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How To Use An Earring Loom For AMAZING Jewelry Results
Learn how to make these Sassy Fringe Earrings in a short amount of time. Join Danielle for this Jewel Loom School tutorial. She is using the February Creative Soul kit, but you can use any section of a pattern...or make your own pattern! Then add these swingy fringes for an eye-catching design!
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Transcript:
hey everyone thank you for tuning in for
um this month's bonus earrings for the
creative Soul um looming workshops and
kits so today's uh project is going to
be worked with the earring Loom and so
these are sold in pairs and the link
will be in the description for where you
can get them um and they are perfect for
earrings just like the perfect size and
I'm going to be using the beads from
February's creative Soul I'm going be
using the thread from from February
creative soul and a few other things
that I'll have out are things like
beading needle um toward the end I'm
going to be using an ear wire and jump
rings and then some tools to do that
stuff with but in general you'll just
need that and some thread scissors and
that's everything you need um let's dive
into how to make these gorgeous
earrings to get started let's put 10
warps onto our micro tiny wisdom Warrior
the earring
Loom and so you're going to want to
start
with
the and sorry my thread's getting right
down to the middle here but you're going
to want to start with an end from
working from your spool and go ahead and
tie a double
knot onto the little Notch that you see
there so there's our double knot and now
we're just going to bring our spool side
thread underneath and up and through the
Combs on the
loom down across the bottom
Combs and you want to cross underneath
the back comb here and if you use your
thumbnail or your fingernail you can
kind of guide the thread up through the
next
comb and catch the next one here
just like
that and you'll repeat that on this
side just going to get that tail thread
out of the way
there and so just carry on like that
until you have a total of 10 warp
threads and once you've got your 10 10
warp threads bring that extra thread
over and wrap it around a few
times and then I'm going to go ahead and
tie a double knot onto that Notch and
the best way to do that is either use
your tail thread now I already trimmed
my tail thread because it was getting in
the way you can use your tail thread to
tie to in fact I usually do that but
this time for some reason I trimmed it
um but what I'm going to do here is just
cut the
bread free there and bring it up through
that Loop that I'm
holding there we go and I might repeat
that one more time
there we go so whichever way you get
there just get those 10 warps on there
and you'll need to tie the extra thread
that you've got I'm going to trim that
tail again just because it really does
tend to get in the way while you're
working all right so let's get started
with our
looming all right and so I've got my
loom warped with 10 warps and I've got
my beads ready to start looming I've put
them onto my mat in order of the pattern
um go ahead and bring a wingspan of
thread um off of the spool and cut it
and thread your needle a wingspan about
65 in or so and then bring your needle
underneath the warp
threads and the warp threads are just
the ones here on the loom and the thread
that we're working with here is often
referred to as the weft thread so I'm
going to string 2 a this is just the
first row of the pattern in this
case but so there's my first
row stringing that down and then just
for the first row just to get started
what I usually do is bring the needle
back through those beads as a way to
stabilize them while I work them
underneath they should sit nice and
tightly
there and then go ahead and work work
with your ey side to prevent puncturing
these warp threads bring your needle
back through the be
staying above the warps on this return
trip and then go ahead and do a slide
test you can use a business card a bead
scooper just make sure you can slide
it and so this is my tail thread here
and I would recommend leaving about
seven inches for
that let's do the next row together and
bring your needle under the
warps and I'm going a string
the next
row there we
go slide that
down and just bring that needle back
through
through all
right so that's how how you do the the
looming part of this
design if for any reason you feel like
your tension on your warp threads is too
loose um you can tighten it up using the
tassel maker if you bring the tassel
maker
under and prop it up on the side it
looks like this from the side
that can make your warps tighter if you
feel like it needs it I didn't feel like
this one needed it as much but I often
do feel like I need to add that so I
just wanted to share that that's an
option and so I'm going to complete the
pattern here and then we'll do the next
steps
together all right and so here is the
finished loomed piece and it works up
really quickly because it's just a nice
little short
pattern and so we're just going to
remove it from the loom
you will need to trim the knot part just
the knot part don't cut the other
threads but just this part that is
knotted here on the
side and free
that looks like I just need to free this
one other little side here it's my first
one there we
go so when you do that when you cut the
knot essentially what it will do is it
will free these first two sides for you
so this one and that one and then to
remove the others just take your
thumbnail and push those threads off of
the
comb it'll just fall off the other
side and now you'll have your beautiful
Loom piece
here and it doesn't really have a front
or a back or a top or a
bottom um so whichever direction you'd
like to lay it out is fine and we're
just going to pull in the warp threads
it won't take very long and since we
worked with the eye of our needle it
should work really well so usually what
I do is I'll start with some chain no
pliers when the threads are really short
sometimes you don't need it sometimes
you can just pull with your fingers show
you what I mean so just pulling yeah
actually it's it's nice and
loose but when they're short down here
like this when you have to kind of get
your fingers in it's easier with a pair
