Crystal Bead Bazaar
4521 Butler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
412-687-1513
Store Hours
Monday-Saturday 10-6
Thursday 10-9
Sunday 12-5
Crystal Bead Bazaar is located in the historic Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh, and is a proud member of the 16:62 Design Zone.
Crystal Bead Bazaar's
2010 Class Schedule
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Sunday, February 21, 12:00-5:00 p.m.
$55, plus $40 materials
Beaders and other jewelry makers, here’s your chance to make a shining, pure silver PMC toggle clasp that also doubles as a beautiful pendant, meant to be worn as the focal point of your handmade creation.
Skill level: Beginner/Intermediate
Materials: included in $40 materials fee (payable to instructor)
Instructor: Donna Penoyer
Bead Crochet
Sunday, February 28th, 12-5
$55 plus materials
In this popular class, students will learn how to do slip stitch crochet in the round with seed beads to create a supple beaded rope. Learning the basic stitch using a pre-strung 'starter' will enable students to first grasp the fundamentals of the stitch. After everyone is comfortable in crocheting with beads, students will then string their own chosen colors and learn how to begin the crochet, which can be confusing. If you have tried to learn bead crochet and failed, try our method!!
Skill level: all
Materials: 5 colors size 8 seed beads, S-lon bead string, clasp and cones (all available at CBB)
Instructor: Pamela Cashdollar
Handmade Wire Findings
Rescheduled
Tuesday, March 23rd, 6:30-9:30
$35 plus materials
This class is fun!! Students will learn about the basic properties of wire while creating their own findings. Items to be made include headpins, earwires, hook-and-eye clasps and more!
Skill level: all
Materials: various gauges sterling or copper wire. Bring your pliers (cutters, round nose, flat nose) to class.
Instructor: Pamela Cashdollar
Peyote Stitch Workshop
Saturday, March 13th, 11-5
$65 plus materials
In this all day workshop, students will be introduced to all facets of peyote stitch, probably the most popular of all the off loom beading techniques. Once students master flat even count peyote, the class will move on to tubular, spiral, and peyote in the round. Also addressed will be the more difficult odd count peyote, and graph reading.
Please note that this is a workshop teaching techniques. Students will not create a finished piece of jewelry, although the samples made can be worked on later and made into bracelets or necklaces.
Skill level: all
Materials: various sizes and colors of seed beads. Bring a task light if desired.
Instructor: Pamela Cashdollar
RAW Renaissance Bracelet
Saturday, March 20th, 11-3
$45 plus materials
In this class, students will learn basic right angle weave while making a beautiful Renaissance-inspired bracelet using Czech firepolish beads, Swarovski crystals and seed beads.
Skill level: all
Materials: 50 6mm firepolish, 30 4mm Swarovski bicones, 2 colors 11/0 seedbeads, clasp (all available at Crystal Bead Bazaar.)
Instructor: Pamela Cashdollar
PMC Earrings with Tube-set CZs
Sunday, March 21, 12:00-5:00 p.m.
$55, plus $40 materials
Learn how easy it is to make tubes from pure silver PMC, then set colorful, dazzling cubic zirconia in the ends, to be fired right in place in the metal clay. Leave them as-is for tiny charms, or incorporate them as the focal points of slightly larger fine silver earrings. Great beginner project!
Skill level: all, great class for beginners
Materials: included in $40 fee (payable to instructor)
Instructor: Donna Penoyer
Making Memories Jewelry Workshop
Saturday, March 27th, 11-5
$75 includes materials
In this new workshop, students will use a variety of media to create one-of-a-kind, indie-style jewelry components. Among the techniques covered will be sealing photos in jewelry blanks with resin, hammering words in metal blanks with letter stamps, soldering 'frames' for pictures, ITS transfer, and more!
Skill level: all
Materials: small photos or pictures to glue into blanks.
Instructor: Pamela Cashdollar
Bead Embroidered Soft Cuff Bracelet
Sunday, April 18th, 12-5
$55 plus materials
In this popular class, students will learn how to capture a cabochon with peyote stitch, then embellish it by employing a back stitching technique to 'paint with beads'. The bracelet will then be backed with ultra suede, finished with a modified brick stitch, and be ready for a clasp.
Skill level: all, basic knowledge of peyote helpful
Materials: Cabochon, variety of sizes, colors and finishes of seed beads to coordinate. (available at CBB)
Instructor: Pamela Cashdollar
Handwrought Silver Cuff with Beads
Monday, April 26th, 6:30-8:30 and Tuesday, April 27th, 6:30-8:30
$45 plus materials
In this fun class, students will use a heavy gauge wire to fashion a cuff bracelet while learning the properties of wire. This free form bracelet will then be embellished with beads using a thinner gauge wire.
Skill level: all
Materials: 14 and 24 gauges sterling wire, beads for embellishment (available at CBB) Please bring your wire working tools to class.
Instructor: Pamela Cashdollar
PMC Paste Leaf Pendant
Saturday, May 8, 12:00-5:00 p.m.
$55, plus $40 materials
PMC is a wonderful way of reproducing natural forms in fine silver, simply by coating leaves, twigs,
and other objects with PMC paste, then burning off the organic material in the kln and leaving just the
fine silver behind. In this workshop, learn how to build up layers of PMC to turn a real leaf into a fine
silver pendant, with all the lovely detail of the original.
Skill level: Beginner
Materials: Included in $40 materials fee (payable to instructor)
Instructor: Donna Penoyer