Project - Oiseaux de nuit
Voluminous earrings made of memory wire rings, feather bouquets and rhinestone chain.
Material
- 4 seed beads 11/0, yellow silver lined
- 4 Stellaris crystal beads, bicone 4 mm, citrine AB
- 16 round metal beads, 2.4 mm, silver
- 8 round metal beads, 4 mm, silver
- 8 round metal beads, 5 mm, silver
- 18 metal “U” connectors, 2x8 mm, silver
- 4 rhinestone chain connectors, 3.5mm, silver
- 28 metal jump rings, 4 mm, silver
- 2 earring hooks, silver
- ± 2 rounds steel memory wire for bracelet, 0.6x70 mm
- 18 hen feathers, pink
- 36 hen feathers, turquoise
- 12 cm of 2.5mm metal rolo chain, silver
- 22 cm of 3.5mm rhinestone chain, citrine and silver
- 4 round plastic miracle beads, 4 mm, fuchsia
- 2 round plastic miracle beads, 8 mm, aquamarine
- 2 round plastic miracle beads, 8 mm, electric blue
Tools
- 2 chain nose pliers
- Cutter pliers
- G-S hypo glue
- Memory wire cutter pliers
- Round nose pliers
- Ruler
- Scissor
Making feather bouquets
Start by making feather bouquets. For a pair of earrings, you will need 12 turquoise feather bouquets and 6 pink feather bouquets.
Choose 3 feathers and layer them so as for their ends to be even. The turquoise feathers must measure from 6.5 to 7 cm and the pink feathers must measure from 7.5 to 8 cm. Starting from the ends, measure and cut any excess feather by keeping the ends.
Repeat this step until you are done making all the feather bouquets.
Making feather pendants
Measure and cut a 2 cm section of rolo chain. Attach 3 feather bouquets to the chain using 4 mm jump rings. Place the bouquets on the chain as illustrated, starting from the extremity then leaving 2 empty links between each bouquet. At the other extremity of the chain, place another 4 mm jump ring.
Repeat this step to get a total of 6 feather pendants, 4 turquoise colored and 2 pink colored ones.
Tip :Open and close the jump rings using 2 chain nose pliers.