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Gyrls Night Out: CRAW and Lampwork Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 09/25/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW skills
Use your CRAW skills to make a layered beaded bead. Then switch to your wireworking skills to create a lovely pair of earrings that end with a handmade glass bead.
During the COVID-19 recovery period, classes are limited to 6 people on a first come first served basis via paying the registration fee. Face coverings must be worn during class and participants will be spaced at least 6 feet from each other. Tools will not be shared and will be cleaned before and after use. Please call for more details about our safety protocols. Demos done through Zoom.
Gyrls Night Out: Caramel’s Acorn Earrings
$67.00Date and Time: 10/16/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic Peyote Skills
These seasonal earrings will be creating following a pattern by Marsha Wiest-Hines in the October issue of Bead & Button magazine. Use tubular peyote, with 2-hole crescent beads, Toho demis, and round seed beads. Be careful of squirrels following you when wearing these earrings.
The cost of this class includes the cost of the magazine. If you have the magazine, please call 319 338-1566 to register.
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: 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! 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! 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.
Next Steps in Boro Glass Work: Wings-n-Things
$105.00Date and Time: 11/10/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI’s Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: Intro to Boro on Nov. 3
Take your nexts steps in manipulating boro glass. Learn to shape, sculpt, and carve glass to make wings and things.
Next Steps in Hollow Boro Glass: Blown Spheres
$105.00Date and Time: 03/15/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: UI Scientific Glass Blower Benjamin Revis
Prerequisites: Intro to Hollow Glass Work on March 1.
Learn to manipulate and blow hollow tubing to create a sphere. Then learn to make a bail (loop) so you can hang your spheres.
Peyote Stitch Beaded Beads through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 05/20/2019 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Weaving with beads isn’t has complicated as it looks. Peyote stitch is a versatile and often used seed bead weaving technique. Students will make beads by beading a rectangle, embellishing it if you choose, then folding and zipping it closed to make a tight and seamless tube. Samples of finished jewelry using peyote stitch will be available.
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. Instructor: Karen Kubby.
$30 instructor fee/$30 materials fee.
Super Sparkle Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 07/06/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: basic CRAW skills
Use your cubed right angle weave skills to make a square with Toho seed beads. Then use vintage montees (crystals with a cross channel backing) to embellish the front and sides of your square.
Techniques and Strategies for Multi-Strand Pieces through Kirkwood
Date and Time: 09/19/2019 from -
Capacity: 12
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Join us in a new kind of workshop for Beadology Iowa. This workshop will be a combination of lecturettes, demonstrations, and experiential learning about the various techniques and strategies for designing and creating multi-strand pieces. Participants are encouraged to bring multi-strand pieces in their collection—those that work and those that don’t—to be incorporated into the conversation.
The picture to the left is one example of a multi-strand necklace.
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.
$60 instructor fee through Kirkwood.
Tricks & Tips for Creating Asymmetrical Jewelry
$78.00Date and Time: 11/07/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This workshop will be a combination of lecturettes, demonstrations, and experiential learning about the various tips and techniques for designing and creating asymmetrical pieces. Participants are encouraged to bring asymmetrical pieces from their collection—those that work and those that don’t—to be incorporated into the conversation.
Triple Braid Wire Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 11/08/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use copper wire to braid a 3-stranded bracelet. Learn to connect them cleanly and create a unique clasp. This class has some repetition, so you build your wirework skills.
CRAW Links
$78.00Date and Time: 11/14/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic cubed right angle weave skills. Call to schedule a private tutorial.
Make cubed right angle weave (CRAW) frames and learn to connect them with peyote and brick stitch to make a negative space bracelet. Two different embellishment techniques make this a great project for learning how to combine different beading stitches and three bead sizes to create a fun and wearable bracelet. This bracelet can be made into a bangle or attach a clasp.
New Class! Designing with CRAW Chain
$68.00Date and Time: 09/19/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic CRAW skills
Participants will make a long cubed right angle weave chain with one size of round Toho beads. Decisions on where to stitch the chain together will be determined by the student. There are endless ways to use this strategy to complete a unique piece. Tips and tricks for this decision making will be shared.
During the COVID-19 recovery period, classes are limited to 6 people on a first come first served basis via paying the registration fee. Face coverings must be worn during class and participants will be spaced at least 6 feet from each other. Tools will not be shared and will be cleaned before and after use. Please call for more details about our safety protocols. Demos done through Zoom.