EARRINGS "AZTEC SUN"

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In this master class you can make bright earrings that will remind you of summer days, and in cloudy weather they will cheer you up.
Materials and tools:
- Japanese "tube" beads Miyuki Delica or Toho Treasures 11 in size 4 colors: red, orange, yellow and white;
- the needle for beadwork is not thicker than size 12;
- a thread for beadwork, for example, FireLine, Nymo and others;
- scissors or blade;
- shvenzy;
- a flat container for beads with sides.

Working process:
During operation, we need to carefully monitor the layout of colors.

It is most convenient to print it and cross out the woven rows. We also pay attention to the size of the beads - even in Japanese it is very rare, but there are those that do not correspond in size to the others. We collect beads for the central (main) row of catkins starting with 2 white ones - it should be located approximately in the middle of the working thread. Since the mosaic technique used in this work requires an even number of rows, and in the diagram it is odd, we add the last horizontal row later.

It is more convenient to weave when the beads on the next row are woven from top to bottom, so the work will be constantly turned over.

It is important not to confuse the rows in the diagram.

So, in the upper part of the thread are white and red beads. We put on another white bead and go through the red one from the previous row.

We tighten the thread, pick up another white bead and go through the white bead - the 4th from the top in the initial row.

In the same way we finish the entire row. We get a "mosaic", in each row of which beads are 2 times less than in the central one. We check the tension of the thread along the entire row - the beads should lie tightly. Turn over the weaving so that the thread coming out of the white bead of the main row is again at the top.

Do not be alarmed if the row is slightly curved - since the second side of the thread is not fixed, at the beginning of weaving the fabric "plays" a little. Further ranks will consolidate it and the curvature will go away. We collect the orange bead and pass the thread into the orange bead of the previous row above the main one.

Tighten the thread and in the same way we collect the entire row.

Turn the canvas over again.

Similarly, weave all the rows before the canvas begins to taper. To bring the thread into the bead of the row we just woven, we pass the needle first through the neighboring bead from the previous lower row, and from it into the second bead from the one where weaving should continue.

Tighten the thread, insert the needle into the bead next to the one from where weaving should continue, and then into the right one for weaving, tighten.

The thread needs to be tightened a little stronger than before - so that it disappears between the beads. However, this must be done carefully so as not to break it. Now the thread comes out of the desired bead and weaving can continue. The narrowing of each next row is done in the same way until this side of the earring is finished with 1 bead. If the thread remains long enough, you can leave it so that then weave it the missing extreme row of earrings. If the thread is short, then you need to hide it, passing several times through the previous rows. The second side of the fabric is also woven, but when the main part of the earring is completed, the thread is displayed through the white bead of the previous row to attach the earwig. However, at first it is better to finish the missing extreme row of the canvas. The thread to start work should come out of the first white bead of the last, at the moment row. So that the next row is shifted by half the beads, we pass the needle under the threads, fastening the extreme beads of the existing row and tighten - now, when tensioned, the thread is between them.

We collect 2 white beads and insert a needle under the thread between the 2nd and 3rd beads of the edge row.

Then we pass the needle through the 2nd bead in the opposite direction and tighten the thread.

We collect another white bead, draw a needle under the thread between the 3rd and 4th of the previous row, and return it through the dialed.

Similarly, we finish the entire row. Let us return to the last corner of the earring, where the schwenz will be attached. The thread with us should come out of the penultimate row of white beads. We string another 5 pieces and a shvenza and insert the needle into the bead from the other edge of the penultimate row. We should get a loop of 5 beads and earrings holding on to the base of 3 beads of the earring canvas.

Tighten and for reliability, we again go through the beads of the base and the loop itself. We fix the thread and hide its tip in other beads of the canvas.