Nugget Hoop Earrings

Skill Level: Beginner/All

Technique: Earrings

These earrings are as quick to sell, as they are to make, and great low priced items for craft shows!

Materials

• 2 4" lengths of 18 Gauge Round Soft Wire
• 2 Agate or Other Gemstone Nugget Bead
• 4 5mm x 4mm Bali Spacers

Tools

• Chain Nose Pliers
• Round Nose Pliers
• Wire Cutters
• Ruler
• Ring Mandrel
• Extra Fine Point Marker

Instructions

1. Do not straighten first, just cut two pieces of 18g round soft wire, each 4-inches long. Use round-nose pliers to make a loop at one end of each wire, working against the curve.
   
   

2. On the opposite end of each wire, measure and mark at ½- inch.
   
   

3. Thread a chosen selection of beads onto each wire and use a round forming item to shape each into a hoop until the marked segment meets the bottom of the first loop made, (on a ring mandrel use size 7).
   
   

4. Use chain-nose pliers to make a 90° angle on the marked wire where it meets the first loop; continue to use this wire to wrap around the opposite, closing the hoop shape under the main loop; trim and then flatten the trimmed end.
   
   
   
   
   

5. Repeat step 4 on the other earring, wrapping in the opposite direction; add ear wires.
   
   

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