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Crochet earrings can be tiny thread motifs, long embroidery floss accessories, or small colorful circles. These seven original patterns list their finished sizes and materials so you can choose a project suited to the findings and scale you want.
Thread weight projects like these need a much finer hook than yarn work, plus jewelry findings you’ll source separately.
Crochet earring patterns to explore
1. Quick and Easy Crochet Earrings
Rachel says thread is not her favorite thing either, but that it is worst on big projects, and these earrings are quick enough to be worth trying. She uses Aunt Lydia’s Classic Crochet Thread (size 10) on a 2.5 mm hook, and each motif is about 1½ inches across. The pastel motif starts with a chain 5 and a ring of double crochets and chain 1 spaces.
2. Mint Spirit Earrings
Mint Spirit is a dreamcatcher-style pair with beads and tassels, made from two small skeins of DMC embroidery floss, fishhook earrings and a couple of optional beads. Sweet Softies gives a price breakdown, and buying findings in bulk (a pack of 30 makes 15 pairs) makes it cheap. A free video tutorial goes with it.
3. Miniature Mandala Earrings
These mandala earrings are about 1⅞ inches (4 cm) across, worked in two colors of Aunt Lydia’s size 10 crochet cotton thread on a 1.8 mm hook. You also need flat nose pliers, 4 mm jump rings and earring hooks, plus spray starch and a blocking mat, since starching keeps the mandala flat and stiff.
4. Crochet Flower Earrings
April March’s earrings use a traditional Irish rose flower, in size 10 crochet thread in any color, with two French earring hooks. It is a quick finish for layered flowers. The page has a materials list and a FAQ on where to get the pattern.
5. Crochet Flower Medallion Earrings
Jennifer says these medallions are very easy and beginner friendly, made in just two rounds with basic stitches, and that they look good dressed up or down. There is a video tutorial. They use #3 crochet thread on an F/3.75 mm hook, making a 2 by 2 inch medallion, which is bigger and easier to see than the size 10 thread ones.
6. Flower Crochet Earrings
Maya Kuzman uses only chains and slip stitches, with doubled ecru thread and a 1.7 mm hook. You make five petals, chain 10, and repeat until the length you want; hers have 7 petals and are 11 cm (4.3 inches) long. Beads and jump rings are optional, and she gives two ways to attach the earring hooks.
7. Anabelle Earrings
Ashley Parker found DMC Memory Thread, a wire core wrapped in fiber, while looking for a way to use it with crochet, and Anabelle came out of that. The wire core keeps the lace in shape, and she says the earrings take 10 minutes or less to make, so they are a good quick gift or market item.
