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New Class! Morning Glory Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 08/30/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In this blooming herringbone project, students will create a pair of beaded morning glory earrings to represent the late season emergence of the flowers in August, also connected to the zodiac sign of Virgo, the harvester.
New Class! Prong Set Pendant
$72.00Date and Time: 08/31/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: Introductory wire weaving (not wrapping) skills.
Take your wire weaving skills to the next step with this new class. Use square wire to capture a bead with prongs versus a bezel or wire wrapping. A simple bail will be constructed to create a smooth line when finishing this delicate pendant. This will increase your wire working skills and you will walk away with a lovely pendant. These skills can be used for smaller and larger objects.
Doorknocker Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 09/06/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic peyote skills. Call to schedule a private tutorial.
Make a donut using peyote stitch and 15/0 Toho seed beads. Then, create an embellished beaded bail to form it into an earring. This is a great opportunity to build your peyote stitch skills.
Etched Charm Bracelet
$98.00Date and Time: 09/07/2025 from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: Basic Soldering Skills
Learn the process of acid etching metal. Each participant will make a set of charms and create a chain with rings from which to hang your charms. This project will hone your spot soldering skills.
New Class! Off Mandrel Mushrooms
$120.00Date and Time: 09/13/2025 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic lampworking skills.
In this next steps lampworking class, learn to work “off mandrel”. Use your mandrel as a punty to create a glass capped mushroom with a spike end. You can add your mushroom to a potted plant or your yard. Get ambitious and add a bail to create a pendant.
New Class! Wire Wrapped & Beaded Fan Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 09/14/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Create an armature with a larger gauge wire. Then wrap this with thinner wire and string beads across the armature. Use round seed beads and Czech pressed glass feather beads to create a lovely pair of earrings.
Stained Glass Earrings through Kirkwood
Date and Time: 09/15/2025 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use SuperDuos and a variety of sizes of Toho round seed beads to create a beaded bead that looks like a stained-glass window. Then add embellishment beads to a headpin and you have got yourself an unusual pair of earrings.
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 to Kirkwood/$35 materials fee to Beadology Iowa.
New Class! Wire & Leather Kumihimo Bracelet
$72.00 – $78.00Date and Time: 09/20/2025 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cindy Johnson
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Join first time guest instructor Cindy Johnson for an innovative kumihimo project. With a foam disk, use 22-gauge wire and 2mm leather to make a flat braid. Learn to finish it with bead caps and a toggle clasp. This class will be repeated on Friday, Sept. 26 from 1-4pm.
A round or square foam kumihimo disk is the tool needed.
New Class! Wire & Leather Kumihimo Bracelet
$72.00 – $78.00Date and Time: 09/26/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cindy Johnson
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Join first time guest instructor Cindy Johnson for an innovative kumihimo project. With a foam disk, use 22-gauge wire and 2mm leather to make a flat braid. Learn to finish it with bead caps and a toggle clasp.
A round or square kumihimo disk is the tool needed.
Intro to Solid Borosilicate Glass–this class is full, call to get on a waiting list.
Date and Time: 09/28/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to manipulate solid borosilicate glass. Participants will make a variety of shapes that create glass skills of pushing, pulling, adding color, and making a bail. Shapes worked on in class include a pawn, basic marble, icicle pendant, and a mushroom pendant.
This class serves as the prerequisite for other Boro classes.
Since this class is full, please call 319 338-1566 to get in a waiting list. When we have two people on the list, we will schedule another session.
Registration is $128 in includes all materials, instruction, and use of tools and equipment during class.
Woven Ring with Stone
$72.00Date and Time: 09/29/2025 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: Any wire working experience.
Learn to create a woven wire bail to secure a stone in place. Then weave a band to size and connect your stone. Each ring is one of a kind.
Kumihimo Bracelet with Pinch Beads through Kirkwood
Date and Time: 10/02/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Folsom
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to create a classic round braid on a kumihimo foam disk using pinch beads. The result is beautiful. This bracelet ends with bead caps and a lobster or spring ring. No experience needed.
$35 to Kirkwood for instructor fee/$35 materials fee if you bring your own tools/$55 if you need tools supplied.
Tools needed are a kumihimo disk and 8 weighted bobbins.
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. Instructor: Emma Folsom.
Make 2 Bracelets: Intro to Stringing
$60.00Date and Time: 10/04/2025 from 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Stringing beads is a fundamental jewelry making skill. This class places a focus on aesthetics, functionality, and security. You will make two bracelets using Czech Republic pressed glass beads and sterling silver spacers. One bracelet will be made strung on nylon and the second on flexible wire. Both bracelets will be beautiful and secure.
This is a family and kid friendly class.
Make Glass Beads–Intro to Lampworking
$120.00Date and Time: 10/04/2025 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
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.
NOTE: Participants must be at least 15 years old.
This class serves as a prerequisite for next steps lampworking classes.
Wire Wrapped Earring with Dangles
$78.00Date and Time: 10/05/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Call 319 338-1566 for a private tutorial.
Learn to wrap and secure a focal bead to create the body of an earring. Create loops for smaller dangles to hang from the bottom. This technique can be made smaller for a smaller set of earrings, or larger and/or longer for a dramatic pair.
Class Cancellation Policy
Class fees are due at time of registration. Cancellations must be made at least 5 days in advance of class in order to receive store credit. There are no cash refunds for cancellations issued by the student.
If Beadology Iowa cancels a class, the student can choose to transfer registration to another class, receive store credit, or receive a cash refund.
With a completed class, participants will receive a single-use card good for double rewards points on an entire purchase within 10 days of the class.
New Class! Kumihimo Loop Earrings
$72.00 – $92.00Date and Time: 08/23/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Folsom
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Braid a kumihimo rope and form it into loops that are inserted into a bead cap as the top of the earring. Making an 8-strand braid, called Kongo-Gumi, with varied colored cord really shows off your work. This is a great class for those wanting to learn kumihimo as well as for those who already know how to do this traditional Japanese braiding technique.
Tools needed are a kumihimo disk and 8 weighted bobbins.