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New Class! Woven Infinity Ring
$78.00Date and Time: 03/30/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: Any wire weaving (not just wirework) experience.
This ring is a great intermediate wire weaving project. Use different shapes, sizes, and colors of wires to weave a substantial wire ring. Learn to size a ring to fit just right. You’ll want to make one of these rings for everyone you know.
New Class! Beaded Bead on Beaded Chain
$78.00Date and Time: 04/19/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Create a beaded bead with SuperDuos and Toho round seed beads. Then create an interlocking chain that goes through the bead.
New Class! Blowing and Using Shards–this class is full. Please call to get on a waiting list.
Date and Time: 06/21/2025 from 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any lampworking experience.
This intermediate lampworking class has you blowing glass bubbles using a hollow mandrel. Break up your bubble and use that glass to embellish a bead. There will be lots of experimentation, using glass, silver foil, enamel powers, and frit.
This class is full. 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! Branched Fringe Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 05/24/2025 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Create the top of the earring with brick stitch. Then learn tips and tricks for making frothy fringe that sits tight yet has a lot of movement. Embellish the earring with larger beads.
New Class! Framed Jewels Bracelet
$78.00Date and Time: 12/13/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Using a pattern by Leslie A. Pope, use 2-hole cabs, GemDuos, and Toho round seed beads to make a wide beaded bracelet with loads of personality. High contrasting colors really show off the pattern.
New Class! GemDuo Collar
$88.00Date and Time: 07/05/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This Egyptian inspired collar uses GemDuo two holed beads, feather beads, and Toho round seed beads. The center piece is longer and has a lot of focal fringes with dangles.
New Class! Lion’s Mane Collar
$78.00Date and Time: 07/26/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowhcuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use traditional and unique netting stitches along with bright Toho seed bead colors to create a collar reminiscent of a lion’s mane. Wear it with pride.
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! 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 Ornament
$156.00Date and Time: 11/30/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Marilyn Moore
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Using Teneriffe Embroidery, the lacy embellishment used in pine needle basketry,
students learn to make either a Tree or Angel as the center for this 3” ornament. Once this is completed students will attach pine needles and learn basic pine needle coiling, including wheat and fern stitches.
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! Pysanka: Ukrainian-style Egg Dyeing–only 2 seats left!
$98.00Date and Time: 10/18/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Harper Folsom
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Join new guest instructor Harper Folsom. Learn a Ukrainian egg dyeing technique, called Pysanka. This technique uses multiple colors of dye, done in layers with wax resist, to create detailed designs. Up to three eggs per person will be made.
The eggs need to be varnished and emptied after the dyeing process is complete. This will be done by the instructor. Participants can pick up their work starting on Sat. Oct. 25.
New Class! Scorpion Wire Sculpture
$68.00Date and Time: 10/25/2025 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Charlie Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Using basic wire working tools—round nose pliers, chain nose pliers, nylon jaw pliers, and wire cutter–sculpt a fantastic scorpion sculpture using copper wire. This is Scorpio time in the astrological calendar and which deserves to be celebrated!
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! Watermelon Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 07/12/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Emma Folsom
Prerequisites: Basic peyote stitch skills.
Use peyote stitch to create two sides of a watermelon slice—seeds and all. Then learn to create your own flat pad and post, including the security notch at the end. Sew your watermelon slices together around your flat pad and add an ear nut. Ready for a picnic!