Fire Water Earrings: A truly Elemental sparking pair of earrings: *Fire & Water*
Fire & Water Earrings (CH0246 – N/A)
Made with the highest quality of Swarovski stones, Fire & Water celebrates the elements of Fire and Water in their gloriously sparkling depths of tantalizing blues and deep mesmerizing fires of the reds.
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The water elements calls to the soothing love of a woman’s heart and the fire calls to the depth of fire in her soul.
Materials:
- Swarovski #1122 Round Stone Rivoli (12mm- Light Siam, 16mm – Aquamarine)
- Swarovski #5328 XILION bicone crystal beads (Light Siam, Indicolite – 3mm)
- Miyuki seed beads 11/0 & 15/0
- all findings are lead and nickel free
Care:
This unique piece of jewelry will last many many years with appropriate gentle care. Keep in own box/case, separate from other pieces of items (jewelry) that may scratch or entangle with it. Keep clear of harsh abrasives and unnecessary soaking in water.
Status: Sold (0tg-z69)
Fire Water Earrings – How-To Notes
Here in this mini-tutorial walk through, I am concentrating only on the steps to make the red (Light Siam) rivoli. This process is much for same for making any beaded bezel rivoli in peyote stitch.
Again my work photos are a bit on the darker side as I seem to do most of my beading work by the light of the night.
Thread a ring of beads to fit as closely as possible around the rivoli round stone. (Here I used 24 Miyuki 11/0 seed beads for the 12mm Light Siam, and 38 beads for the 16mm Aquamarine).
Then work a normal (tubular) peyote stitch. In my mind, I count this as 3 rows.
Then the “clincher” row for the back – working a row of peyote stitch with smaller 15/0 seed beads. Pull snug and tight to clinch in the back. (For bigger stones, sometimes I do 2 rows of “clincher” rows with the 15/0 beads).
Then for the front of the rivoli, I built up another row of peyote stitch (using a slightly different colored bead in 11/0). This gives a nice “cup” for the rivoli stone to sit in.
I know the following photo does not show it really well, but this is where you sit the rivoli stone as snugly as you can into the peyote “cup”.
I made 2 rows of “clincher” peyote with the 15/0 seed beads to clinch the front/top and hold the rivoli firmly in place.
Next make the little “star spokes” for decoration around the rim using 15/0 seed beads and Swarovski bicone (Light Siam, 3mm)
Work the “star spokes” all the way round. But remember you will have to leave a space to make a peyote bail/loop.
When the spokes are done, make the bail. Work the bail in peyote stitch. Keep in mind:
1) the number of rows you make to create the bail as you will be duplicating this exactly for the other rivolis.
2) to include a closed ring before you stitch down the bail.
Work the peyote bails as seamlessly as possible, front and back. Weave in extra thread and finish.
That’s it for this handmade earrings. The next photo shows the finished earrings – front and back.
Fire Water Earrings with Swarovski Elements (CH0246 – Sold)
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