working with that eye side go
through all those beads again heading
back staying above the
warp and pull that
through and then from here you can just
tidy it all up
so we're going to repeat just like that
until we finished all 11 of the pattern
rows and then we'll take it off the loom
and start adding our
fringe all right once you've got your
beautiful pattern
loomed we can go ahead and remove it
from the piece or remove the piece from
the loom so I'm just going to set my
tassel maker aside and to get the the
piece off of the loom the best way is to
just go ahead and
free the strand that is knotted here so
just the one that's knotted we're going
to use some cutters and you can use
scissors or flush cutters i've been
using flush cutters to gently lift the
knot see like that and the reason I like
doing that is because then my knots's
free from my loom for me to use it next
time
but you can always just trim the strand
itself and that works too and when when
you do that it will
free this edge one
here and you might have some of that
knot kind of just added to the end there
we'll just trim that and you'll have
this one free so you see you've freed
these two but these are still hooked
around and that's important because
we're going to use them as a way to pull
in our warp strands so just go ahead and
use your thumbnail to assist them off of
the
combs and that side should fall free and
the other side will just fall
off and so now you'll
have a lot of warp
strands and you'll have your two weft
threads these are the ones we were
sewing with there's the remaining
working thread and the tail ignore those
for now the two on the side and then for
these go ahead and just pull them in and
I'm going to just hold it up and show
you on a piece this small it's super
easy and it's going to give us a really
long warp strand which is great because
we can use it for our fringe so
whichever side you want um I'm going to
start pulling over here so that my long
strand ends up down here and my thinking
on that is just let me show you really
quick i want it to kind of mirror and so
I want to build my fringe down
here and you could also
say flip it like that but decide if you
have a side that you think is your
favorite to be the top it actually could
be either but I'm just showing you now
what I chose and I'm probably going to
create them to be worn like a mirror of
each other so based on that I'm going to
start pulling here on the side that my
WS are on and what'll end up happening
is my long strand will end up being over
here
so let's just hold it hold it tightly in
your hand grab the very edge warp thread
that's this one right here and pull it
and do you see the little loop here at
the bottom it should just connect right
there and now I'm going to take this one
which is the next one in at the other
side i'm going to pull on it
and what's happening here at the top of
the piece or this this slider here is
that loop will go ahead and
hug my edge
bead pull this one same
thing happening there on the other side
and you see the strand is getting longer
and
longer on a piece this small it's so
easy to just pull it with your fingers
on the the bracelet if you wa watch the
bracelet video
um you'll see that we had to use pliers
because the long strand going through a
bracelet is a little harder to pull but
this little piece super easy and you see
I was just freeing a loop that was
getting pulled
in and this is why we loomed with our
eye side of the needle if you're pulling
on your strands right now and it's not
not pulling
freely freely enough for you to just use
your fingers maybe you've caught one of
the warps when you were
weing in which case you will have to
weave in at least that
strand but hopefully if you use the eye
side to do your warping of those just
sweet 11 little rows there then you'll
have the ease of doing it this way
and always switching sides every time
you pull up then you switch to down and
there are going to start as this gets
long it's going to start to pull in the
others so just watch for
that there's that
one get in
there i'm going to go ahead and just
film the whole thing it's not going to
take us that long
so far so good and then we're going to
pull from this
side this this is going to be a pretty
long strand at this point so just keep
going as you get to where the loop is
small go slow so you don't pull too hard
and warp the edge of your piece here's
our last one
and so here's our strand that's going to
become the fringe
maker all right so now we have a fringe
strand down here and up here we have
several strands to work with and what
we're going to use one of these up here
the other two you can weave in but use
one to create this little top
loop so really quickly I'm going to stop
the camera and just weave in my strands
i'll weave in these two right
here all right zooming in here i'm going
to show you creating a little top loop
and so what you'll want to do is your
thread will be exiting this is I'm using
my left over weft thread and so I'm
going to just jump
over the warp strand that's on the side
and go through a few beads
and this is how I did the weaving in so
um if if that's new to you this is how I
did that you just pick up some
of the little weft threads that are
running through the beads those are the
ones you were creating as you warped and
what you'll want to do is just bring
your needle underneath them very gently
see to pick them up like that and this
is this is the weaving in method that I
used to do those other
strands bring that through and notice
where I'm exiting from i brought myself
to the center three beads of this
piece so bring that
through and now just go ahead and head
up
through however many beads you are down
you may have gone down more more or less
than me bring yourself to exit from that
center edge of the center three so for
me that's one two three four in one two
three four and so we're going to create
a loop of seed beads that jumps over
that middle row and connects to the top
row to look just like that so you'll
pick up two and then one of the pink and
then two of the uh the transparent
red back to
pink and then two more of
those and head down through however many
beads you want really we're going to
