Climbing Rose Earrings

Cut 2 pieces 10" long, 20 gauge copper wire. Use flat nose pliers to bend the wire into a rectangle.

Make another one, using the first as a template. At your bench pin, put the copper shape in the tube setting pliers.

After you've sawed both rectangles, align the ends. You need a very smooth and tight join to have a successful soldering job. At your soldering station, flux the join, put solder underneath. I used a titanium strip to prop the copper wire up, so it rested on the solder chip. Solder and put in a hot pickle pot.

Use the mandrel and make a coil of jump rings, 6 or 7 coils. This coil is big enough to hold with your fingers safely. Using your jeweler's saw and cut a full jump ring in two to make bails. Get the soldered copper out of the pickle. Wash and dry. Back at the soldering station, put a half jump ring at the top of each rectangle and solder on bails.

Back at the bench, use the cross peen hammer to texture the soldered components.

Take your bail making pliers and make a big loop with the tail of the flower headpin and wire wrap the bottom of the loop at the flower base.

Bend the flower up until it is parallel to the loop. Use the cross peen hammer to texture the loop of the flower. This will also work harden the wire.