With Beads! The Free Carrie Earrings Crochet Pattern
Happy Tuesday! How are you this week? Me, I’m well, pretty much the same as I always am. For this week’s post I decided to reach in my bag of tricks and pull out a design that I made a couple years ago. In fact, I asked on Facebook if anyone wanted the pattern and it went over well… So, here it is! And the pattern has a new name, the Carrie Earrings. As always, I hope you like this pattern and I’ve got another idea for next week too.
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Materials:
- 2.25mm Steel Hook
- Size 10 crochet thread
- Less than 1 oz.
- I used Aunt Lydia’s crochet thread
- Needle that will weave in your ends
- Fabric stiffener (optional)
- Jump rings
- Metal french hooks
- Jewelry pliers
- Seed beads
Gauge: Not critical
Terms/ stitches used:
- Magic circle
- St: stitch
- Ch: chain
- Sc: single crochet
- Hdc: half double crochet
- Dc: double crochet
- Dc cluster: double crochet cluster (explained below)
Notes:
- Dc cluster: yarn over, insert your hook into the specified stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, insert into the same specified stitch, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through 2 loops, yarn over, pull through the final 3 loops on the hook.
- This pattern is worked in the round with a slip st into the first st following the last.
- You’ll need to know how to work with beads for this pattern.
- You’re going to need to know how to create a magic circle for this pattern.
Finished measurements:
Height & width: 1.75″ (without findings)
Carrie Earrings Pattern instructions
Note: string 12 beads on your thread before you begin the pattern.
Row 1: Create a magic circle, ch 2 and dc (these 2 things count as the first dc cluster), ch 2, *dc cluster into the magic circle, ch 2,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st to secure – 6 dc clusters, 6 ch-2 spaces
Row 2: Ch 1, slip st into the next ch-2 space, ch 1, sc 4 times into the same ch-2 space, ch 1, skip the next dc cluster, *sc 4 times into the next ch-2 space, ch 1, skip the next dc cluster,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st to secure – 24 scs, 6 ch-1 spaces
Row 3: Ch 3 (counts as a dc here), ch 1 with a bead, ch 1, skip the next 2 scs, dc around the next sc into the ch-2 space from row 2, ch 1 with a bead, ch 1, skip the next sc, dc into the next ch-1 space, *ch 1 with a bead, ch 1, skip the next 2 scs, dc around the next sc into the ch-2 space from row 2, ch 1 with a bead, ch 1, skip the next sc, dc into the next ch-1 space,* repeat from * to * 3 more times, ch 1 with a bead, ch 1, skip the next 2 scs, dc around the next sc into the ch-2 space from row 2, ch 1 with a bead, ch 1, skip the next sc, slip st into the top of the first ch-3 – 12 dcs, 12 ch-1 w/ a bead, 12 ch-1 spaces
Row 4: Ch 4, skip the next ch-1 w/ a bead, hdc 4 times into the next ch-1 space, slip st into the next dc, *ch 4, skip the next ch-1 w/ a bead, hdc 4 times into the next ch-1 space, slip st into the next dc,* repeat from * t0 * 10 more times, slip st into the same st a join to secure – 48 hdcs, 12 ch-4 spaces
Fasten off, weave in your ends.
Finishing:
Once each earring is done, use fabric stiffener to harden your earrings, which I like to dilute with water and apply with a soft paint brush. Once both earrings are dried, usually overnight for me, use your jewelry pliers to attach jump rings to your earrings. I use one of the ch-4 spaces from row 4 to attach the findings to the earring. I like to use 2 jump rings and a french hook for a little length and dangly-ness.
So, there it is! I hope you like the Carrie Earrings pattern. It’s pretty easy, but has a lot of movement and openess, which I love. I hope you have fun making a bunch!
See you next week. 😀
This post is linked to Linky Ladies’ Community Link Party #53, and Hookin’ on Hump Day #119.
Thank you <3
I might have to give these a go!
These look lovely, & I’d love to give them a try, but no matter how many tutorials I look at, I’ve never been able to get the hang of the magic circle, so I always have to create my starting circles by making (however many are needed) chain stitches & then joining with a slip stitch to the first chain stitch. For this particular project, how many chains would you recommend?
Hi! For the Carrie Earrings instead of using a magic circle you could ch 3 (which would count as your first ch-2 and the magic circle), Dc into the ch first ch (the ch-2 and dc would count as your first dc cluster), then *dc cluster into the 1st ch, ch 2,* repeat from * to * 4 more times, slip st into the first st to secure – 6 dc clusters, 6 ch-2 spaces
I think that should work out the same as it would if you used a magic circle.