Wild Rose Earrings
Designer: Jeanette Shanigan

These easy flowers have an infinite number of uses

One of my favorite Alaskan wild flowers, the wild rose, is in full bloom at the moment. This beady version is quick to make and there are many ways to use the flowers.

For example, you can glue them to earring posts (I recommend Bond 527 glue) or hang them from earwires as shown here. You can also string them with seed beads to make a necklace. Made large with glass pony or crow beads, these flowers also make great coasters or trivets (don’t use plastic because it will melt).

My theme for the 2008 beaded quilt squares for the Bead Artists against Breast Cancer auction is roses, so these wild roses would work well (see “Bead It Forward” for the dimensions and more about participating in this project).

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About The Author

Jeanette Shanigan has been working with beads for more than 38 years and has written ten beadwork books (Beaded Holiday Earrings, Suncatcher Beaded Jewelry, Beaded Adornment, Beaded Holiday Adornment, The Beaded Basket, Beads for the Holidays, Beadazzled Cabochon Jewelry, Bevy of Beaded Bracelets, Holiday Beadery, Bead-Embellished Objects), as well as articles for Lapidary Journal and Jewelry Crafts. More than 130 of her designs are also listed on the internet store Bead-Patterns.com. She has taught at Embellishment, The International Spring Quilt Show, Bead Expo, the Bead&Button Show, and Bead Fest. Having taught high school for 31 years, Jeanette retired in June 2004 and now has time to give her bead career full-time attention.

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