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Stephanie Sersich
Button Brooch
Spiny Knotted Bracelet


Saturday May 3rd and Sunday May 4th

Class  Fee: $85.00 per class + materials
Button Brooch
Saturday May 3rd - 10:00am-2:00pm


Stephanie layers materials and fastens items with fibers to create many of her pieces.  In this 4-hour class, she’ll show you her latest design - a brooch made from beads, waxed linen and a button.  The project will be featured in her book that’s due out in the spring of 2008, but this is your chance to learn the intricacies of the technique from Stephanie herself!  The colors and motifs will be of the students’ choosing and each student’s brooch will look different from the others’.  The class will focus on using waxed linen, a marvelous fiber, to make jewelry from beads and buttons.  Participants will use waxed linen and threads to bind together their beads and treasures into a brooch first, and if time allows, start a ring or pendant made in a similar manner.

Spiny Knotted Bracelet
Saturday May 3rd - 3:00pm-7:00pm

In the workshop, we’ll use floss and waxed linen to bind beads and other treasures into a bracelet. You’ll also learn how to apply the technique to make a necklace. The materials and methods provide an opportunity for self-expression—there is no pattern to follow, the beads can vary in size, color and shape. Each student in the class creates a bracelet different from the others’. The unusual materials and larger bead sizes (a nice change from the intricate “seed bead” work) seem to level the playing field for beginners and long-time beaders. Most students will complete the bracelet in class.
Stephanie's New Book
"Designing Jewelry with Glass Beads"

Book Signing
Saturday - 2:00pm-3:00pm
Click here to see work from Stephanie's 2007 Workshops
Please contact the store to register for a workshop.
Class fees are due at time of registration.
401-253-1188