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New Class! Flamework Headpins with National Guest Instructor Patty Lakinsmith
$138.00Date and Time: 08/06/2017 from -
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Patty Lakinsmith
Prerequisites: Make Glass Beads or Advanced Beginner Experience
Are you ready to take our headpins to the next level? Or maybe you haven’t tried them and you need a few tips to get started. This in-depth full day workshop will have you making beautiful, well-matched intricate headpin elements perfect for earrings or focal pendants. You will start with simple designs and end with more advanced styles. Participants will learn heat control, how glass moves, and how to make two identically sized headpins sequentially, all while learning over half a dozen designs.
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: CRAW Circle Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 02/14/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW skills—see Intro to CRAW on Feb. 1.
Using two sizes of Toho round beads and Cubed Right Angle weave to make a curved piece. Connect it into a circle. Embellish the circle on the bottom with more CRAW units and the sides with stitchin’ in the ditch. This is a fun way to use your CRAW skills.
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: Fancy Beaded Earwires
$60.00Date and Time: 01/24/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Using resin flowers, chain, and a dangle, design an earring where the ear wire is part of the design. Participants will manipulate sterling wire to shape the earwire, harden the wire,, and file the end to ensure smooth entry into your ear.
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: Finish Line
$38.00Date and Time: 07/28/2017 from -
Capacity: 10
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites:
Get assistance with your unfinished projects. Bring those almost done items and challenge Karen to remember details to get you back on track. Get to your finish line with support and encouragement. Optional dutch treat food and drink for those wanting to participate after class.
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: Owl Bookmark
$60.00Date and Time: 03/20/2020 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Brick stitch is an off-loom seed bead weaving stitch that can be made into endless patterns. In this class, use Delica beads in brick stitch to create an owl motif. Then glue it onto a bookmark. A perfect combination for beading in the City of Literature. These owls make awesome earrings, too.
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: CRAW Square Earrings–only 2 seats left!
$60.00Date and Time: 06/29/2018 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use or gain cubed right angle weave (CRAW) skills to make a square made up of 4 cubes using 6/0 Toho round beads. Then use this square as a bead and add spacers and a larger piece of Czech pressed glass to make a lovely pair of earrings. Dutch treat snacks and drinks downtown for those who want to participate.
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.
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! 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.
Take Flight Beaded Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 10/17/2020 from -
Capacity: 3
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
This bracelet by Starman’s Trendsetter Olga Haserodt is built by making 2 sections of beading in mirror images using GemDuos and Toho round beads. Then sew them together with 2-hole cabochons and Toho Demis. The kit comes with a base metal magnetic clasp.