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Kumihimo Beaded Bracelet
$98.00 – $116.00Date and Time: 10/07/2022 from 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Laurel Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
Learn beaded kumihimo or expand your finishing skills beyond glue-in endcaps. Learn how to finish your Kongoh Gumi (round braid) bracelet with cones, a wire wrapped loop, and a lobster clasp. Tools needed to bring or purchase include a kumihimo foam disk and 8 weighted thread lockers or a marudai and 8 70 gram tamas.
This class serves as a prerequisite for the Saturday’s class. If you take both Friday and Saturday classes and don’t have tools, you just need to purchase one set of tools.
Call 319 338-1566 if you want to sign up for all three of Laurel’s classes for $315, or $333 if you need tools provided.
Friday Night Out: Wire Bail Techniques–only one seat left!
$60.00Date and Time: 08/11/2023 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Call for a private tutorial.
We don’t mean hay bales when we are talking wirework. Learn to make bails using a variety of top drilled shapes. Wrapped bails will also be taught. You will get a chance to practice your wrapped loops in this class. Walk away with a small cache of dangles and pendants. This is a technique, not a project class.
Make a Pendulum
$72.00Date and Time: 06/12/2021 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Call for a private tutorial.
What better way to celebrate the upcoming Summer Solstice than to make a pendulum? Using stone, chain, and wire, students will create beautiful hanging points. Students will utilize a sampling of important fundamental skills–stringing, crimping, wrapped loops, and wire bails–and learn to use them together to make a swinging pendulum. It can be used for metaphysical practices, play, or simply as a pretty sun catcher. A discussion on how to use them will follow.
Clover Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 02/20/2021 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Learn and hone your herringbone skills in this project that utilizes various sizes of Toho round see beads to make curves. Surround a glass bead with seed bead weaving and make these lovely clover earrings.
Beadazzled Face Shield through Kirkwood
Date and Time: 02/23/2021 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alysaa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Everyone needs a variety of masks and shields to protect themselves and each other and remain fashionable. Make a blingy and colorful shield by beadazzling colorful and sparkly jewels onto the top. Shields are made locally at the Iowa City Fab Lab.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
www.kirkwood.edu and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under the instructor search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
$30 instructor fee/$25 materials fee.
Gyrls Night Out: Flapjack Earrings with Chain–only one seat left!
$72.00Date and Time: 02/26/2021 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Make 3 Pairs of Earrings on Jan. 16 or call for a private tutorial.
Hone your wire working skills to make a wire link to connect chain to a handmade glass disk. These earrings have great movement and pizazz.
Copper Chandelier Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 02/27/2021 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alysaa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Make 3 Pairs of Earrings on Jan. 16 or call for a private tutorial.
Use a chandelier armature to hang wrapped loops of increasing lengths to make a pair of dangly earrings. You will get lots of practice with your wire working skills.
Seed Bead Weaving 101
$98.00Date and Time: 03/06/2021 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Participants in this full day workshop will learn about the materials and techniques used in off loom seed bead weaving. 2 fundamental stitches will be explored: peyote and, herringbone. Both stitches can be done flat or tubular. This class will be a supportive emersion into this slightly addictive art form.
RBG Collar Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 09/11/2022 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15,1933- Sept. 18,2020) was nominated by President Clinton in 1993 to become a Justice of the United States of America’s Supreme Court. This project is in honor of RBG’s commitment to gender equity by creating a mini version of her iconic collars. Participants will form a metal armature around which the beaded collar will be created using brick stitch, netting, and picots. Then add a scales of justice charm to complete the project.
Pearl & Peyote Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 03/26/2022 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic peyote stitch skills. See Peyote Techniques class on March 12 or call for a private tutorial.
Using peyote stitch, make an embellished ring. Learn an innovative technique to dangle a freshwater pearl in the center of the ring. Add some matching pearls on top and an ear wire and you are ready to wear your new earrings.
Feather Bracelet
$72.00Date and Time: 10/21/2023 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
You’ve not worked daisy chain like this before. Use feather beads and crystals to make a flowing bracelet using a traditional daisy chain stitch (right angle weave). Then add a layer of embellishment.
Encasing Glass Beads–only one seat left!
$105.00Date and Time: 03/20/2021 from -
Capacity: 4
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic lampworking skills. Call to schedule a private tutorial.
This is an intermediate lampworking class for those who have some experience and are looking for assistance taking their glass work to the next level. Learn to encase beads with transparent colors using three different methods—with a large gather, by overlapping layers from one side to the other, and a hybrid strategy.
Basket Weave Cuff
$88.00Date and Time: 03/21/2021 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: wirework experience--see Wire Heart Pendant on May 26.
This is the last of a 3-part series of wirework projects using basket weave. Use 7 base wires and 3 simultaneous weaving wires to create the pattern for this cuff bracelet. Tips and tricks for controlling long lengths of wire will be shared. Learn how to end the weaving wires, finish the ends and shape the cuff.
Superduo Leaf Earrings through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 03/23/2021 from -
Capacity: 4
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use a two-needle beading technique and 2-hole Super Duo beads to create a beaded leaf. Pull tight for more dimension to your leaf. Add an ear wire and you are ready to go. This is a challenging, yet delightful and very doable project. You will love the results. No experience needed.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
www.kirkwood.edu and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under the instructor search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.
Gyrls Night Out: Star Light, Star Bright Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 05/12/2023 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This star pattern component can be used as earrings or a pendant, beaded together for a bracelet, and hung from a window or tree as an ornament. Use a combination of 2-hole beads, Czech pressed glass, and Toho round and Demi seed beads for this fast and fun project. This pattern is by TrendSetter Olga Haserodt.
Wire Heart Pendant–Just in time for V-Day–this class is full–call to get on a waiting list.
Date and Time: 01/23/2022 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Participants will learn to weave three stands of copper wire together, bending them into shape and anchoring the ends. A simple bail will also be created bending wire. Variations to this pendant and ways to approach different shapes will be discussed. Just in time for Valentine’s Day.
This class serves as a great intro to this technique for other wire weaving classes by Zanetta, including Prong Set Pendant on Sun., March 20.
Call 319 338-1566 to get on a waiting list. When we have 2 on the list, we will schedule another session.