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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! Peek-a-Boo Cabochon Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 04/06/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Students will use small cabochons in a peek-a-boo pattern fastened with copper wire to make these earrings. This technique is great to add to wire woven jewelry or made with different gauges of wire as bracelets or necklaces!
New Class! Pine Needle Tray–only 1 seat left!
$156.00Date and Time: 04/11/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Marilyn Moore
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This tray begins with a center of Teneriffe embroidery in artificial sinew, the lacy embellishment used in pine needle basketry. Then using the swirling wheat, wheat, and fern stitches, attach pine needles and explore coiling and shaping. You will have a lovely little tray to use for a special ring or pair of earrings.
New Class! Sculpting in Boro Glass–this class is full, please call to get on a waiting list.
Date and Time: 08/17/2025 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn to control and manipulate solid boro glass. Make a variety of sculptural pieces-plants and animals. Have a lot of fun exploring and creating unique pieces using heat and gravity.
Please call 319 338-1566 to get on a waiting list. When we have two people on the list, we will schedule another session.
New Class! Simple & Satisfying Macrame Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 05/24/2025 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Folsom
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use knotting cord and a few beads to make this straightforward, fast-moving, and adjustable bracelet. You’ll want to make them for all your friends and family.
New Class! Stripes and Dots
$120.00Date and Time: 04/26/2025 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic lampworking skills. See the intro class on April 5.
This intermediate lampworking class incorporates many basic skills into one beautiful bead. Create a bicone, make stripes with stringers and add layers of dots. This bead has movement, layers of embellishment, and hones your glass skills.
New Class! Whorled Wire Earrings–this class is full. Call 319-338-1566 to get on the waitlist
Date and Time: 06/01/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites:
Use varied sizes of wire, beads, and wire working tools, to create a fast and fun whorled, spiral pair of earrings. These look so much more complicated in wearing than they are in the making. No experience needed.
This class is full. Call 319-338-1566 to get on the waitlist. Once there are two names on the list, a new session can be scheduled.
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.
New Class! Zodiac Series: Aries Horn Curl Bracelet
$60.00Date and Time: 03/22/2025 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In the fourth of a yearlong series, make jewelry projects that correspond to the current Zodiac sign. March’s sign is Aries. In this class, you will design a multi-strand memory wire bracelet to symbolize the curling horn of a ram. Tune in each month for the next Zodiac project. Collect them all.
New Class! Zodiac Series: CRAW Crab Pendant
$72.00Date and Time: 06/21/2025 from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowhcuk
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW beading skills.
Make this 3-D crab pendant using cubed right angle weave (CRAW), brick stitch, and ladder stitch. This is the seventh of a yearlong series, making jewelry projects that correspond to the current Zodiac sign. Cancer is the sign for those with birthdays June 21 through July 22. Tune in each month for the next Zodiac project. Collect them all.
New Class! Zodiac Series: The Two Faces of Gemini Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 05/10/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Employ two-drop peyote stitch to create this pair of mirrored image earrings. This is the sixth of a yearlong series, making jewelry projects that correspond to the current Zodiac sign. Gemini is the sign for those with birthdays May 22 through June 21.
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.
Zodiac Series: Taurus Braided Leather Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 04/17/2025 from 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In the fifth of a yearlong series, make jewelry projects that correspond to the current Zodiac sign. Taurus is the sign for those with birthdays April 20 through May 20. In this class, you will design a braided leather bracelet. Tune in each month for the next Zodiac project. Collect them all.
New Class! Celtic Knot Bracelet–this class is full, please call to get on a waiting list.
Date 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.
Please call 319 338-1566 to get on a waiting list. When we have two people on the list, we will schedule another session.
Registration is $72 and includes all materials and instruction.
New Class! Teardrop Ruffle Earrings – 2 seats left!
$78.00Date and Time: 02/15/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Basic brick stitch skills. Call for a private tutorial or see our Owl Bookmark or Swallow Earrings kits.
This project uses a whip stitch around a teardrop armature. You then switch to brick stitch and begin creating the base for your ruffles. Begin adding multiple stitches in each space of the previous row to create full ruffles on the bottom of your earring.
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.