need to reinforce that but the goal is
just to go through a few of those beads
and then you'll want to go under we
threads again to move yourself right
back to underneath the one where the uh
strand starts so through
those and then head
up and reinforce all of
that if your other strand is trying to
join you just move that strand
away there we go
and as you're reinforcing if you want to
take a peek at the side of the warp
you're exiting from so the side warp if
you want to go down through the beads
passing on the opposite side it'll cover
up the warp thread on that
side so you see what I mean so right now
the bead you can kind of see watch what
happens there so now on both sides it's
snuggled on top of the
warp and so over here on this one I
still need to do that see so if you come
up through the beads from in front of
the warp thread in this
case it
will very um symmetrically settle this
loop you see how right now it's kind of
in front of it this strand that's
running the side head
up and make sure when the needle comes
out of that bead that it's coming out in
front of the warp strand and then go
ahead and head through those beads and
if you want to try to do that maybe in
two swoops it might be
easier just to make sure I stay in front
of that
strand
oops so like that
and then just head through
those my tension's pretty good so I'm
having a little struggle getting in
there i'm also really careful not to
puncture strands i don't know i just
always kind of meticulously work that
way but there see
now front and back that loop is staying
right where you might want it
to head up through here down through
here down through this
one and from here just head into the
beads and weave in the rest of this
strand there it
is so now put a needle on that long warp
strand that we left at the beginning
and notice that it is a warp strand so
it's running the side it is the strand
that's running this whole edge so you
want to go ahead
and jump
over and go under the
left around that bead the reason for
that is you don't want
to start your
fringe heading that direction right you
want it to head down so we're going to
go around the bead see and then down
through the bead
and that tip will save you having fringe
that's a little wonky as we make each of
these fringe strands remember the tip
that I gave you up here about this the
um direction so that it's straddling the
warp you can do the same thing here with
your fringe just take note that right
now I'm exiting it from the front of
that warp strand from the bead and as I
string my first pattern row of
fringe which in this case is just two
two two two and then one bronze in the
center and then we'll do two back out
just repeating
that two all the way to the
edge slide that down
and then I used the turning bead to be
this little clear bead because of my
thread is the same color and it kind of
hides the
turn so skipping that
bead go back up through all those
beads that we just
strung and then just take a quick note
remember what I was mentioning and see
I'm in front of that strand in front of
that warp go over it and behind
it as you head up the bead
and if you want to to make your fringe
really steady you can go through two
beads like I've done there i I do kind
of do that when I make a fringe on a
loom piece so from here hold that
turning
bead and just
pull get the tension right make sure
you're happy with it and there's your
first strand of fringe
from wherever you're exiting go under
those WS one and then the next
one so just like that we're going to do
this after every fringe strand is
added there you go and then heading down
to start the next
one and again I'm taking note that I'm
exiting in front of the warp there
i'm hoping that is easy to
see and now I'm going to string the next
strand for every single strand patterns
the same counts except for the
blue so every fringe strand starting
here you add one more to the blue repeat
so here's two see and then you go three
but everything in between is the same
then it's
four then five then six and then you'll
reach the center which is seven you'll
have seven blue and then it'll go to um
the same repeat and then seven more blue
then you'll start going a decrease six
five four three ending with two again so
go ahead and do that remembering to
straddle those warp threads so that on
both sides your fringe is completely
encapsulating it see you can't see the
edge warp anymore on this piece and
that's because after I string this next
one I'm going to come back up and go
through the bead from the other
side of that warp strand so just like
that see you just want to jump over it
and that is all there is to it let's
finish the fringe and then I'll show you
how to put it to um weave in one more
time after you've got all your fringe on
all right my last fringe strand
and I'm going to go ahead and just show
you one more time that see how I've
exited from in front of the warp there
i'm just going to go around go through
the bead this way and this time I'm
going to head up through a few more
because it's time to weave
in well I just got through two but there
we
go and so here's the last little bit
there they are all beautiful little
French strands there so weaving in just
going to go under a few weft
threads up through a few beads and
repeat and before you repeat that
weaving in step do one little thing
really quick um make sure the tension on
that last strand is as you like it
because this step will possibly tighten
it and so just double check that before
you keep going
your fringe should be pretty free
flowing and just go ahead and weave that
in and
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trim so there they are and keep in mind
if you want you can flip them so they
mirror each other when you're wearing
them like you can always have them be
like that so when you put your ear wires
on just decide which side you'd like to
have as the mirrored front and back and
depending on which way you did your
flowers you may even have them flipped
and that's okay too i think they're
beautiful no matter which direction you
wear them in and there you
are i hope you enjoyed this tutorial and
we'll see you for the next Creative Soul
project