April 10 & 11 (Wednesday & Thursday) 8-9pm EST on Zoom  $125

We’ll make several different kinds of buttons over two one-hour sessions – a polka-dotted button using a two-hole mandrel, another zig-zaggy one on a regular mandrel, a round, off-mandrel button with a steel shank and work up to an off-mandrel button with a sturdy glass shank. You can accomplish all of these techniques with either Bullseye (90) or 104 COE glass. Intermediate to advanced techniques.

I use glass buttons on everything! For hand-knit sweaters and bags and hats and even cards and other paper crafts. But I mostly love to use them as clasps for my jewelry.

July 23, 30, August 6, 13, 20  (Every Tuesday for 5 weeks) 8-9pm EST on Zoom  $325

Learn to make pendants off-mandrel. We will start slow, making round pendants with simple decorations. Each week, we’ll work on a certain shape and new decorative motif – sculptural flower pendants, stars and starfish, eye pendants with twisted cane and hearts with ribbon cane. You can accomplish all of these techniques with either Bullseye (90) or 104 COE glass. Intermediate to advanced techniques.

September 9 (Monday) 8pm EST on Zoom  $95

Make a giant beaded bead of your own handmade beads! A different format for this one – I’ll record the beadmaking videos and put them in our classroom several weeks before. Watch them and make the beads on your schedule. We’ll meet on the evening of the 9th and make our beaded beads together. 

October 8 & 15 (Tuesdays) 8-9pm EST and then October 20 (Sunday) 1-5pm EST on Zoom  $195

Over the two evening sessions, learn to make the little beads I use in my knotted bracelets – flowers, rounds, striped paddles, noodles, birds and buttons. I’ll also explain how to choose the other ingredients that will go in your bracelet. In the Sunday session, we’ll have all our beads made and other stuff collected and we’ll make our bracelets together! I love that everyone will make their own beads and the bracelets will look different from one another.