of pliers to just
pull so you want to
start with One Direction so in this case
I went and I pulled the up
Direction and so my next one is to pull
down so now I'm going to pull up and
we're going to do this all the way to
the end and as you work this the loops
will get longer and they might try to
pull their friends along so you have to
help read the other Loops from it so you
just want to isolate one Loop like
that and when you pull it will just hug
the bottom of that
bead and so on so just keep going like
that until you've pulled in all of your
warps all right so we've got all of
those warps pulled in I'm going to bring
my camera down a little bit here so that
you got a little bit better view so
we're starting to do some tiny things um
on your design currently you're going to
have two long strands and two short ones
you can start by weaving in the two
short
ones and you may not need both of the
long ones but I keep them till the end
just in case um because sometimes you
might have a little more or less we left
than I perh perhaps have but for sure
you're going to have a really long warp
strand oh and what I'm doing here is um
so this thread was the tail of our WFT
thread the thread we started looming
with and it's exiting from a bead that's
how you can tell and you can see how
it's kind of on one side of the warp
what I like to do to get started weaving
in is I'll jump over that warp and go
back through the bead and that way I
don't lose that
row and so what you see here is it's
about to hug that
thread so just like
that and so that's what we're going
for and then you can just weave by going
under the weft threads in the
piece so just go
underneath go through some
beads and repeat that about once or
twice more and then trim your
thread all right and so my other short
strand is a warp strand it's the very
first one that I pulled and so it ended
up remaining pretty short all right so
it just thread that thread the needle
with the the remaining warp thre you can
see it's pretty short so but it is a
warp strand meaning it is actually the
Strand that is running all along
here so we can't go back through a bead
or what will happen is it will loosen
this top row so what you want to do is
go over the edge bead and then through
the rest of the
row or at least through some of those
beads in that row I usually
go through a few and then start doing
that same process for weaving in which
is where you just kind of pick up one
two just try to grab three of those
little
ws and always pretty gentle tension with
this um this type of weaving in go
through a few beads in the
row and repeat that
and then go ahead and trim
that and so now what we have left are
these pretty long strands this is my
leftover warp and it's it's got some
pretty good length on it which will
probably more than be enough for my
Fringe I'm going to set it aside for now
I've still got my needle on my left and
I'm going to bring that into the work
here and use it to create the loop for
our ear wire and this is kind of a
creative way to do it it's a hidden Loop
it sits on the back and it just kind of
tucks away a little jump ring that you
can attach your ear wire to and so from
the front as you're wearing the earring
all you see is this little peak of metal
and so that's kind of a cool look right
let me show you how to do it you want to
basically take the if you're working
with your W you will need to jump over
the warp and go back into the
row if it's a warp jump over the bead
and go into the row
and in either case bring your thread to
exit from one of the three beads I kind
of just I overshoot the first one and
then go
to the uh further further away of the
three that are in the center we're going
to square stitch two three sorry three
rows onto those three and I just match
the colors so let me pull this away
really
quick your thread will be exiting from
that bead and just matching the color go
ahead and pick up a color
B and note that your thread's coming out
of the position kind of on top of the
bead so I'm going to pick up another
bead and go through it from the
bottom which just is going in a circle
right and so this is square stitch it's
going to sit
it's going to sit like that for a minute
not super tight yet but don't sweat
that and go back through that
bead all right and now pick up another
bead I'm matching the color C that it's
adjacent
to and then go through that bead
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from the side that's toward you going
out away from
you see it's going to sit just like that
and there we go and one more we're going
to match color B
again and just make sure that thread
stays on the top
side and so far we've got that now
reinforce it by going back
through all three of those beads right
there and then go ahead and go through
these three
again and that completes a row of square
stitch let's do that again two more
times to create our little fold over
button that we're going to use for
putting our ear wire
on so again I just grabbed a color B
looped through the bead that's adjacent
to it here's a color C
going just through that
bead and up through the
bead color
B down through just the
be pull tight and then head up through
that color
B
oops there you go it's going to try to
pull in all of its friends they always
do
that so there's another row of square
stitch complete go ahead and reinforce
that go through all
three and go through the three you just
add
in let's repeat that one more
time there's
one and
here's
two so you see we just Loop through keep
that keep that thread top
side so it doesn't hug the entire um
little section we're creating
right and there we go another row just
like that Loop
through and loop
through okay and so this design doesn't
have a front or a back so really doesn't
matter which side you choose can just
fold it
over I think I'll fold over this
[Music]
way so this will now become the back
side of the
earring and once you do this step you've
kind of identified which is the reverse
side of it and then what you'll want to
do to connect it here at the back is
notice how we created three rows so
we're just going to count down three
rows one two 3 and I'm going to go
through the first bead that corresponds
with the center three in that
row pull that
tight and now go back
