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New Class! Gyrls Night Out: Sterling Heart Toggle Clasp
$98.00Date and Time: 02/09/2018 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Kelly Kinser
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use sterling wire to create both sides of a heart shaped toggle clasp. Perfect for a Valentine’s Day piece and just as great for every day. Dutch treat snacks and drinks downtown for those who want to participate.
New Class! Make a Sterling “S” Hook Clasp
$98.00Date and Time: 02/24/2018 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Kelly Kinser
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use sterling wire to create your own “S” Hook Clasp. This allows you to customize your clasp to best fit the design of a piece of jewelry you have made.
New Class! Metal Bails & Bead Caps
$98.00Date and Time: 03/04/2018 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Kelly Kinser
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Create your own findings. Another fast and fun workshop in our metalworking series. Saw, bend, dap, drill and hammer metal and wire into bails and bead caps. Picture coming soon!
New Class! Metals Smorgasbord
$128.00Date and Time: 07/15/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Holland Houdek
Prerequisites: Soldering skills
Holland Houdek, our metals instructor, is leaving to head up a metals department at a university in another state. This will be her last class and will be a full day of soldering, sawing, filing, drilling, bezeling, and etching. Come for a full day of metalworking review.
New Class! Mini Posey Basket
$138.00Date and Time: 05/27/2018 from -
Capacity: 12
Instructor: Marilyn Moore
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This sweet little basket is perfect for you to imagine gathering the first flowers of spring. Explore twining with fine wire, blending color then making a handle to turn this into the basket for your dreams of spring.
New Class! On the Edge Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 06/24/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
This wide, yet supple cuff bracelet is made with CzechMates lentil beads, Czech fire polish beads, Toho demis, and Toho round seed beads. The pattern comes from Anna Elizabeth Draeger‘s book Jewelry Designs with Czechmates Beads and is taught with permission from the publisher. This book is available at the store.
New Class! Peyote Slide on Spiral Herringbone
$72.00Date and Time: 02/22/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Flat peyote skills—see class on Jan. 11.
Students will learn or review spiral herringbone and make a lariat. A slide to connect two sides of the lariat will be made with Delicas with peyote stitch. The slide has to be just the right tension around the lariat—not too loose or it will slip, and not too tight or it won’t slide.
New Class! Pride Chain Maille Bracelet
$58.00Date and Time: 05/13/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn the best technique for opening and closing rings with 2 flat nose pliers. Create a simple, yet great looking bracelet by making links with the rings in the colors of the rainbow to make a Pride bracelet. You’ll have time to make more for friends before Pride Month activities.
Raised Diamond Bracelet
$78.00Date and Time: 07/02/2022 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Flat even count peyote stitch skills
Put your flat even count peyote stitch skills to the test. Use a background of Delicas and 3 sizes of Toho round seed beads to create a repeating pattern that undulates beautifully. The focus of this class will be about following a pattern and pulling tight to synch down when decreasing. Participants will likely not finish this project and the beaded toggle is not part of the class, although the kit will have enough beads in it to make one.
New Class! Roaring Twenties Necklace with Branched Fringe
$68.00Date and Time: 11/18/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Discover an easy to learn netting stitch from the Roaring Twenties using Toho seed beads. No book or magazine uses this stitch in a project—it is an exclusive Beadology Iowa stitch. You will create a graceful lariat with frothy fringe embellished with Czech pressed glass.
New Class! Swarovski CRAW Bracelet
$88.00Date and Time: 03/21/2020 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Cubed Right-Angle Weave Skills
Swarovski crystals make this bracelet pure sparkle. Use your cubed right-angle weave skills to create a simple band. Then embellish it with Toho round seed beads. Finish your bracelet with a secure magnetic clasp.
Boro Beads
$120.00Date and Time: 09/30/2023 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any lampworking experience.
This is an intermediate class for those with some lampworking experience. Use borosilicate glass to make glass beads.
New Class! Twin Tracks Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 07/29/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
This wide and undulating bracelet is made with CzechMates lentil beads, Czech fire polish beads, and Toho round seed beads. You can repeat this pattern using Superduos or Bricks for a completely different look. The pattern comes from Anna Elizabeth Draeger‘s book Jewelry Designs with Czechmates Beads and is taught with permission from the publisher. This book is available at the store.
NEW CLASS!! Sea Urchin Wire Pendant
$98.00Date and Time: 11/12/2016 from -
Capacity: 12
Instructor: Marilyn Moore
Prerequisites: Basic crochet skills--see Crochet and Bead Wrapped Bracelet/Necklace on Nov. 5
Using a stone donut as an armature, knit and crochet with wire and Swarovski crystals or pearls to create an elegant pendant. The design is reminiscent of a sea urchin.
NEW CLASS!! Embellished Cubed Right Angle Weave Pendant
$128.00Date and Time: 10/29/2016 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Laurel Kubby
Prerequisites: Cubed Right Angle Weave (CRAW)--see Intro to CRAW on October 22.
In this class you will learn the difference between pyramidal RAW (PRAW) and cubic RAW (CRAW). This pendant uses several principles – PRAW, using multiple bead sizes in CRAW, and embellishing with the new Toho demi-round beads. These principles lend themselves to many design ideas and variations. This pendant is reminiscent of Old Capitol. Instructor: Laurel Kubby
NOTE: Take all three of Laurel’s classes for $260—Save $44!!
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: Stardust Earrings
$58.00Date and Time: 04/14/2017 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Use Swarovski crystals and Toho round seed beads to create this lovely earring design by Isabella Lam, featured in her new book Beautiful Beadweaving. Learn a new way to bezel a rivoli. Then use a modified netting technique to add even more bling to this earring. A fast and fun class. Optional dutch treat snacks and cocktails downtown after class.