Pins

Head pins

Head pins are a great material in DIY jewelry making. They can be used in your DIY jewelry designs for creating bead charms that can be added to earrings or used as pendants. The head at the base of the pin stops beads from sliding off, while the top of the pin can be shaped into a loop, ready to be attached to your chosen finding. I use head pins to make simple earrings and charms.

Here are some more head pin tutorials:

• Interchangeable ear jacket earrings
• Rainbow beaded pearl hoops

Eye pins

Eye pins are similar to head pins, but instead of a head at one end, eye pins have a pre-formed loop to stop the bead from sliding away. Eye pins can be used in DIY jewelry to create beaded linking charms.

Here are some tutorials that use eye pins:

• A beaded bracelet
• A hair clip with a beaded chain