New Class! Kumihimo Bracelet with Pinch Beads
$72.00 – $92.00Date and Time: 05/04/2024 from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to create a classic round braid on a kumihimo foam disk (or bring your own marudai) using pinch beads. The result is beautiful. This bracelet ends bead caps and a lobster or spring ring. No experience needed. Instructor: Victor Schmidt.
Tools needed are a kumihimo disk and 8 weighted bobbins.
Tree of Life Pendant
$78.00Date and Time: 05/05/2024 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn to use copper wire and gemstone chips to create a pendant with a tree of life motif. This project will be slightly different each time you do it. You can choose to make a circle, an oval, or a heart as the outside shape of your pendant. Great gift item for friends and family.
Make 2 Bracelets: Intro to Stringing through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 05/09/2024 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowhcuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This class places a focus on professional stringing and design techniques. You will make two bracelets using Czech Republic glass beads and sterling silver. Two different stringing strategies will be taught: nylon finished with bead tips and flexible wire finished with crimp beads. Both bracelets will be secure and beautiful.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at: kirkwood and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under instructor in the advanced search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
$30 instructor fee/$35 materials fee.
New Class! Hidden Gem Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 05/11/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Use Toho seed beads, GemDuos, and SuperDuo to create a beaded bezel around a Swarovski crystal rivoli. This pattern by Barbara Lepak is sure to broaden your seed bead weaving skills.
Oriana Pendant: Bezeling with SuperDuos
$72.00Date and Time: 05/18/2024 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Use SuperDuos and 3 sizes of round Toho beads to create a beaded bezel around a Swarovski rivoli. This is an innovative pattern by Barbara Lepak that is secure and beautiful on the front and the back.
Morse Code Wrap Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 05/18/2024 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Design a message with Morse Code and incorporate it into a wrap bracelet. Send a note to someone or to the world with this fashion piece. Participants will pick from the materials provided.
The message in the bracelet shown is “I love you Beadology Iowa Bead Squad”.
Make Glass Beads: Intro to Lampworking through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 05/21/2024 from 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
This class will teach you the art of lampworking, a technique of using a torch and melting glass rods to create various shapes. Safety and appropriate equipment handling are emphasized. Your beads will need to stay in a kiln overnight to be annealed. No previous experience needed.
NOTE: Participants must be at least 15 years old.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
kirkwood.edu On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
$50 instructor fee/$80 materials fee.
New Class! Embellished CRAW Asymmetrical Earrings
$88.00Date and Time: 05/25/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic cubed right angle weave skills. Call for a private tutorial.
Using stone beads, create CRAW squares and tubes. Embellish your work with Swarovski crystals. Stack these components on a headpin in opposite ways to create earrings that are asymmetrical and perfectly balanced.
Stacked Textured Rings
$88.00Date and Time: 05/26/2024 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn to texturize brass and silver rings. Then size it to fit. Get or hone your soldering skills to complete your ring. Learn good clean up techniques. Make a few to stack. This is a great intro to soldering.
New Class! Friday Night Out: Farah Beaded Bead Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 05/31/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Make beaded beads using Czech pressed glass beads and varied sizes of Toho round seed beads using a pattern by Barbara Lepak. The way these beads become stiff and solid is very innovative. Then add a drop to create a unique earring.
Brick Stitch Woman in Skirt
$72.00Date and Time: 06/01/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Students will learn brick stitch, one of many off loom bead weaving techniques. Using Delica cylinder beads, students will form the torso of a woman, with 3-dimensional arms. Fringe creates a skirt to create a flowing earring or pendant. Choose you woman’s skin tone. One woman will be made in class.
SuperDuo Ombre Rope Bracelet through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 06/06/2024 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Allow Beadology Iowa staff to guide you through this pattern by Susan Sassoon to make a flowing rope bracelet. Use 3 colors of SuperDuos, Toho round seed beads, and a magnetic clasp to create this bracelet.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
kirkwood.edu On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
$35 instructor fee/$35 materials fee
Cascade Earrings
$98.00Date and Time: 06/08/2024 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Call 319 338-1566 for a private tutorial.
This class will hone your wrapped loop skills. Use a spectrum of colors to connect Swarovski crystals to chain to create a set of cascading earrings. Emphasis will be placed on good wire work skills. One earring will be made in class. Kit materials will allow you to make the second on your own. These earrings retail for over $150.
Cosmic Flora Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 06/15/2024 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Create diamond shaped earrings out of CzechMate crescents, Superduos, Delicas, 2 sizes of Toho seed beads, and a Swarovski pearl. This pattern is by Estelita Mayac Chiles and uses circular netting. This session helps people follow the pattern published in the Dec 2018/Jan 2019 Beadwork magazine. Participants must have a copy of the magazine or pay $7.99 to download a copy of the instructions to register.
New Class! Resin Pendant
$68.00Date and Time: 06/15/2024 from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Design a pendant with something you bring from home—a photograph, image, small item—which you imbed in resin to make a pendant. This item might be a dried flower, a wing, a seed, a charm–it could be anything not more than 1/4″ deep. Some materials will be provided. Learn to mix resin and pour it into a pendant mold. The resin will have to be cured overnight, so participants will have to come back the next day or after to finish their project.
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Friday Night Out: Ring Keeper
$74.00Date and Time: 06/21/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Using copper wire and small spacer beads, create a “ring keeper.” This piece is a lovely piece of jewelry that doubles as a place to keep a ring safe from gardening, dish washing, or wrestling. It is a bit magical. It doubles as a place to put your eyeglasses. The kit comes with an 18” copper chain.
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New Class! Granada Bracelet
$78.00Date and Time: 06/22/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
In this 2-hole bead design by Deborah Hodoyer, create square components out of GemDuos, Toho round seed beads, and fire polish beads. Bead them together to make a bracelet. This component makes great earrings, too!
Chevron Beaded Bracelet through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 06/28/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use Toho seed beads to learn ladder stitch and chevron stitch to make a quick and simple bracelet that has high impact. You will use one color of larger beads for the base and then embellish it with slightly smaller beads in three colors. The “V” shape is stunning. No experience needed.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
kirkwood.edu On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
$35 instructor fee through Kirkwood/$35 materials fee at class time.
New Class! Channeled Stone Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 06/29/2024 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Stone
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Call 319 338-1566 for a private tutorial.
Using stone beads that have a channel carved on the perimeter and wire, create fun and one of a kind earrings. Design your dangles, maybe make each earring unique, and enjoy wearing these unusual stone earrings.
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New Class! 2-Lane Kumihimo Bracelet
$72.00 – $92.00Date and Time: 06/29/2024 from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to create a two-lane braid with beads on the side and cord in the middle on a kumihimo foam disk (or bring your own marudai). The result is beautiful. This bracelet ends with a button closure.
Tools needed are a kumihimo disk and 8 weighted bobbins.
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Bird’s Nest Wire Pendant–great Mother’s Day Gift
$48.00
05/04/2024 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Bird’s Nest Wire Pendant–great Mother’s Day Gift
$48.00Date and Time: 05/04/2024 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Hodges
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This kid friendly class is a great way to prepare gifts for Mother’s Day–use wire and pearls, stones, or crystal to create a quick and beautiful bird’s nest filled with “eggs”. Make a smaller version on your own for earrings. Use birth stone colors to represent children in a family as a precious gift.