New Class! Forged Wire Fringe Earrings–only 2 seats left!
$88.00Date and Time: 07/28/2024 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Participants will embellish a copper blank by stamping or pounding it. Holes will be drilled at the bottom. Silver wire will be balled up with heat, beads added, and the bottom forged to capture the beads on the wire. No experience needed.
SuperDuo Ombre Rope Bracelet through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 07/29/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Allow Beadology Iowa staff to guide you through this pattern by Susan Sassoon to make a flowing rope bracelet. Use 3 colors of SuperDuos, Toho round seed beads, and a magnetic clasp to create this bracelet.
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.
$35 instructor fee/$35 materials fee
New Class! Madras Bracelet–This class is FULL–Call to get on waitlist
Date and Time: 08/03/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Create your bracelet base with peyote stitch. Then embellish with GemDuos and round Toho seed beads. This lovely bracelet is a great beginner to intermediate project.
This class is full. Call 319-338-1566 to get on the waitlist. When two or more people sign up on the waitlist, we will schedule a new session.
New Class! French Leaves & Flowers
$72.00Date and Time: 08/04/2024 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.
New Class! Solid Boro Pendant
$120.00Date and Time: 08/11/2024 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity:
Instructor: Tyson Whitehill
Prerequisites: Any boro glass experience.
Using solid clear boro glass, add color to create a design. Then learn or practice making a bail from which to hang your pendant.
Picture coming soon!
New Class! Yin Yang Wire Earrings
$72.00Date and Time: 08/12/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Zanetta Hoehle
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn to manipulate thin wire around a larger wire to create a yin yang design. Turn your piece into an earring. Make a second one to solidify your skills and you are ready to wear your new pair of earrings.
Chevron Beaded Bracelet through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 08/13/2024 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use Toho seed beads to learn ladder stitch and chevron stitch to make a quick and simple bracelet that has high impact. You will use one color of larger beads for the base and then embellish it with slightly smaller beads in three colors. The “V” shape is stunning. No experience needed.
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.
$35 instructor fee through Kirkwood/$35 materials fee at class time.
Beaded Bugs & Downtown Scavenger Hunt through GoldCap Education
Date and Time: 08/15/2024 from 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In this collaborative class with GoldCap Education, learn methods of 3-D glass bead design to create a scary, yet fun spider! Kids will use Czech pressed glass beads and wire make their own sculpture. Then design your own bug—real or imagined. Become an expert beadologist creating one-of-a-kind art pieces! No experience needed. The other half of the day is a scavenger hunt downtown to hone your problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills.
Registration is $105 and is through GoldCap Education.
RAW Rubber Gasket Necklace
$78.00Date and Time: 08/17/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Any seed bead weaving experience.
Use flat right angle weave (RAW), then zip it up around a rubber gasket, sew up the gasket to create an figure eight, and embellish it to create this contemporary necklace with glass beads and rubber.Add a RAW bead on each side of the necklace and you are ready to wear.
Mini Pine Basket
$138.00Date and Time: 08/18/2024 from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Marilyn Moore
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
This little jewel of a basket incorporates a coiled beginning and chain and wheat stitches, all held together with artificial sinew. Explore shaping with the coiled technique to produce the perfect basket to hold your favorite earrings or rings. To finish the basket, make a lid that fits perfectly and features a bead of your choice on top.
Make Glass Beads: Intro to Lampworking through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 08/23/2024 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
This class will teach you the art of lampworking, a technique of using a torch and melting glass rods to create various shapes. Safety and appropriate equipment handling are emphasized. Your beads will need to stay in a kiln overnight to be annealed.
NOTE: Participants must be at least 15 years old.
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.
$50 instructor fee/$80 materials fee.
New Class! Huichol Style Flower Earrings
$68.00Date and Time: 08/24/2024 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Capacity: 7
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use a traditional netting stitch and an ombre cast of colors to make these flower earrings. Once you learn the basic pattern, experiment with endless variations for this project including adding fringe or a larger bead in the center.
New Class! Flowering Cactus in Wire
$68.00Date and Time: 08/24/2024 from 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
The cactus is shaped with a thicker wire Use your body and common household items to shape your cactus. Then embellish it with seed beads and smaller wire. Add a few flowers and you have your flowering cactus.
Soldering Sampler
$88.00Date and Time: 08/25/2024 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
This workshop involves the fundamentals of soldering. Learn and hone a variety of soldering skills—connecting an open jump ring, adding a ring to another piece, and more. Practice both sweat and spot soldering. Leave with a variety of samples and a new set of skills.
This class serves as a pre-requisite for many metal working classes.
Friday Night Out: Ball Chain & Leather Bracelet
$60.00Date and Time: 08/30/2024 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Alyssa Jakowchuk
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use waxed linen to wrap ball chain around a piece of leather. It sounds so easy and looks so good. Add a button clasp on one end and a loop on the other, and you are ready, set, go! Vegan option available.
New Class! Plumes in Glass–only one seat left!
$120.00
07/27/2024 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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07/28/2024 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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New Class! Plumes in Glass–only one seat left!
$120.00Date and Time: 07/27/2024 from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Capacity: 5
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: Basic lampworking skills.
This is an intermediate lampworking class. Participants will be encasing with clear, creating a pattern with layers of dots, and raking this pattern into a plume. Varied shapes of beads will be explored using this same pattern.