Fuse Bead Pineapple Earrings

 

Fuse beads are a good craft for lots of ages and skills. You can make earrings and keychains out of them, and even hang them on a bulletin board. I designed this cute pinneaple pattern. You can follow the grid in the photos and use a square baseplate thingie for your beads. Fuse beads are pretty light, so you can make larger earrings out of them. I turned my pineapples into earrings, and included directions.

There are two versions of the pinneapple, one is wearing sunglasses and one has eyes. You can just fill the eyes in with yellow if you don't like the look of the eyes. For the yellow, I mainly used one shade, but I put a few beads of a slightly different shade to make it look more like a pineapple.

Pinneapple:

15 green beads

47 yellow beads

6 black beads

2 white beads

Sunglasses Pinneapple:

15 green beads

44 yellow beads

11 black beads

After you melt your fuse beads, you can turn them into earrings. Heres how:

1. If you have jump rings big enough, you can skip steps 1-3. Most jump rings I have seen are not big enough though, so you have to make your own. Take a wire and pinch it between your pliers.

2. Wrap the wire around the pliers. When you take it off, it should look like this.

3. Cut off the extra wire. 

4. Put the jump ring through one of the holes in the fuse beads. Then close the jump ring.

5.  Attatch the earring hook to the jump ring.

6: Repeat for the other earring, and then your earrings are ready to wear!