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Want to learn how to bead? Want to learn new beading techniques? We can help! More than just Beads offers classes on how to make your very own custom bead jewelry. Along with learning how to make beautiful necklaces and earrings, we also teach students how to make other types of jewelry as well. Below are some of the main classes offered by More than just Beads.

Bangle Bracelet

Noodles, beads, and a clasp on a foot of wire! That's all it takes to make a bling of a bracelet in the Bangle class.

Length: Approx. 2 hours
Cost: $25.00 per student
Supplies: Wire, noodles, focal beads, 4-5mm rounds (or equivalent), clasp
Basic Wiring

A technique only class. Students learn to manipulate wire to make their own headpins and hoop earrings, fashion spirals, turn closed loops and wrapped loops, and link chains.

Length: Approx. 2 hours
Cost: $25.00 per student
No student supplies needed.
Beginning Jewlery

If you've never beaded before, this is the class for you! Beginning jewelry will teach you the basics of bead stringing on flexible wire, the use of crimps, wire turning, and attaching clasps. The student will complete a necklace and earrings to take with them.

Length: Approx. 2 hours
Cost: $25.00
Supplies: Beads
Beginning Peyote

An introduction to the Peyote stitch. This basic staple of a stitch will familiarize you with using needle and threads to weave seed beads into odd-count and even-count peyote.

Length: Approx 2 hours
Cost: $25.00
Supplies: Included.
Brick Stitch and Multi Strand Bracelet:

The brick stitched triangle framing each end of this funky bracelet is filled in with strands of bead soup.

Length:Approx. 3 hours
Cost: $25.00
Supplies: Needle (size 12 or 13), thread (PowerPro or Fireline), 8/0 seeds, Shank Button, variety of seeds in sizes 11/0, 8/0, 6/0, 4/0, and small accent beads (no larger than 8mm)
Cabernet Bracelet

Weave your magic with a needle and thread to create a beautiful 3/4" cuff bracelet with picot trim.

Length: 2 hrs plus Homework
Cost: $20.00
Supplies: 4mm beads (Swarovski bicones, Swarovski Pearls, or Fire-polished Czech), 8/0 hexagons, 11/0 seeds in 1, 2, or 3 colors, clasp, size 12 needle, Nymo D.
Cubed Multi-Loop Bracelet

A square stitched, hand sewn base of cubes hides beneath a blanket of beaded loops.


Length: Approx. 3 hours
Cost: $35.00
Supplies: 4/0 cubes, bead soup, clasp, thread, needle
Finger Woven Treasure Bracelet

Check your stash! Beads, charms, and trinkets to treasure using a finger woven technique.

Length: 4 hrs (2 classes at 2 hrs each)
Cost: $40.00
Supplies: 13 yds Conso, Shankless button or bead, size 11/0, 8/0, and 6/0 seeds, an assortment of accent beads, charms, or small trinkets, project or cork board, quilters pins, fray check.
Free-Form Peyote

A no-pattern project that uses the basic peyote techniques to fashion a bracelet from accent beads and seed beads of varying shapes and sizes. An ideal solution as to what to do with all those leftovers!

Length: 3 hours
Cost: $30.00
Center focal bead (at least 8mm), seed beads in a variety of sizes, any beads that would accent your bracelet, thread ( Nymo D or PowerPro), size 10 needle
Fringe Techniques

In this technique only class you will learn to use needles, bead string, and a variety of seed beads to create ten beautiful fringe designs that can be added to anything.

Length: Approx. 3 hours
Cost: $20.00 per student
Supplies: seed beads, focal or drop beads, thread and needle
Honeycomb Spiral

A technique that is surprisingly easy to learn for such a sophisticated design!

Length: Approx. 3 hours
Cost: $20.00 per student
Supplies:sizes 6/o 8/o 11/o 15/o seed beads, power pro, size12 needle
Kylie's Crystals

A simply elegant bracelet that is fun to make and is certain to make you shine

Length: Approx. 2 hours
Cost: $20.00 per student
Supplies:11/o seed beads, appx. 34 4mm bicones, 9mm bugles, clasp
Pearl Knotting

In this class you will learn to use tweezers, bead string, and bouillion (French wire) to knot a beautiful pearl necklace. This class is perfect for creating lovely new pieces of jewelry or re-stringing your priceless keepsakes. No beading experience is necessary to enroll in this class.

Length: Approx. 2 hours
Cost: $25.00 per student
Supplies: clasp, power pro, size 12 needle, 8/o or 11/o seed beads
Russian Spiral

A lovely alternative to tubular peyote, the Russian Spiral is an easy to create hollow tube. Perfect for Bracelets or chokers

Length: Approx. 2 hours
Cost: $25.00 per student
Supplies: pearls, string, clasp
Square Hole/Round Peg Bracelet

The only thing "square" about this hip bracelet is the seed bead framework sewn to surround your choice of bling. Variations to this bracelet are only limited by your imagination!

Length: Approx. 3 hours
Costs: $30.00
Supplies: size 11/0 seed beads, 72-84 4mm pearls, bicones, or fire-polished czech beads, shank button for closure
Square Wire Bracelet

A wire working class in which the student learns to create a wire framework for beads utilizing square, round, and ½ round wire to form bracelets.

Length: Approx. 4 hours
Costs: $60.00
Supplies: Wire and focal beads
Sticks N Stones

A beaded cuff with a contemporary look, this style brings simplicity to its finest.

Length: Approx. 2 hours
Cost: $25.00 per student
Supplies: 11/o seed beads, 9mm twisted bugles, needle, thread
Wiring a Cabachon

With this wire working class, learn to manipulate square and ½ round wire to enclose a Cabochon (a flat stone or object) in a wire frame with bail for use as a pendant. No previous wire experience is necessary.

Length: Approx. 3 hours
Cost: $40.00
Supplies: Wire, cabochon, optional small accent beads
Wire Ring Class

An intermediate wire class introducing the use of Ring Mandrels. Students will manipulate square and half-round wire to incorporate a stone and/or beads into a ring, sized to fit. Wire experience required.

Length: Approx. 3 hours
Cost: $40.00
Supplies: Wire, focal bead or stone


General Class Information

  • Classes have a maximum occupancy of 6 people
  • Classes are approximately 2-4 hours in length, depending on which class and the skill level and degree of difficulty of the project
  • Each class requires a minimum of 2 people signed up and paid in order for the class to be held. In the event a class is cancelled, the student will be given the choice of a refund, store credit, or rescheduling the class. We do require that you pay in advance for the class, thereby holding your spot; if you do need to cancel – a 48-hour notice is required for a refund or transfer to another class. If notice is not given, your fee may be forfeited.
  • Tools will be provided for classes and are for sale in the store if you wish to purchase them
  • All supplies are available at More than just Beads.
  • Students receive a 10% discount on supplies required for class as well as any additonal purchases made the day of the class.
  • More classes will be added as our teaching staff grows…
  • Students who participate in a class at More Than Just Beads are asked not to teach the same class within two-hundred and fifty (250) miles from ANY More Than Just Bead Store.


  • Bead classes are taught by the staff of More than just Beads, as well as visiting instructors from other areas of the Peninsula. If you have an interest in an area of beading not covered by our current list of classes, stop by the store and see Sande or Kathy, owners of More than just Beads and some of the area’s most talented and well known instructors.