How to Make Beaded Snowflake Earrings

Even though it's not winter yet, I made these super cute beaded snowflake earrings the other day.  They really sparkle and catch the light.  I thought I would share this free tutorial with you so you can make some of your very own.  (Excuse my quickly made diagrams, hopefully you can follow them easily!)

Crystal Snowflake Earring Materials

- 24 4mm crystal bicone beads

- 36 size 13/0 or 15/0 glass seed beads

- Fishing line or beading thread

- Glue (if using fishing line)

- 2 earwires

 1) Cut 20" of thread/fishing line.  Add 6 seed beads and pass the thread back through the first bead to make a loop. Make sure that you leave a thread tail that is a few inches long.

2) Add 1 bicone, 1 seed bead, 1 bicone, 1 seed bead and 1 bicone.  Sew back through the bead you first came out of in the central loop.  Then sew through the next seed bead in the central loop.

3) Add 1 bicone, 1 seed bead, 1 bicone and 1 seed bead.  Sew down through the bicone that makes up the right side of the outer loop in Step 2.  Sew through the seed bead you were coming out of at the beginning of this step.  Sew through the next seed bead in the central loop.

4) Repeat Step 3 more times.


5) Sew through the next seed bead in the central loop, up through the bicone that makes the left side of the loop you added in Step 2. 

6) Add 1 seed bead, 1 bicone and one seed bead.  Sew down through the bicone on the opposite side of the gap and through the seed bead you first passed through in Step 5. 

7) Weave both your thread ends to the outside of the snowflake.

8) Take the longer thread end and do a complete circle around the outside of the snowflake passing through the seed beads and bicones.  (You should go through 2 seed beads and then 1 bicone repeatedly).  At one point in between 2 seed beads, sew your thread through your ear wire loop and then continue on.

9) Once you return to the other thread end, tie a secure knot.  If I'm using fishing line, I like to add a tiny drop of epoxy onto the knot as a back up.  Wait for the glue to dry (if you added glue) and then snip the ends as close to the knot as possible.