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New Class! Friday Night Out: Ball Chain & Leather Bracelet
$60.00Date and Time: 09/15/2023 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.
Sawing and Soldering
$88.00Date and Time: 08/27/2023 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: Basic sweat soldering skills.
In this metal working class, learn some precision sawing techniques to create negative space. Take the shape just sawed out and solder it on the pendant to create texture. Your pendant will be one-of-a-kind. A great project for honing your sawing and soldering skills.
New Class! Circles & Wiggles in CRAW
$78.00Date and Time: 08/05/2023 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW skills. Call for a private tutorial.
Use your cubed right angle skills to make circles and wiggles. Make connections and a matching clasp. This is a project to tickle your CRAW funny bone and won’t get completed in class.
New Class! Geometric Wrapped Bracelet
$72.00Date and Time: 08/13/2023 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Create a square with wire. Wrap it with wire and incorporate jump rings to create links. Connect up your links with more jump rings. Then end your piece with triangles that are part of the toggle closure.
Beaded Mask Holder through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 05/10/2022 from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Design your personal mask holder using a variety of beads—colors, materials, textures. Learn to use flexible wire and crimp beads. These skills easily transfer to making glass holders, bracelets and necklaces. Kid friendly class.
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.
$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.
Beaded Mask Holder through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 04/01/2022 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Design your personal mask holder using a variety of beads—colors, materials, textures. Learn to use flexible wire and crimp beads. These skills easily transfer to making glass holders, bracelets and necklaces. Kid friendly class.
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.
$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.
Bonita’s Nebula Beads–only 2 seats left!
$120.00Date and Time: 07/15/2023 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic lampworking skills.
This “next steps” lampworking class is one of experimentation. We will be encasing with clear in between layers of embellishment with frit, stringer work, and plunging. Be ready to explore the galaxy and find some nebulas!
Brick Stitch Woman in Skirt
$72.00Date and Time: 12/11/2021 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity:
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.
Capped Caged Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 07/17/2022 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: Any wire working experience.
This is a great next steps wire working class for those with basic wire wrapping and weavings skills. Participants will create a wire woven cage that will sit on top of a bead, to make a dangly pair of earrings. These cages make for a great component in other jewelry projects.
Centerline™ World Peace Bracelet
$75.00Date and Time: 03/22/2022 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Alysaa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites:
Use a new product out on the bead market—an adjustable cuff bracelet. Learn to weave Miyuki Delica 11/0 beads into the cuff declaring your support for World Peace. This is a beautiful, fun, and fast weaving project. No experience needed.
Centerline™ World Peace Bracelet through Kirkwood Community College
$72.00Date and Time: 02/25/2022 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use a new product out on the bead market—an adjustable cuff bracelet. Learn to weave Miyuki Delica 11/0 beads into the cuff declaring your support for World Peace. This is a beautiful, fun, and fast weaving project. 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.
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk.
$30 instructor fee/$45 materials fee.
Cosmic Horn Earrings–This class is full.
Date and Time: 10/09/2022 from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 1
Instructor: Laurel Kubby
Prerequisites: Peyote stitch skills. Call for a private tutorial.
This class combines peyote-based geometric forms to create a pair of 3-dimensional earrings. You will learn to make two components as well as how to connect them.
Registration is $126 and includes all materials and instruction.
CRAW Fan Pendant
$78.00Date and Time: 09/03/2022 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW skills. Call for a private tutorial.
Use your cubed right angle weave skills to make a curved and embellished pendant. Make a match to use as earrings. This workshop uses three sizes of Toho seed beads.
Daisy Chain Headband–this class is full! Call to get on a waiting list.
Date and Time: 06/03/2023 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Get ready for summer festivals and gatherings. Learn a modification of flat right angle weave to make a classic flower headband. Make your piece adjustable so it fits just right whether you are gardening, walking in the woods, or dancing.
Please call 319 338-1566 to get on a waiting list. When we have two people on the waiting list, we will schedule another session. The registration is $68 and includes all materials and instruction.
De Medici Heirloom Pendant
$88.00Date and Time: 07/31/2021 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic peyote stitch skills. Call for a private class or tutorial.
Using instructions from beadwork designer Gianna Zimmerman-Lammering, make a beautiful pendant. The centerpiece is a Rivoli that is highly embellished with seed beads and Swarovski crystals. Then add an innovative herringbone technique that ends with a Swarovski dangle. Participants must download and print the instructions ($5.09) and bring them to class. Beadology Iowa will offer a supplement to enhance the instructions.
Fleur-de-lis Component Bracelet
$78.00Date and Time: 09/09/2023 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Using Crescent and Gem Duo two-holed Czech beads and Toho seed beads, create a fleur-de-lis component. Make as many links as needed to make a bracelet. This component also makes great earrings!