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Felting with Victor: Portraits & Landscapes
$68.00Date and Time: 12/09/2023 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Hone your needle felting skills by crafting a dimensional picture. Choose between a woman with flowing hair or a landscape. Create texture and dimension by adding layers of wool.
Felting with Victor: Potted Plants
$60.00Date and Time: 12/09/2023 from 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: Any needle felting experience.
Join Victor for another fun needle felting class. In this session, participants will make up to 2 potted plants—succulents, snake plants, vines—make a plant you can’t kill. New colors of sheep’s wool available.
Filigree Wire Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 09/19/2023 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: Any wireworking experience.
Practice your wire work skills with this fun and fast filigree earrings class. Use copper wire to secure 4mm beads in just the right places.
New Class! Filled CRAW Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 06/17/2023 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Cubed Right Angle Weave skills. Call for a private tutorial.
This technique is not found in any book or magazine. Create CRAW units with Toho 11/0 seed beads and “fill” each cube with a contrasting color. This is a quick and easy method of adding depth to your beadwork. Learn to stack units and create an “arrow” on the bottom of these earrings.
New Class! Finishing Cord Ends
$60.00Date and Time: 06/25/2022 from 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
It can be challenging to know how best to finish a cord. This workshop will cover using crimp ends, slip knots, and macramé knots. A great primer on cord ends.
New Class! Glass Chain
$120.00Date and Time: 10/24/2021 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glassblower
Prerequisites: Fundamentalsof Boro Class on Oct. 9.
Learn how to make glass chain from solid borosilicate glass. Each link is made inside of the previous link resulting in a solid chain. Instructor:
Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Boro Glass on Oct. 10. You must be 15 years old to register.
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: Cardinal Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 04/14/2023 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Create triangles with round seed beads and Delicas. See how the Gem Duos fit just perfectly to enhance the geometry of these earrings designed by Carolyn Cave? Connect the two piece and add a feather bead as a final touch.
New Class! Gyrls Night Out: CRAW Dangle Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 02/11/2022 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic cubed right angle weave skills. Call to schedule a private tutorial.
Make a Cubed Right Angle Weave beaded bead. Add an Italian dangle, some bead aligners and spacers to make a lovely dangly earring.
New Class! Herringbone Flower Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 05/13/2023 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic herringbone stitch experience.
Use increased herringbone stitch to create a flower shape using round Toho seed beads and Declicas. Then add some fire polish to create stamens or pistils. Add an ear wire and you are ready for wear.
Lygia Celebration Pendant
$72.00Date and Time: 08/31/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic peyote stitch skills.
Use Toho seed beads, peyote stitch and herringbone to make this colorful pendant. Learn to change colors and follow this pattern by Phyllis Dintenfass. Use both even count and odd count peyote stitch. This pattern works well in varied sizes of beads. Choose 8/0, 11/0, or 15/0 when you register.
New Class! Mesh and Silver Embellishment in Glass
$120.00Date and Time: 04/01/2023 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Introductory lampworking skills.
In this intermediate lampworking class, learn to add wire mesh and silver wire into your glass work. Both add dimension and depth in different ways.
New Class! Next Steps in Lampworking: Adventures in Dots
$120.00Date and Time: 02/12/2022 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Intro to Lampworking on Jan. 15 or show equivalent skills.
This is a great “next steps” class in lampworking. Hone your dot making skills. Create consistent footprints, layer dots, go wild and random, explore colors. Instructor: Karen Kubby.
New Class! Next Steps in Lampworking: Shaping Beads–FULL–Get on the waiting list!
Date and Time: 05/28/2022 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic lampworking skills. See Make Glass Beads on May 21.
This workshop will focus on using tools and gravity to shape beads. Participants will focus on making a bicone and vase shape. Lots of practice will lead to consistent results.
This class is full. To get on a waiting list, please call 319-338-1566. When we have 2 people on the list, we will schedule another session.
New Class! Ombre Fringed Wrapped Hoops
$78.00Date and Time: 03/19/2023 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: Ability to make a wrapped loop. Call for a private tutorial.
A great project for not only learning this weave. This class is an opportunity to hone your wrapped loop skills. Design an ombre set of fringes that is incorporated into the weave of the hoop. Create a beautiful pair of earrings.
Ombre Kumihimo Bracelet
$68.00 – $88.00Date and Time: 02/17/2024 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to create an ombre pattern and to do a classic round braid on a kumihimo foam disk (or bring your own marudai). This bracelet ends with a glue on plated magnetic clasp.
Tools needed are a kumihimo disk and 8 weighted bobbins.
New Class! Felting with Victor: Fringed Pendant
$68.00Date and Time: 03/18/2023 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Victor Schmidt
Prerequisites: Needle felting skills. See Felted Beads on Feb. 25.
Use your felting skills to create a pendant with a built-in bail. Create a felted design. Then add fringe with chain and beads. You will create a one-of-a-kind pendant that has lots of movement and swag.