Beading I - Libby Caldwell
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BEADING I
INSTRUCTOR: LIBBY CALDWELL
Come join our class as we learn the basics of sting beading and knotting, you will have fun incorporating different types, styles, and sizes of beads into your jewelry designs. Our class specializes in multiple styles of necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. You will also learn to knot classic pearl necklaces. If you have a special focal piece you would like to add to your beaded project, please bring it to class. A large selection of pearls, natural stones, crystals, spacers along with pewter findings, stringing supplies, sterling, 14KGF, copper, and other metals, tools and supplies will be available for purchase. Each day we will have a special project to complete, then you will be able to use your creative abilities to design your own family heirloom.
Class Fee: $50
Est. Materials Fee: $150-$300
Prerequisites: None
Libby Caldwell
Libby began her love of jewelry design after attending a wholesale jewelry show in Franklin, NC with friends. This outing 16 years ago began a love and fascination for gems and minerals. Libby enrolled and attended her first class with William Holland in 2006 and has continued to expand her knowledge base through the years with classes in cabochon cutting, seed beading, beginning and advanced wire craft, stained glass, pottery, glass fusion. She also is proficient in basket weaving which she taught for many years at Gaston College. Teaching the elderly to string pearls and develop their own special designs has given Libby much pleasure over the years at a retirement community in Spartanburg, SC. While traveling to Jackson Hole Wyoming she found a love for Southwestern Jewelry which Libby then incorporated into her beading. When Libby is not designing special pieces, you will find her working for UNC—The Falls Pediatrics as Pediatric Nurse, in Granite Falls, NC.