Design by Night

Tassels just aren't for ta-tas any more! Make these cute tassel earrings out of inexpensive embroidery floss. A pair will cost you just a few dollars to make. Supplies 2-skeins of 26 feet (8 meters) embroidery floss 2-ear wires 2-jump rings jewelry pliers scissors 2-wooden beads 10 mm or larger, make sure they have a wide enough hole to thread the embroidery floss through card board about 4" x 4"* *you can use something from the recycling bin for the cardboard, such as a cereal or cracker box Using the diagram below make a tassel maker out of cardboard.  Open one of the skeins of floss and cut off one 12" piece and one 24" piece. Take the 12" piece and put it aside. Place the 12" strip in the slits you cut on each side of the cardboard. Using the what is left of the open skein of embroidery floss, take the end and hold it with your thumb at the bottom of the cardboard. Start wrapping the floss around the cardboard un...

So I am obviously stuck on using the cotton scrap fabric that I have since several of my last tutorials use this fabric. Again, this is the perfect quick and easy scrap fabric tutorial and I keep seeing these fabric covered button earrings in stores for around $20 but you can make these for much less. If you are willing to put a little work into them, the supplies to make these don't cost more than $2. Supplies: Cover Button Starter Kit Size 30 (3/4 inch) FLAT BACKS (kits usually include a tool, button cover fronts and backs), I ordered these and the earring backs from Cover Button City on Etsy fabric scraps (approx. 6" square) scissors post earrings with flat pad (no hole), size 6mm with ear nut E-6000 glue Cut a fabric twice the diameter of your button. Since we are using .75" buttons the diameter of the circle should be 3". If you decide to make smaller or larger buttons, change the diameter accordingly With the wrong side up, center the fabric in the button...

In October I posted a tutorial to make leather earrings . Well for Christmas I revisited this craft and made a few other designs for a few people at my work. This is one of my favorite tutorials because they are so easy to make and the earrings are light and easy to wear. I liked the new designs so much I thought I would share the pattern for them. To view the full set of instructions on how to make these leather earrings, click here . To make one of the two pairs shown, download and print the updated pattern below (the bottom row are the new designs):