Fab Fish Brick Stitch Earrings

This Content Created by Emily Hackbarth

This is one of my favorite simple brick stitch bead patterns. While working with size 15 hex beads I was struck by how much the fabric formed by using brick stitch with these beads resembled the scales of a fish. This got me thinking about what kind of fish I could make to take advantage of the resemblance that would also make nice earrings. I thought about those fancy goldfish with the gorgeous flowing tails and thought, "Fringe!" So this is the pattern I came up with. I hope you like it!

Note:  

You must know how to do brick stitch to use this pattern, if you don't, here are some instructions for this fun stitch.

You will need:

Opaque blue, opaque red, opaque orange, transparent green-lined and black size 15 hex beads.
Size 12 or 13 beading needle
Size 0 or 00 Nymo beading thread. Try to get blue if you can find it.
Bees wax or Thread Heaven
2 French earring wires

You may either print out this brick stitch pattern or use the detailed row chart provided. Or both!

Tips:

Feel free to experiment with different color combinations. Peach, pink, pale yellow, and aqua would be nice. I tried to keep the design reasonably small since I know most women are uncomfortable with really large earrings, but if you like them (I do!) go ahead and expand the design to include fringed fins as well. Just keep increasing until the center is about 8 beads wider then decrease 4 beads on each side to finish the bottom half. 

Note:

The black square on the diagram marks where the fringe begins.

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