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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.
New Class! Rhombic Triacontahedron: 30-sided ball Session II
$126.00Date and Time: 02/03/2024 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Jim Emigh
Prerequisites: Basic peyote stitch skills. See Branched Fringe Earrings on Jan. 13.
Sat., Jan. 27 & Sat., Feb. 3, 10am-1pm both sessions: –$126. This is the second session.
Stitch 20 triangles using peyote stitch and learn how to sew them together to make this visually stunning 30-sided ball. In session one, learn to make the triangles and make as many as you can. The second session will focus on assembly. Participants are expected to come to the second session with 20 triangles (homework!).
New Class! Rhombic Triacontahedron: 30-sided ball.
$126.00Date and Time: 01/27/2024 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Jim Emigh
Prerequisites: Basic peyote stitch skills. See Branched Fringe Earrings on Jan. 13.
Sat., Jan. 27 & Sat., Feb. 3, 10am-1pm both sessions: –$126.
Stitch 20 triangles using peyote stitch and learn how to sew them together to make this visually stunning 30-sided ball. In session one, learn to make the triangles and make as many as you can. The second session will focus on assembly. Participants are expected to come to the second session with 20 triangles (homework!).
New Class! Triple Tiered Wave Earrings–only 2 seats left!
$78.00Date and Time: 02/04/2024 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In this newest class by designer Cheryl Weatherford, create waves with wire that are filled by varied stones and crystals. Craft a simple, yet innovative hinge at the top from which to hang your ear wire.
New Class! Twisted Wire Jewelry – this class is full, please call to get on a waiting list!
Date and Time: 03/24/2024 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Twist 10-gauge wire into a thick and beautiful cane. Manipulate the wire into shapes and cut it to create a bracelet, earrings, pendant, and/or charm. Oxidize the wire to magnify the twist.
To get on the waiting list, please call 319 338-1566. When two people are on the list, we will schedule another session. Registration is $88 and includes all instruction, materials, supplies, and use of tools during class.
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.
New Class! Felting with Victor: Mermaid Tail
$68.00Date and Time: 04/13/2024 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Make a whimsical needle felted mermaid tail from a variety of colorful wool choices. Needle felting is a process of using barbed needles to turn wool fibers into a more concentrated material. Decorate your pendant and make a bail.