Make Earrings from Scrap Fabric

Earrings from Scrap Fabric

My daughter and I have been working hard to reuse as much as possible when sewing and crafting. Sometimes using found materials is inspiring, sometimes its a lot easier to go buy new. We've a bunch of these lightweight fabric earrings from scrap fabric. The earrings can be made as large or small as you like and are a great way of creating a new fashion accent from trash in only 30 minutes or less. Overall, a winning combination.

Materials
Scrap Fabric
Pellon fusible interfacing (in light or medium weight)
Serger thread (light blue)
Needle
Fishhook earring findings (surgical steel, silver plate, gold plate, copper
 or sterling silver)

Tools
Serger
Chain nose pliers

Measure the fabric

Step 1
Cut four pieces of scrap fabric into 2.5x2.5 inch squares. Cut two pieces of fusible interfacing into 2.5x2.5 inch squares.We used scrap fabric and scrap interfacing, any selection of woven fabric will do. Heavier interfacing will give more structure to the earring, but lightweight interfacing will work.

Cut the fabric into a square

Step 2
Iron the fusible interfacing to the back of two of the cut 2.5x2.5 pieces.

Step 3
Sandwich the fusible interfacing between the fabric and use a three thread rolled edge to sew the pieces together until the square is framed by the rolled edge. We used

Serge the edge to create frame

a light blue thread to frame our fabric and sewed with a 1/4-inch seam allowance so the resulting fabric earring was a 2x2 square.

Leave thread tail

Do not cut the last serger thread. Instead, leave the thread long enough to create a loop and tie the thread into a knot just above the top corner of the fabric diamond.

Tie thread to create loop

Step 4
Tie the serger thread and knot.

Step 5

Add earring finding

Use pliers to open the ring of the fishhook earring finding. We used a gold plated, brass finding. Feed the loop onto the ring of the finding. Use your pliers to close the loop, securing the earring to the finding.

Repeat to create second earring

Step 6
Repeat to create matching earring.

Related Tutorials
Make a Handkerchief from Scrap Fabric
Use Your Serger to Make a Belt from Scrap Fabric
Make a Grocery Bag from Scrap Fabric

Further Reading
"Fabric Jewelry: 25 Designs to Make Using Silk, Ribbon, Buttons, and Beads"; Teresa Searle; 2008.
"Felt, Fabric, and Fiber Jewelry: 20 Beautiful Projects to Bead, Stitch, Knot, and Braid"; Sherri Haab; 2008.
"Fabric Jewelry Wrapped, Braided and Sewn"; Heidi Pridemore, Nancy Zieman