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New Class! Mini Posey Basket
$138.00Date and Time: 05/27/2018 from -
Capacity: 12
Instructor: Marilyn Moore
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This sweet little basket is perfect for you to imagine gathering the first flowers of spring. Explore twining with fine wire, blending color then making a handle to turn this into the basket for your dreams of spring.
New Class! On the Edge Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 06/24/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
This wide, yet supple cuff bracelet is made with CzechMates lentil beads, Czech fire polish beads, Toho demis, and Toho round seed beads. The pattern comes from Anna Elizabeth Draeger‘s book Jewelry Designs with Czechmates Beads and is taught with permission from the publisher. This book is available at the store.
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! Pride Chain Maille Bracelet
$58.00Date and Time: 05/13/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn the best technique for opening and closing rings with 2 flat nose pliers. Create a simple, yet great looking bracelet by making links with the rings in the colors of the rainbow to make a Pride bracelet. You’ll have time to make more for friends before Pride Month activities.
New Class! Roaring Twenties Necklace with Branched Fringe
$68.00Date and Time: 11/18/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Discover an easy to learn netting stitch from the Roaring Twenties using Toho seed beads. No book or magazine uses this stitch in a project—it is an exclusive Beadology Iowa stitch. You will create a graceful lariat with frothy fringe embellished with Czech pressed glass.
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.
New Class! Twin Tracks Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 07/29/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
This wide and undulating bracelet is made with CzechMates lentil beads, Czech fire polish beads, and Toho round seed beads. You can repeat this pattern using Superduos or Bricks for a completely different look. The pattern comes from Anna Elizabeth Draeger‘s book Jewelry Designs with Czechmates Beads and is taught with permission from the publisher. This book is available at the store.
NEW CLASS!! Victorian Lace Wire Bracelet
$98.00Date and Time: 05/21/2017 from -
Capacity: 12
Instructor: Marilyn Moore
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This lacy bracelet which is reminiscent of something from the Victorian age, is simple yet elegant and can be made using a simple knitting stitch. Make it as wide or narrow as you prefer. This piece uses fine wire in the color of your choice,Toho seed beads, and a crochet hook to knit your bracelet.
New Event! Make-n-Take Bracelet
Date and Time: 05/20/2017 from -
Capacity:
Instructor:
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Come in at your leisure with friends and family to learn how to use flexible wire and beads to make a secure and lovely bracelet. A variety of materials will be on hand for your use. Beadology Iowa staff will be available to assist you in gaining this new-found skill.
$15/bracelet—family friendly.
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 Boro: Marble Making
$98.00Date and Time: 04/09/2017 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: Intro to Boro on April 2 or demonstrated equivalent skill set
Use solid boro glass rods to create marbles. This is a “next steps” class that will give participants a deeper understanding of the techniques needed to be successful in marble making. Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI Scientific Glass Blower.
Take both Intro to Boro and Marble Making for double rewards points.
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.
Next Steps in Hollow Glass Work: Tubular Triangle
$105.00Date and Time: 09/16/2018 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Benjamin Revis, UI’s Scientific Glass Blower
Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Hollow Glass on Sept. 9 or equivalent skills.
Now that you know how to manipulate a hollow tube into a sphere, here is your next step. Learn to gently manipulate hollow boro glass into a triangle. Add it to your percussion instrument collection or call everyone in for dinner.
Next Steps in Soft Glass: Florals Under Glass–1 seat left!
$105.00Date and Time: 09/30/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Wendy Ford
Prerequisites: Flame I or equivalent flamework skills.
Learn to layer effetre glass and make floral images under a clear encasing. Students will review making a solid core bead, making your own stringers, and making flowers with dots, stringers, plunging, and twisting. The final step will be to encase this embellished bead with clear glass. The result is a bouquet under glass.
Peyote Stitch Basics
$58.00Date and Time: 03/24/2018 from -
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Peyote stitch is a basic and incredibly versatile seed bead weaving technique. Beading magazines have many projects that utilize peyote stitch. This workshop will share flat and tubular peyote, even count, using Toho and Delica seed beads. Learn when to use each stitch and walk away with samples of each.
This class is a prerequisite for Color Gradient and Raised Triangle Earrings—both scheduled in April.
New Class! Metals Smorgasbord
$128.00Date and Time: 07/15/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Holland Houdek
Prerequisites: Soldering skills
Holland Houdek, our metals instructor, is leaving to head up a metals department at a university in another state. This will be her last class and will be a full day of soldering, sawing, filing, drilling, bezeling, and etching. Come for a full day of metalworking review.