Linda's Crafty Inspirations: Evangelina Earrings - Arula Earrings with Pinch Beads

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Evangelina Earrings - Arula Earrings with Pinch Beads

If you're like me, you've got beads that you're not all that crazy about that are just sort of taking up space in your stash. I'm always on the lookout for ways to use up beads such as Rullas, Pinch beads, O-Beads, Kheops par Puca beads, Crescent beads and other unusually shaped beads. I think that these earrings are a lovely way to use up some of my stash of Rulla beads and Pinch beads.

I blogged about the original "Arula Earrings" tutorial before HERE. I've also blogged a couple of times about my variation where I replaced the Rulla beads with druks. When I saw ADwade's "Evangelina Earrings" in her shop HERE and HERE, I recognized that the design was basically the "Arula" pattern with a few changes. Click HERE to see the original free "Arula Earrings" tutorial.

Here's a photo of one of the original "Arula" earrings from my previous post so that you can compare it with the Pinch bead version.

For the Pinch bead version, you use six Rulla beads instead of eight. Everything else stays pretty much the same except that you need to switch the 15/0 beads with 11/0 beads, and vice versa, in a couple of steps. The Pinch beads replace the druks in the original tutorial. The top loop of my original "Arula" sample earring is my own idea as is the loop on my Pinch bead earrings.