Triangular Earrings - 3 Sided Granny Square

I wear a Triangle in my Ears

Oh my GOD the crochet earring bug  is driving me wild and I am in a spree of making earrings. I am searching for trimming designs, granny square motifs or anything which I could replicate as a single motif and use it for earrings

During my search I stumbled upon a triangular motif which can be used in Blankets  and I modified it to make 2 different triangular crochet earrings.

I used a No. 10 crochet cotton thread and used 1.9 hook and here goes the steps to make these earrings

• Crochet chain 5 into the basic slip knot. Join it into a ring using slip knot.

Round 1

•  Ch 3 (count as 1dc), 3dc in the ring, Ch2, 4dc in the ring,Ch2 4dc in the ring, Ch2 join with the slip stitch.Ch3 (Count as 1dc) turn

Round 2

• 3dc Ch2 4dc in the Ch2 space of round 1.
• Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 1.
• Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 1. Ch1 and join with the starting Ch3 using sl st. Ch3(Count as 1dc) turn

Round 3- This makes the last triangle a wee bit bigger and also a bell shape

The Bell Shaped Triangle

• 3dc Ch2 4dc in the Ch1 space of round 2.
• Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 2.
• Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch1 space of round 2.
• Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 2.
• Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch1 space of round 2.
• Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 2.Ch1 and join with the starting Ch3 using sl st. Sl St in all the stitches until you come to a Corner.
• Ch 1 and fasten off.

Round 3- Aliter-This makes it a sharp triangle and a bit smaller.

3dc Ch1 space of round 2.

The Sharper Triangle

Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 2.

Ch1, 4dc in the next Ch1 space of round 2.

Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 2.

Ch1, 4dc in the next Ch1 space of round 2.

Ch1, 4dc Ch2 4dc in the next Ch2 space of round 2.Ch1 and join with the starting Ch3 using sl st. Sl St in all the stitches until you come to a Corner.

Ch 1 and fasten off.

Slip the jump rings into the last sc and then the earrings is ready.

Both the Earrings near each other and we can spot the Subtle Difference

Spray starch and iron them to retain shape.

Crochet Earrings - The Gradual Shell Earrings

The Change in colour accentuates the Shell

My experiment with Knitting took me 3 months and inbetween knitting  I was crocheting headbands for my daughter. I stumbled upon a detailed video on crochet earrings and this made me search for videos on how to make crochet earrings. One video caught my eye as it used embroidery floss which I had in abundance. I tried it and it came out beautiful. It was the Wedges which I will blog later.  The best part I like about small projects is that I could finish them in an afternoon and also wear it immediately.

Voila How I loved those Wedge Earrings. It attracted many of my friends attention and I just wanted to make more. So this made me search and this One Virtuous Woman is simply awesome with her videos. I liked this simple earrings which I could crochet in an hour or two. I went shopping and bought 1.9mm hook and crochet 10 thread to make many more earrings.

The Wedges earrings is from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8X5BDn0FSs by onevirtuouswoman

or in YouTube we can search as "Tutorial Tuesday #37 Crochet Earrings ( The Gradual Shell Earrings)"

I am just replicating the steps in words. The video is detailed and anyone can crochet these earrings.

The Height can be adjusted to make it Small or Long

I used a Red  no. 10 crochet cotton thread and used 1.9 hook. I spent one of the Wonderful Wednesdays when my daughter spends extended time in her preschool in the library and just made these earrings in a jiffy and am blogging it right away. I will be going home adding my Jump ring and pair it with a red dress tomorrow. 

Here goes the tutorial's written steps

Pretty Shells

• Crochet chain 5 into the basic slip knot. Join it into a ring using slip knot.
• 10 sc into the ring. Ch 3 turn

Shell 1

•  3 dc(with the 3 ch it is 4dc) into the ring, ch2, 4 dc into the ring. Turn.

Shell 2

•  Slip stitch into the 4 dc and into the chain 2 space. ( we are moving the thread to the chain 2 space)
• Ch 3, 3 dc(with the 3 ch it is 4dc) into the ch 2 space ,ch2, 4 dc into the same ch 2 space. Turn.

You can create as many shells you want the length of the earrings to be

Penultimate Shell

• Slip stitch into the 4 dc and into the chain 2 space. ( we are moving the thread to the chain 2 space)
• Ch3 ,3 dc(with the 3 ch it is 4dc) into the ch 2 space, ch4 (instead of 2ch), 4 dc into the same ch 2 space. Turn.

Last Shell

• Slip stitch into the 4 dc and into the chain 4 space. ( we are moving the thread to the chain 4 space)
• Ch4 , 11 tc in the chain 4 space. ch3 Turn.
• sc in the next stitch, *ch3, sc in the next stitch* , repeat * till the end of all tc stitches. ch1 and fasten off. We can add beads in this step.
• Weave in the ends.

Slip the jump rings into the last sc and then the earrings is ready.

Spray starch and iron them to retain shape.

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Atlast I had My Maiden Craft Fair on my Birthday 20th April 2013. My Cards for All Occasion was the one that was very successful. I got appreciation for my Quilling Craft. Some of the Cards I had Displayed are posted here.