Creating Rococo Rose Earrings with Bead Embroidery

I want to tell you and show you how you can make very gentle spring earrings with embroidered Rococo roses and Swarovski crystals in the style of Marie Antoinette with your own hands.

Materials:

  • rough natural linen
  • fusible webbing
  • eco-leather
  • thick cardboard
  • needles for embroidery
  • PVA glue
  • brush
  • Moment Crystal glue
  • pencil
  • nylon yarn
  • monofilament
  • sharp scissors
  • Swarovski Rivoli ovals, 18.0 x 13.5, Crystal Summer Blue colour
  • Swarovski pearls, 3 mm, 4 mm, 5 mm, 6 mm
  • Japanese satin Delica seed beads
  • Japanese Golden seed beads, size 11 and 15
  • metallic Golden thread
  • embroidery floss
  • glass roundels, 2.5 mm
  • soft gold twisted thread
  • ear wires
  • bead caps

First, I drew a few sketches:

First iron the webbing to the linen.

Run a contour of the crystals on the fabric.

Sew satin light blue seed beads with a backstitch.

Pick by two beads. There should be 38 beads total.

Next, perform a mosaic stitch:

Next, weave Row 12 through one (like Row 1).

Make three rows. Apply the crystal. I used a little glue.

When the glue has dried, weave the final row with Golden seed beads size 15. Pull the thread to frame the crystal.

The frame is ready!

The thread is passed through the bottom row, and then on the wrong side of the fabric.

Make roses. First sew three rondelles by 2.5 mm as shown in the photo.

Now use two-thread floss (get four threads when folded) and a thick needle. Make a 'spiral' and tightening it around a bead.

Now take floss of a lighter colour and add some more petals:

At the end, you get this rose:

And two more flowers:

Next, take a Golden metallic thread and embroider leaves:

Use golden beads size 15:

And decorate the bottom. Sew Light Blue Pearls of 5 mm, 4 mm and 3 mm as shown in the photo:

Pass the needle several times.

Add gold twisted thread:

Sew by one Golden bead size 11 to the smallest pearls:

Cut out the finished embroidery with allowances.

Cut out two cardboard bases for earrings. Sew the embroiedry to one:

Cut out eco-leather for the backside. Decorate it with little flowers:

And sew the piece of leather to the blank, embroider the edge, too:

And add a pendant:

Now fasten the earring fixture:

Pass the edge of the earring with the needle and thread several times around this circle: edge — pendant — edge — fastening fixture — edge. Hide the end of the thread.

That's all, you can try it on!

Now the hardest part is to make a second identical earring :)

But if they're not absolutely simmilar (it's impossible to reproduce an embroidery pattern stitch by stitch), don't worry! It's handmade! It will still look great! Mine aren't identical:

There's a second green-and-pink option of the earrings:

And this is me :) However, the earrings aren't seen much well :)

Thank you for reading up to the end! I hope my DIY was useful!

If you have questions — ask, I'll be happy to answer!