The Beader’s Calendar 2025: April Jewel

Eostre earrings tutorial by Chloe is the April jewel of the Beader’s Calendar 2025 by Beadingschool. The Eostre components make the perfect earrings to celebrate spring! You can play with different colors of Preciosa bicone beads to match your style.

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You receive a luxury quality calendar to hang on the wall, with 12 projects you can bead during the year, designed by the best bead artists: Ruxandra Puscas, Vicky Roberts, Laura Embrey, Chloe Menage, Anita Schackmann, Giuliana Verdelli, and the Beadingschool Creative Team led by Erika Sándor.⁠

🧵🪡 On the first Monday, the tutorial becomes available for the month’s jewel, so today is the time for the second one already. If you don’t have the Calendar yet, you can get it here.  Once you check out successfully, you can download the Ventana tutorial for January, Love Triangle for February and The Stars for March right away – just make sure to remain logged into your account. The Calendar will land on your bead mat very soon!

GET TO KNOW OUR DESIGNER!

Chloe Menage is a UK-based designer who creates vibrant and whimsical beadwoven designs in a riot of colours. She has a passion for colour and sparkle – and for sharing her love of beading with others! Her favourite stitches are peyote, RAW and CRAW, and she loves to work with seed beads, shaped beads and crystals.

As an experienced jewellery designer, Chloe has been a Guest Designer on the JewelleryMaker TV shopping channel and was previously editor of popular publication Bead & Jewellery magazine. She has also popped in to join Erika on #NoOneHasToBeadAlone on several occasions.

ABOUT THE STARS EARRINGS

Chloe’s tutorial will show you how to weave sparkling egg-shaped components using bicone crystals formed around a pear-shaped pearl. String your beaded eggs on wire and finish with headpin dangles and some sparkling earwires for a beautiful pair of earrings.
Make a simple earrings variation or connect several beaded beads into a statement bracelet or necklace.

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MATERIAL LIST for pair of earrings:

• 50x 3 mm Preciosa Bicone beads
• 28x 4 mm Preciosa Bicone beads
• 14x 6 mm Preciosa Bicone beads
• 2x 8×15 mm Preciosa Pear pearls
• 11/0 Miyuki Seed beads
• findings to customize your jewel.

Which one is your favorite?

Chocolate Box – original, violet and lavander colorway by Chloe.
Spring – cheerful flower bouquet in Beadingschool colors.
Sunrise – hot orange and fuchsia.

SEE THE BEAD BUNDLES!

Chloe has been teaching her colourful projects for more than 15 years and regularly teaches beading workshops around the world virtually from her home studio.  She is loved by her students for her fun and informal classes, her clear, well-written patterns and her patient teaching style.

All of Chloe’s kits, patterns and virtual classes can be found through her brand Pinkhot Jewellery.

We have Face to Face interview when she responded to our questions, in 2021 and it’s really fun to read. Later she started to cooperate with Beadingschool at some projects and you can choose and bead her jewels also from the Designer Zone.

We’re very happy Chloe has been designer Beadingschool cooperate with for some time already. She’s very kind, full of life and colors that inspires us to see the world around differently.