Color Play Bracelets
Advanced Beginners are welcome.

Embroiderer's Guild of America
The Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc.
335 West Broadway, Suite 100,
Louisville, KY 40202-2105
1-502-589-6956
1-800-554-0197
(weekdays, 8:30am-5:00pm CST)

The course covers four types of peyote stitch and methods of designing in the stitch. You work exercises in flat and tubular, even and uneven-count stitch, starting with larger 8 o seed beads and completing the remaining exercises in cylinder beads.
• The course then covers basic color theory, and you work color exercises using cylinder beads in uneven-count flat and tubular peyote stitch. These exercises with color schemes allow you to plan your two bracelets.
• After working the exercises, you choose your own colors for your two bracelets. You work the flat bracelet first and learn to create the beaded toggle to finish it. You then work the tubular bracelet and learn to decrease to finish the bracelet’s ends and the beaded end cap.

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Squared Necklace
Beginners are welcome

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Play with color in this necklace as you embroider five, two-sided focal beads to be centerpieces in a strung necklace. You use flat beads or cabochons to create these embroidered beads, and together with other gemstone beads and artist-made lampwork beads, they can create a powerful impact.

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Triangle Blossom Necklace
Intermediate to advanced students only

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Create smooth gradations of color in both the cord and tassels of this elegant lariat necklace. You bead the cord in herringbone stitch and complete the flower’s stem using right-angle-weave.

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Bargello I Necklace
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Play with color to create your own Bargello effect.

Learn to shape brick stitch while creating this Bargello necklace, inspired by a piece of Bargello needlepoint. You decrease on the edge to create the pattern.

You receive the Bargello pattern and learn to read it.

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Cosmos I Necklace
Some beading experience required

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Playing with color is this necklace's essence. Using brick stitch, you create its links by beading around larger beads and by creating flat, shaped pieces.

You learn a number of variations of the bead-around-a-bead technique, including different edging stitches. You also learn to increase and decrease in brick stitch.

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Miriam's Shimmer Necklace
Some beading experience required.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

With its 7 colors of seed beads, this right-angle-weave necklace is about playing with color.

For the neckpiece, you ease into beading right-angle-weave using a three-count stitch, embellishing as you go. Then you switch to a two-count stitch for the dangles, learning the method for turning and creating a second row.

In addition, you embellish the dangles, learn to put the dangles and the neckpiece together, and attach the garlands.

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Color Passages Necklace
Advanced intermediate to advanced beaders only
Must be very comfortable using peyote stitch.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Learn to bead smooth gradations of color in both brick and peyote stitch.

First I discuss the three characteristics of color—hue, value, and gradation—and explain the way in which they affect your beadwork. Then you spend some time playing with color to develop your own color passage.

With your color passage in hand, you create:

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Bead, Knot to Bead Necklace
Beginners are welcome

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Create a necklace using decorative knotting techniques.
In the class, you learn:

You create the knots while holding the work in your hands, using your fingers to create the necessary tension rather than working on a knotting board.

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Triangle Fugue Necklace
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

This fast-paced class covers two stitches.You create a sparkling rhythm as you alternate larger beads and brick-stitch dangles with herringbone tubes.

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Charm Bracelet
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Play with color as you add the charms to this bracelet. You embellish a right-angle-weave base made of large fire-polished crystals and add two types of fringe—kinky and straight—for the charms that dangle from it.

Use pearls, semi-precious gemstones, pressed-glass beads, fire-polished crystals—any bead you want—for the charms.

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Color Passages Bracelet
Peyote-stitch a bracelet with decorative clasp.
Advanced beaders only.
Must be comfortable with peyote stitch.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Learn to create smooth gradations of color in this peyote-stitch bracelet’s cord. Finish with a flourish by creating a beaded end cap and an embellished toggle clasp.

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Windowpanes Bracelet
Learn two-drop peyote and color gradations.
Suitable for all levels of beaders.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Create a rainbow while learning 2-drop peyote-stitch. Play with pattern and color gradation, all the while creating this vibrant bracelet. Change the border’s color, and voilá, you have a different bracelet.

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Stained Glass Bracelet
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Create your own stained glass using fire-polished crystals and glass pearls.

To create this jeweled, right-angle-weave bracelet, you will make and join links that glow with color.

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Rhythm and Glitter Bracelet
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time)

Fast and easy because of its larger beads, this herringbone-stitch bracelet uses five colors of fire-polished crystals and the contrasting texture of triangle beads to create a glittering rhythm.

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Ikat Bracelet
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time)

In this flat, even-count, peyote-stitch bracelet, play with color and value to create a pattern reminiscent of the ikat patterns found in dyed textiles.

The instructor teaches some color basics and then discusses the use of color in the bracelet.

We spend the first hour of this class choosing colors.

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Right-Angle Weave Earrings
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Learn the right-angle-weave stitch while creating a pair of elegant earrings. The earrings are simple and fast because you use larger beads in creating the base.

You create the first two rows, the base, in flat right-angle weave and then join the two rows to form the three-dimensional triangle.

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Brick-Stitch Earrings
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Learn brick stitch while creating a pair of elegant earrings. The earrings are simple and fast because you use larger beads in creating the earring’s central section.

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Herringbone-Stitch Earrings
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Learn the herringbone stitch (Ndbele) while creating a pair of elegant earrings. The earrings are simple and fast because you use larger triangle beads to create the tube.

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Peyote-Stitch Earrings
Beginners are welcome.

(No classes scheduled at this time.)

Learn peyote stitch while creating a pair of elegant earrings. For each earring, you bead the central section in flat, even-count peyote stitch. Then you join the two edges to create the tubular form.

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