Earrings

There are a lot of tatted earrings out there on Pinterest, which inspired me to make a few. Most of the ones I’ve been seeing have beads and/or other sparkly things on them. For all that I don’t use beads and baubles much, I do have quite a few stashed. The problem is they are stashed in a location that is hard to get to at the moment. So a quick trip to JoAnn’s was in order to pick up one or two.

It was supposed to be a quick trip to pick up a specific type of dangle bead. If you have shopped at JoAnn’s you know they have discounts on things and, if you are lucky, what you are shopping for is what’s on sale. I was lucky! A large part of the bead section was on sale. My quick trip was not quick.

I ended up buying many more beads than I intended. By a lot! In my defense, at 75% off I figured that now was the time to buy any I even thought I could use at some point in the future.

Surprise, surprise, I went home and actually used the beads I had gone to look for.

Clover Mirror Earrings in purple on wandasknottythoughts
Clover Mirror Earrings in purple

I found this pattern on my computer from a previous online search. I do not know the designer and haven’t seen them anywhere lately on line. If anyone knows the designer, please let me know so that I can give them credit.

I’ve made two pairs of these, one in purple the other in pink. I started a third pair that just didn’t cooperate. I’ll come back to it later.

Then I made another pair of earrings that are much simpler. They also used the same drop beads. I didn’t follow a pattern here, just something uncomplicated and easy. With beads!

Simple drop earrings on wandasknottythoughts
Simple drop earrings

These went much faster. I like using the smaller beads along with the drop.

I also played around with another type of bead. This took a lot more thought to use them.

Bright Hummingbird earrings on wandasknottythoughts
Bright Hummingbird earrings
2 bead humming bird earring on wandasknottythoughts
Hummingbird earring with 2 beads

The first two are very unbalanced due to the weight of the hummingbird bead. I did better with the third one by adding another bead with the flowers, but it is still not balanced correctly. I’m still working on them.

I keep looking through the beads I picked up that day, dreaming of how I can use them. Some are going to be very challenging to use with tatting so I may have to do something else with them. There are so many it will take years to use them all. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, is it?

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7 thoughts on “Earrings”

  1. Wanda, you amaze me you actually used the beads you brought well done, I’m the same you go to buy one thing and often walk away with a lot more.
    I love the first purple pair, love the pattern sorry I don’t know who designed the pattern.
    I also love your hummingbirds, both pairs are lovely, we don’t have hummingbirds in the UK and it’s always lovely to see pictures on the American blogs.

    1. I just read that hummingbirds are a “New World” bird and they are found all over the Americas. We have actually had a few around our house this year. They are so fun to watch.

  2. Oh wow! The hummingbird earrings are absolutely gorgeous! I hope this will became a pattern? I can never find drop beads, must be looking in the wrong place.

    1. Thanks! I was impressed by how well they came out, too! They might eventually make it to a pattern, after I get them where they hang right.

  3. Oh wow! The hummingbird earrings are absolutely gorgeous! I hope this will became a pattern? I can never find drop beads, must be looking in the wrong place.

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