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Gyrls Night Out: Centerline™ Adjustable Scallop Cuff
$68.00Date and Time: 08/23/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use a new product out on the bead market—an adjustable cuff bracelet. Learn to weave Miyuki Delic 11/0 beads into the cuff. This is a beautiful, fun and fast weaving project. No experience needed. Option dutch treat drinks and snacks in downtown Iowa City after class.
Gyrls Night Out: Gemstone Circle Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 12/13/2019 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Tubular Peyote skills.
Use your peyote skills to a make a ring. Combine Toho round seed beads with small gemstone beads to add an extra dimension not frequently found in the bead world.
Gyrls Night Out: Winged Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 11/08/2019 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic Peyote Skills
Use a combination of peyote stitch and herringbone with Delica 11/0 beads to create a small wing. Sew this wing together and embellish with a larger focal bead. Add an ear wire and you are ready for the weekend. Optional dutch treat snacks and drinks after class in a nearby downtown location.
Russian Leaf Pendant through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 08/03/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use your peyote skills to learn diagonal peyote with Delica seed beads. Embellish your leaf with Toho round seed beads. These leaves are wonderful as a pendant, earrings, or a branch full of them cascading down a lariat. Modifications to make them thinner, wider, and longer will be discussed.
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/$28 materials fee to be paid before class. Class conducted in room 054 of the Kirkwood Regional Center on the UI Campus at 2301 Oakdale Blvd, in Coralville.
During the COVID-19 recovery period, classes are limited to 6 people on a first come first served basis via paying the registration fee. Masks 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 after use. Please call for more details about our safety protocols.
All the Right Angles Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 08/08/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Cubed Right-angle Weave skills
Learn to create cubed right-angle shapes and make connections with cubed right-angle weave to make a pair of elegant earrings. A special technique to make the bottom of the earring will be shared. This project is using size 11/0 true cuts. Be sure to bring your reading glasses with you! Instructor: Karen Kubby.
Prerequisite: cubed right-angle weave skills.
During the COVID-19 recovery period, classes are limited to 6 people on a first come first served basis via paying the registration fee. Masks 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.
Beaded Chain Bootcamp–2 seats left!
$138.00Date and Time: 08/29/2020 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Laurel Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
This workshop will share 7 stitches that can be used in a beaded chain or lariat. Learn the stitch, practice a few inches and end up with a sampler style necklace of all the options presented. Discussion will include how to decide which stitch may best suit your purpose.
During the COVID-19 recovery period, classes are limited to 6 people on a first come first served basis via paying the registration fee. Masks 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.
Patterned Peyote with a Twist Slide–only 1 seat left!
$138.00Date and Time: 08/30/2020 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Laurel Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic Peyote Skills--see Beaded Ring class on August 14 or call for a private tutorial.
Bead crochet not your thing? Learn to use peyote stitch to mimic single stitch bead crochet. This technique was introduced in 2017 by Gerlinde Lenz. Participants will learn to follow a pattern that will repeat, so you get the hang of it. Be prepared to want more after learning this clever, addictive variation of peyote stitch. The end product is a slide to add to a lariat of your choice.
During the COVID-19 recovery period, classes are limited to 6 people on a first come first served basis via paying the registration fee. Masks 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.
Gyrls Night Out: Flip It! Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 10/12/2018 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Many want to flip the House of Representatives to Democratic Control. We want you to learn to use brick stitch, Toho seed beads, and a rubber ring to make a pair of earrings that use two high contrast colors that are “flipped” on each half of the earring. Optional dutch treat cocktails and snacks after class.
Gyrls Night Out: Swarovski Cubed Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 04/12/2019 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic cubed right angle weave skills.
Use your cubed right angle weave (CRAW) skills to make one unit using Swarovski crystals. Embellish your crystal cube and fashion them into earrings.
Herringbone Beaded Bead Earrings
$60.00Date and Time: 02/09/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Herringbone stitch basics.
Use herringbone stitch using Miyuki Delica cylinder seed beads to make beaded beads. Use these beads along with Swarovski crystals to make a pair of earrings.
Herringbone Cuff Bracelet
$72.00Date and Time: 05/11/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn herringbone, or Ndeble stitch, a fundamental stitch used in many contemporary bead books and magazine projects. Participants will use Toho seed beads and bugle beads to learn to increase to make their piece wider in the middle and how to decrease to bring the end of their cuff down to the original width near the clasp. The end result is a fun and fast beaded cuff bracelet.
Introduction to Cubed Right Angle Weave–CRAW–through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 09/14/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Cubed Right Angle Weave (CRAW) is a fun and fascinating stitch. It is hard to learn from video or written instructions. In this class, you will learn CRAW techniques with Toho 8/0 beads. This is not a projects class. You will leave with a sample of CRAW. The picture is of a small pendant using CRAW.
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/$28 materials fee
Wide and Textured 20’s Weave Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 09/12/2020 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
This project provides lots of practice with a netting stitch. The embellishment is an innovate modification that provides texture through connecting sections of the bracelet together, rather than adding additional elements.
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.
Lace Earrings
$88.00Date and Time: 12/17/2022 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Learn to net on both sides of a beaded spine to make incredible lace earrings. Instruction on color grading will be provided. Embellish the tips of the lace to really create some flare. We will be using size 11° and 15° seed beads.
New Class! Beaded Cocktail Ring
$58.00Date and Time: 11/11/2017 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Use two-holed pyramid and super duos along with round seed beads to construct an elegant cocktail ring. This ring is built to suit, so if you are making this for someone else, be sure to bring their ring size. Many beaded rings are made with elastic–this ring is not.
Gyrls Night Out: Bezel a Rivoli with 2-hole Beads
$58.00Date and Time: 09/15/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Learn to use 2-hole Superduos and Toho seed beads with netting stitch to bezel around a Swarovski rivoli. This is a fun and fast technique to capture a focal bead to create a pendant or earrings.