DIY quilled Jumkha earrings – A guest tutorial

DIY quilled Jumkha earrings

en  Lavanya Nallamalli’s facebook page crossed 3000 likes in november last year, she decided to do a very interesting giveaway. She invited readers to send in designs for quilled earrings and announced that the winners would get their designs handmade into products by her. Lavanya is here with us for the next few days, over which she’ll share with us how she created these pieces with 2 step by step DIY tutorials. Over to Lavanya for the DIY quilled Jumkha earrings tutorial

 DIY quilled Jumkha earrings

Materials

•         Quilling slotted tool
•         5mm strips
•         Quilling board
•         Jewelry pliers  and wire Cutter
•         Modge Podge Gloss
•         Fevicol (white glue)
•         Jewelry Findings : Jump rings, Head pins ,eye pins, Half beads, gold ball chains, Rhinestone chain, Bead caps, Stud bases

Method

1.  Analyse the design and  make 14 coils as shown in the above visual.

2. Join ½ strip of yellow, green and ¼ strip of dark green to form a round coil. Place it on the third circle of the board and let it expand .Remove it from the board and press at two edges and twist it as shown in pic at both ends to form a leaf shape. 
 
 

3. Glue the curved coils, round coils and leaf shapes as per the design step by step as shown below

 
4. Apply Modge Podge Gloss before attaching the Jewelry accessories otherwise color of the Jewelry materials might change if they come into contact with varnish. First apply it on front portion and let it dry. Once it dries up apply it on back side. To make sure those earrings does not stick to each other dry them for a few hours.
5. Once the piece is dried up, using Jewelry pliers attach bead cap and bead spacer with the help of head pin. Decorate the Jhumka base with gold ball chains and rhinestone chain  


6. Join 5 yellow strips to form a round tight coil. Place it on the appropriate size of the  Jhumka mould and press it gently to form a dome shape. Apply  fevicol inside the dome and let it dry.
7.Using Jump ring connect the upper part of the earring with the Jhumka base with the help of pliers
 

Divya’s Note: Fabric glue dries clears while fevicol might leave a thin film. They can be used interchangeably or use Mod podge in lieu of both in this DIY quilled Jumkha earrings tutorial

About the Artist: Lavanya Nallamalli is a Computer science graduate who worked as software engineer for 5 years before taking a baby break. During pregnancy when she used to work from home she came across crochet tutorials of baby accessories on the internet and started making crochet gifts. When her little one grew up, she started a home business of crochet baby gift accessories which got extended into crochet jewelry and Quilling jewelry. Find her on Facebook – Crochet4 charity and EEE crafts

I hope you found it interesting
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10 responses to “DIY quilled Jumkha earrings – A guest tutorial”

  1. Little Treasures avatar
    Little Treasures

    Thank you for showcasing Lavanya – her tutorial is amazing!

    Reply
  2. Karin G avatar
    Karin G

    Thank you for making me discover this artist, this is so creative and unusual!

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  3. Cinnamon Jewellery avatar
    Cinnamon Jewellery

    Really interesting to see how quilling is done! Lovely design 😀

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  4. Divya N avatar
    Divya N

    Thanks everyone, Lavanya has been very generous in sharing such detailed tutorials. One more will be up soon.

    Reply
  5. Almost Precious avatar
    Almost Precious

    Lavanya is very talented, her work is beautiful. Many times people do not realize how complex a piece is to make but once they see a tutorial it becomes very clear how many steps are involved and how time intensive it can be.

    Reply
  6. bairozan avatar
    bairozan

    You can make a lot of jewelry components with quilling. Even though I have seen some before, it was interesting to see how the bead cap was made. And I learned that the planning of the design has to be very strict, too!

    Reply
  7. Divya N avatar
    Divya N

    I guess that depends on your perspective. If and when I do quilling I tend to do it very organically without planning. But then, I have never made such elaborate pieces

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  8. Divya N avatar
    Divya N

    I guess the first challenge is not to get intimidated by the no. of steps but to do them one at a time

    Reply
  9. Indhu Sivaraman avatar
    Indhu Sivaraman

    Hi. This is soo nice. I have doubt. Can I remove a bead from the golden liner beads. It's kind of connected. I want to separate one bead alone to use above the cap for making jumkhas. If this is possible pls help me with explanations.

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  10. Divya N avatar
    Divya N

    Hi Indhu, I am not sure what is the golden "liner bead" that you refer to here? I assume that you are talking about the ball chain. the balls can be cut off but can only be glued to something and not strung to looped as they dont have holes i nthem

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