Felting with Charlie: Bead Making
$68.00Date and Time: 12/20/2025 from 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Charlie Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This is a great introduction to needle felting. Take wool, a needle, and a bit of sweat equity and make a felted bead. Learn how to make a hole in your felted wool, how to add color, and how to increase the density of your bead.
Spinner Ring
$88.00Date and Time: 12/21/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: Basic soldering skills.
Use your soldering skills to make a ring band. Then make a smaller ring that will spin freely around the band. A fascinating piece of jewelry to help you through the stress of the day. Click for more information and a video!
Customer Choice
Date and Time: 12/27/2025 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity:
Instructor: Karen Kubby, Charlie Jakowchuk, and Emma Folsom
Prerequisites:
Pick your staff person, pick your time, and pick the skill you want to learn or refresh. Brainstorm with our expert staff on how to begin or finish a project. Get some one-on-one time for anything we know how to do. Sessions are $35 per person, are 45 minutes long, and begin on the hour. Materials are extra or bring your own.
You’ll need to call 319 338-1566 or come in to register for a time slot or slots.
French Flowers & Leaves
$78.00Date and Time: 01/04/2026 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Cheryl Weatherford
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn the art of using wire and beads using a French technique to create a variety of flowers and leaves. Put them together for a small bouquet.
Stacked Textured Rings
$88.00Date and Time: 01/11/2026 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn to texturize brass and silver rings. Then size it to fit. Get or hone your soldering skills to complete your ring. Learn good clean up techniques. Make a few to stack. This is a great intro to soldering.
This class serves as a soldering prerequisite for next steps metalworking classes by Maggie.
New Class!! Diamond Fringe Earrings
$78.00Date and Time: 01/17/2026 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use whip stitch and brick stitch to hang fringe from a diamond shaped armature. Learn tips and tricks for fringe that hangs just right. Add a few dangles in the middle of the diamond and you have a classic yet contemporary pair of earrings.
Intro to Solid Borosilicate Glass
$128.00Date and Time: 01/18/2026 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn how to manipulate solid borosilicate glass. Participants will make a variety of shapes that create glass skills of pushing, pulling, adding color, and making a bail. Shapes worked on in class include a pawn, basic marble, icicle pendant, and a mushroom pendant.
This class serves as the prerequisite for other Boro classes.
Prairie Bracelet through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 01/19/2026 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use GemDuos, SuperDuos, Czech fire polish, and Toho seed beads to make this lovely bracelet. This a fun and fast project. This pattern makes for a beautiful close-up necklace as well.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
kirkwood.edu On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
Friday Night Out: Byzantine Chain Maille Bracelet
$68.00Date and Time: 01/23/2026 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn the basics of Byzantine chain maille to make a bracelet. Chain maille is a technique of taking individual open jump rings and putting them together to form a mesh or chain. Proper tool handling and opening and closing of rings will be emphasized.
New Class! Zipper Pull or Bag Accessory
$60.00Date and Time: 01/24/2026 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Charlie Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn to make a wrapped loop using three fundamental jewelry making tools. Design a bauble for the bottom of a chain and connect it with wire work. A wrapped loop is stronger and more secure than an open loop—perfect for zipper pulls or bag accessories that need durability. Each participant will make two pulls and/or accessories.
Pop-up Card & Envelope–Great for V-Day!
$60.00Date and Time: 01/24/2026 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Charlie Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn the art of folding paper to create a simple pop-up card. Create a matching envelope. No beads involved in this project. This card will have to go to someone special. A beautiful Valentine’s Day gift.
Wire Heart Pendant–Great V-Day Gift!
$78.00Date and Time: 01/25/2026 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Participants will learn to weave three strands of copper wire together, bending them into shape and anchoring the ends. A simple bail will also be created by 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 Woven Bar Earring on Sun., Feb. 15.
New Class! Kashmir Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 12/20/2025 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Bezel a round Czech glass bead with Toho seed beads for the center of this fast-moving earring. Then create picots, stitch in Superdous and fire polish beads to make this lovely pair of beaded earrings. Pattern design by Nela Kábelová.