Beaded Tapestry Earrings by Carol Ventura

Beaded Tapestry Earrings

Crochet
January 2006
Champion Silk Thread from Gudebrod
Thread ?
15 stitches and 13 rows = 1 inch
in tapestry crochet rounds
1.5 mm
90 - 180 yards (82 - 165 m)
0.5" x 1.5"
US
English

Yarn/thread information:
Champion Silk Thread from Gudebrod
size FFF - equivalent to size 5 cotton thread
100% silk, 0.5 oz./14 g; 92 yds/84 m; fingering weight
1 spool #245 Royal Blue - main color
1 spool #0471 Ivory - contrasting color

Additional notions:
size 11/0 Delica beads: 252 of Ocean Blue and 504 of silver-lined Silver
2 medium twisted beading needles
two 4x3 mm oval sterling jump rings
two sterling silver earwires
contrasting thread

Finished size: each earring is 0.5” x 1.5”

Earrings are worked in a spiral, rather than concentric rings - there are no joins at the ends of rounds.