Soutache earrings with feathers and PureCrystal crystals

How to make soutache earrings?

How to make soutache earrings?

You are currently looking for elegant, original and unique earrings? Discover this tutorial made in the context of our PureCrystal contest and details step by step the realization of earrings in soutache . Do not be afraid to get started: with a little practice, you will become an expert on the soutache!

For beginners, you probably wonder: but what is the soutache ? It is a narrow, flat, braided and textured strip which is traditionally found in the haberdashery and trimmings department. It originally decorated clothes or offal days. Today, she makes her big COME BACK thanks to the trend of textile jewelery and Bead Embroidery. In this tutorial, we propose you to use the soutache of French manufacture, pleasant to work thanks to its good behavior. It is ideal for making embroidered jewelry!

A big thank you to Diana , one of our winners, for sharing her tutorial!

Step 1
Let's start with the central part of our first earring. Take the silver frame, cut 10 cm of mustard shiri soutache and stick it with a few drops of glue. Wait a few minutes, the time that the glue takes. Then, go with the needle and the thread between the holes of the frame and the shiri southe to sew them.

On the upper part of the frame, sew the two pieces of shiri soutache and then take a 3 mm fuchsia PureCrystal crystal spinning top by sewing it with a shiri soutache strand passing between the hole of the nearest Eternity Frame. Turn the shiri mustard southerner in a circle towards the back of the room and cut the soutache you have left. Repeat to make the opposite part.

2nd step
Cut 10 cm soutache shiri teal. Glue it on the mustard soutache on the base of the silver frame (Eternity Frame) to the middle of it. Wait a few minutes until the glue dries and then sew it through the holes in the frame.
Take a pink 9/0 silver seed and sew it with a shiri teal southe. Pass the soutache to the back of the piece around the rock and sew it to the back of the room. Cut the soutache you have left. Repeat to make the opposite part.
Then take the rhinestone chain and cut it with 10 squares of rhinestones. Glue the piece to the shiri teal soutache and sew it through the holes in the Eternity Frame ring.

Step 3
Cut two pieces of Fuchsia soutache of ten centimeters then stick them to the chain of rhinestones. Wait a few minutes for the glue to dry and sew them both from the back, to the round portions of the soutache that you already made in step 2. Take a silver 8/0 seed and sew it to both soutache of fuchsia color. Pass them to the back around the rockery and cut the strands of soutache you have left. Repeat to make the opposite part.

Step 4
Take a PureCrystal topaz shuttle, 5 centimeters of southerly shiri teal and stick the soutache around the shuttle. Sew the soutache at the top of the shuttle. Repeat this instruction twice, then sew the two pieces by passing the needle and the thread through the central part of the soutache strands. Take a 8 mm crystal mint green cabochon, cut 5 cm of mustard shiri soutache and repeat the previous step you made for the PureCrystal topaz shuttle.

Step 5
Sew together the shuttles and the PureCrystal cabochon and sew them in the back part of the piece. Take a Swarovksi 4mm chrysolite crystal top and sew it on the back of the piece by placing it in front of the PureCrystal crystal mint green. Pass the thread twice.
Thread 3 silver 11/0 seed beads, sew them to soutache braids by handing them all and turn them over, passing the needle and the thread closest to the first rock. Repeat this process 4 times.

Step 6
Choose a fuchsia feather and an orange feather. Glue them together, then glue both on the back of the room. Take a fuchsia spinning top and an 11/0 silver seed, then bend them through the center hole of the mounting ring. Reassemble with the needle and only go through the router. Repeat this twice.

Step 7
Take a 8mm crystal pink crystal peony cabochon and cut 5 centimeters of shiri teal soutache. Glue and sew them then take an 8/0 silver rockery. Sew it to the soutache and put the soutache braid at the back of the room around the rockery. Repeat to make the opposite part.

Sew a 4 mm chrysolite top as you did in step 4. Join the central part of the earring with it by casting the two parts of the back through the soutache braids. Glue the upper part of the earring with a little glue. Wait 1 hour for the glue to take time.

Step 8
Cut a square piece of ultra suede, about 1.5 x 1.5 centimeters and stick it on the back part of the earring at the clasp. Let dry and cut the ends.

Step 9  
Cut another piece of ultra suede, enough to cover the middle part of the earring, stick it with some glue. Wait a little for it to be dry then cut the ends, paying attention with the empty central part.

Repeat all these steps to make the second pair of earrings.

Tadam! You earrings are finished! They are beautiful, are not they? As you know, we like to see what you achieve through the tutorials offered on Perles & Co. So do not hesitate to send us photos of your creations on our Facebook page or to tag us on Instagram#perlesandco .

NB: Attention, the list of products below is not completely in conformity with the picture of presentation. For stock reasons, some products in this tutorial have been replaced by equivalents. The southerner shiri velvet mustard color has been replaced by the light pink color.