pattern for the easy earrings

EASY ONE SHUTTLE EARRINGS – DESIGN FROM IRIS NIEBACH COPYRIGHT 2008

Material: 1 shuttle
2,5m x 2 of thread size 30
30 x 2 seed beads A for the ring tops
46 x 2 seed beads B size 11 for the inner joins
1 x 2 beads in drop form with longitudinal whole (but you can use, what you want, because they will be put in at the end)
earring findings
For loading the beads on the picots and passing thread through the beads use a piece of very thin wire plied and cut in the length of about a sewing needle.

Attention: when the bead size is given, it is important for the shape, where the size is not given, the seed beads can be bigger or smaller, because you put the quantity which fixes on the long picots. You can recognize 11 size beads, putting them on a thread and measuring 1 inch – there have to fit about 17 beads on a length of 1 inch!
Picot a: ¼ inch
Picot b: 5/16 inch (5/8 inch on the picot gauge taken flat)
Picot c: ½ inch

Wind 2,5 m of thread on your shuttle, load the thread with
3B-4A-5B-4A-3B-4A-3B-4A-5B-4A-3B-1A and start working
1) Start with the top ring. Leave a piece of thread (don’t hide the thread ends, they are needed for finishing) and take 3 beads on your ring and work 3ds- picot a-2ds, work picot c and 1ds, load 1A from your shuttle thread and work another ds, then load 6 beads (or the quantity that fixes)on picot c and join to that picot making 2ds-picot a–3ds and close. You must always have a total of 12 ds on your rings.
2) Put 3B between and start the next ring: take 3A on your ring thread on your hand, start with 3ds, join to picot of previous ring, loaded with 3B and make next 3 ds, then take the 3A and 1A from your shuttle and form the rhombus on top of the ring. Continue with 3ds-picot b -3ds and close.
3) Put 5B between and continue next ring: take 3A on your ring thread on your hand, start with 3ds, join to picot of previous ring, loaded with 5B and make next 3 ds, then take the 3A and 1A from your shuttle and form the rhombus on top of the ring. Continue with 3ds- picot a-3ds and close.
4) Put 3B on your thread and make the next ring: take 3A on your ring thread on your hand, start with 3ds, join to picot of previous ring, loaded with 3B and make next 3 ds, then take the 3A and 1A from your shuttle and form the rhombus on top of the ring. Continue with 3ds-picot a -3ds and close.
5) Put 3B on your thread and make the next ring: take 3A on your ring thread on your hand, start with 3ds, join to picot of previous ring, loaded with 3B and make next 3 ds, then take the 3A and 1A from your shuttle and form the rhombus on top of the ring. Continue with 3ds-picot b -3ds and close.
6) Put 5B between and continue next ring: take 3A on your ring thread on your hand, start with 3ds, join to picot of previous ring, loaded with 5B and make next 3 ds, then take the 3A and 1A from your shuttle and form the rhombus on top of the ring. Continue with 3ds- join to picot of first ring, loaded with 3B-3ds and close.
7) Put the last 3B between and knot the two thread ends together. Now load on the thread ends the beads you want to put in the middle. You can use hanging beads and let them hanging loose and hiding the thread ends on back of the top ring or you can use beads with transversal whole and fix them on the opposite side, putting the thread ends through the 3A beads of both sides and hiding them on the back of the adjacent rings.