It's almost Spring earrings

 It's almost spring..the daffodils are in bloom, the Koel has arrived from Malaysia to keep us up all night and I have a brand new blog with a quick tutorial for an easy pair of 'almost spring' earrings. Let's get started!

The materials are 2 large hammered copper rings, 6 flower beads (I ended up using 8 in my earrings), 2 jump rings (either 4mm or 6mm, depending on whether you add the extra flower), 2 earring hooks &22g artistic wire (not pictured). 

Cut 8cm of wire and make a spiral. Put your round nose pliers at the tip of the wire and twist it around. Once the initial spiral is made you can your fingers, or 2 pairs of pliers for an ultra neat spiral. Go around maybe 2 and a half times, make it around the same size as the base of your flower bead. I had to undo a bit of my spiral.

 This next bit is a little tricky, get the wire end and put it through the flower bead, then try to centre the flower. It won't sit straight as the wire is coming from the side. Once it's on, using chain nose pliers bend the wire 90 degrees, leaving a little bit of wire above the bead. You can straighten the spiral up against the base of the bead. 22g wire is very bendy, forgiving stuff. Unless you scratch the colour off, that's a pain. But practice will take care of that. Make a really long wired chain necklace & by the end you'll be a master. But back to the earrings.

 Make a loop, moving your round nose pliers in a circle, it's a wrist movement. Practice, and Youtube will help. Straighten this loop up now.

Once the loop is straight, lift it up with your chain nose pliers and insert the copper ring. Lifting the loop means it won't pull of shape.

Now you are in a position to finish the wrapped loop, I did mine with my fingers to avoid scratching the purple wire. Go round and round, up and down, then cut the remaining wire, if you have any. Using 8cm I didn't have much left over.  

Repeat twice more, so you have 3 flowers dangling off your metal ring, then open a 4mm jump ring the same way you opened the loop of the wire and insert the metal ring and an earring hook. I thought my earrings looked a little plain so I added another flower dangle, ones I had made previously when I'd been practicing a lot more frequently! To accommodate the extra flower dangle I used a 6mm jump ring. Repeat in full to make a 2nd earring, now you have brand new earrings for spring!

My complete earrings!