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2-Lane Kumihimo Bracelet
$72.00 – $92.00Date and Time: 01/11/2025 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Folsom
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.
Make Glass Beads–Intro to Lampworking
$120.00Date and Time: 01/11/2025 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 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 is a prerequisite for second steps glass classes, such as Bonita’s Nebula Beads on Feb. 22.
Fundamentals of Metal Working
$128.00Date and Time: 01/12/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In this full day metalworking class, learn the fundamentals of metalworking: sawing, filing, drilling, riveting, and stamping. Then design your pendant and put your newfound or refreshed skills to work.
This class serves as a prerequisite for many classes in our metalworking series. No soldering involved in this project.
Friday Night Out: Papillion Beaded Beads
$68.00Date and Time: 01/17/2025 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use SuperDuo and Toho round beads to create a beaded bead. The beading is done around a wooden bead to create a firm structure. Make multiple beads.
New Class! Cute Cog Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 01/18/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW skills—call to arrange a private tutorial or see our CRAW pendant kit.
Don’t be a cog, make a cog! Create a tight circle with cubed right angle weave, CRAW. Then use a new embellishment technique in the center. Stitch in the ditch around the edges. Build a structure from which to hold your ear wire on your new beaded earrings.
New Class! Snake Weave Bracelet with Beads
$72.00Date and Time: 01/19/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn or hone your snake weave skills to make a lovely woven bracelet. Add stones as you weave. Create a clasp for a custom fit.
New Class! Zodiac Series: Vase of Aquarius
$72.00Date and Time: 01/25/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In the second of a yearlong series, make jewelry projects that correspond to the current Zodiac sign. January’s sign is Aquarius. Learn or hone your brick stitch skills. Follow a pattern to create a water vase. Get great tips and tricks to making flowing fringe that looks like water pouring from the vase. Tune in each month for the next Zodiac project. Collect them all.
Intro to Boro Hollow Glass
$128.00Date and Time: 01/26/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to manipulate borosilicate glass tubing. Participants will learn to stretch, blow, and embellish tube glass.
Must be at least 15 years old to participate.
Note: This class serves as a prerequisite for the Blown Sphere scheduled on Feb. 16.
Netted Flower Earrings through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 01/27/2025 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use a traditional netting stitch and an ombre cast of colors to make these flower earrings. Once you learn the basic pattern, experiment with endless variations for this project including adding fringe or a larger bead in the center.
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.
Make 2 Bracelets: Intro to Stringing
$60.00Date and Time: 02/01/2025 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Folsom
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.
Make 3 Pairs of Earrings: Intro to Wirework
$60.00Date and Time: 02/01/2025 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This is a great introduction to wirework. Two skills are learned and practiced—making a closed wrapped loop and making this loop into another closed loop. This set of skills allows you go make secure earrings, pendants, and chains. You will make earrings from Czech pressed glass, stone, fresh water pearls, and Swarovski crystals.
Note: This class serves as a pre-requisite for many Beadology Iowa classes.
New Class! Celtic Knot Bracelet
$72.00Date and Time: 02/02/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Using various thicknesses of wire, create a Celtic knot. This serves as the centerpiece of a wire woven bracelet. A great project to learn how to use jewelry making tools.
Picture coming soon!
Ball Chain & Leather Bracelet through Kirkwood
Date and Time: 02/07/2025 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use waxed linen to wrap ball chain around a piece of leather. It sounds so easy and looks so good. Add a button clasp on one end and a loop on the other, and you are ready, set, go! Vegan option available.
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/$30 materials fee to Beadology Iowa.
Pearl Dangle Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 02/08/2025 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped Loop. See Make 3 Pairs of Earrings Jan. 7 or Feb. 1
Use wrapped loops to attach freshwater pearls to sterling chain. Add an ear wire and watch these lovely materials dangle for a beautiful earring. Easy to make. Easy to wear.
Pearl Knotting
$68.00Date and Time: 02/08/2025 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Folsom
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Everyone needs a classic string of pearls. In this class, you will learn the secrets of making pearl knotting easy. Each person will leave with a bracelet made with freshwater pearls and a sterling silver clasp.
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.
Wire Wrapping Stones
$72.00Date and Time: 01/05/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use wire to capture a stone using different shapes of wire. Participants will learn to coil and weave wires together for layers of embellishment.