through that bead so you see we're
Square stitching again but we're
treating the new
bead as this one we created so that
joins those two that go back through
this bead and Carry On Through the next
one
and now we're just going to go through
the C color C in the
middle and then head back
through the middle bead and the next
one pull tight keep that tail out of the
way there we go and now last but not
least we'll just join this Edge
bead and bring it through just that
one so now you've connected that section
back there you see how you can get a
jump ring through that pretty cool
reinforce that one time by going through
that
row and going through this
row all
right and from here go through another
bead or
two I got through
one and weave in here on the reverse
side using the same method we were using
before where you just pick up a few left
thread I usually go through three rows
like that make a turn head through a
few I hit my L my lamp above
me there we
go and so just like
that and given how how much this is
supporting I might do that one more
time now I have a lot of thread left
here on this strand
so what I might do with this strand is I
might take it down to the bottom so let
me show show you where we're going
next the next thing we're going to do is
with whichever strand you have that's
long so I'm currently weaving in
somewhere around here I'm going to just
bring it down here and we're going to
add Fringe strands on the bottom
center five of
them so you'll have one two three four
five and so that's going to leave these
two Edge ones
unworked for this cool little almost
tassel looking
centered little thing of
Fringe so let's carry on and bring the
thread down to meet
that all right and so I've just used
that weft traveling method to bring my
thread down
here and ignoring the first two beads of
the row you want to go through the next
one in from The Edge so the third in
from either Edge doesn't matter which
one you start and now we're going to
string a fringe pattern and that Fringe
pattern is it's pretty much up to you if
you like what I did I started with five
of the color B and that's the color I'm
exiting and then I did three color C and
this will all be in the pattern too and
then I went one two one two with colors
d and
e and then I decided for three of the
bright hot pink color a as the middle
and then just string that out in
Reverse to meet the um make the pattern
symmetrical so far so good and then
we're going to put five color B at the
bottom and here's how to do that little
that little kind of I did this for a
weight it's kind of like a little
blossom but so I see how I've got five
here the bottom what I'm going to do now
is I'm going to pick up three more color
B two and three and I'm going to skip
the last three of those
five and then I'm going to go back
through all of those I'm and to bring my
thread all the way up to meet the
work and try not to skip any of those
beads that you're going
through there we go
and just kind of you know get the
tension right and then you'll notice how
when we started this Fring strand we
were exiting from this side of that
third bead we went through it so now all
you got to do is go through that third
bead from the opposite
side and when you do
that it's going to hug that bottom bead
with the Fring Strand and in the same
motion go ahead and Carry On Through the
next bead in your row
and so you see it's just going to hug
that Center you can almost kind of see
it if I loosen the tension that's the
goal with every bead now that we're
going to be hugging we're going to
string a strand and then come back
through in the top Direction and head
through the next
one so carry on like that when we get to
the middle strand the pattern is just a
little bit of reversed it'll be in your
pattern but I just matched the color I
was exiting and just swapped color C for
color B
all right and so I've gotten down to my
last little set
here let's head back through all of
those and usually when I reach the work
here at the top I'll pull The Fringe
through but then what I'll do before I
go through the bead is just kind of hold
everything tight get it to hug the
bottom of that bead and then again I'm
going to go through that bead from the
opposite direction that the thread is
exitting so that it will hug
it and now my Fringe is done so all I
have left to do is weave in and then put
our earring Hardware onto the top of the
earring all right so let's get some
chain nose pliers and um I have a jump
ring here that I think is about 6 millim
it's just from my stash any any jump
ring is fine in fact 8 mm 6 mm I think
the only thing that wouldn't work is if
you want smaller like 4 MIM would
probably be too small but just test it
you'll have something and go ahead and
bring
your bring your jump
ring through that Loop that we've
created and my 6 mm is a tight fit but
it actually is going to look really cool
and I recall when I was setting up my
last
one maybe switching sides to kind of get
it around the thread you don't want it
to poke the thread just be careful of
that
get it to come
through so you see I've got it through
like
that if you're working with 6 mm it's
like the tightest fit um but the result
is really neat looking so kind of worth
it and I'm just going to wiggle these
and work them so that they're nice and
connected and there you see what happens
it just looks like it's part of the top
of the earring which I really dig and
I'm just going to open the ear
wire and pop that
on
oops there we
go so there's our super sassy Earrings
made with our February palette from
creative Soul or
julum all right let's see how these look
so I am trying them on for the first
time let see how they
look and apologies all my my bright
lights are in the way here but all right
so these are so cool and these are going
to become some of my new favorites I say
that every time I make an earring and
put them on but I mean it every time
they're so pretty they're so cute so um
yeah I'm just going to wear these rest
of the day why not they kind of match
what I'm weing so yeah I hope you loved
this project I hope that you will um
continue to do your creative Soul uh
tutorials we're going to be releasing
march here pretty quick I've already
started on the March content and um I
think you're going to love it so until
then Happy looming