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New Class!! Woven Ring with Stone
$72.00Date and Time: 04/26/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity:
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: Any wire working experience.
Learn to create a woven wire bail to secure a stone in place. Then weave a band to size and connect your stone. Each ring is one of a kind.
Oriana Pendant: Bezeling with SuperDuos
$72.00Date and Time: 05/18/2024 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Use SuperDuos and 3 sizes of round Toho beads to create a beaded bezel around a Swarovski rivoli. This is an innovative pattern by Barbara Lepak that is secure and beautiful on the front and the back.
Sawing and Soldering
$88.00Date and Time: 06/30/2024 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 Pendant
$72.00Date and Time: 06/01/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
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. The fringe of the skirt creates a flowing earring or pendant. Choose your woman’s skin tone.
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.
Cosmic Horn Earrings–This class is full.
Date and Time: 10/09/2022 from 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 1
Instructor: Laurel Kubby
Prerequisites: Peyote stitch skills. Call for a private tutorial.
This class combines peyote-based geometric forms to create a pair of 3-dimensional earrings. You will learn to make two components as well as how to connect them.
Registration is $126 and includes all materials and instruction.
CRAW Fan Pendant
$78.00Date and Time: 09/03/2022 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW skills. Call for a private tutorial.
Use your cubed right angle weave skills to make a curved and embellished pendant. Make a match to use as earrings. This workshop uses three sizes of Toho seed beads.
Daisy Chain Headband–this class is full! Call to get on a waiting list.
Date and Time: 06/03/2023 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Get ready for summer festivals and gatherings. Learn a modification of flat right angle weave to make a classic flower headband. Make your piece adjustable so it fits just right whether you are gardening, walking in the woods, or dancing.
Please call 319 338-1566 to get on a waiting list. When we have two people on the waiting list, we will schedule another session. The registration is $68 and includes all materials and instruction.
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.