Calendar
- July 10 - Monthly Meeting with guest speaker Doris Coghill (Iroquois Beadwork)
- August 5 - 2017 Fall Workshop Kumihimo with Maggie Thompson at the Textile Center
- August 7 - Monthly Meeting with Maggie Thompson (How to embellish Kumihimo)
- September 7-10 - Fall 2017 Bead Retreat
- September 11 - Monthly Meeting - Road trip to Dakota Stones
- October 2 - Monthly Meeting - Make & Take with Shona Brooks
- November 6 - Monthly Meeting with guest speaker Mary Ila Duntemann (Handmade Glass Beads)
- December 4 - Monthly Meeting - Holiday Party
NOTE: Scroll down below for specific meeting information and other bead related events.
MEETING LOCATION FOR 2017
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The Wilder Foundation has a three story covered parking ramp and a covered walkway into the building.
Meetings start at 6:30. There is open beading starting at 5:00 in the Wilder Foundation cafeteria on the 1st floor. |
To get us out of the construction & Parking mess we will continue to meet at the Wilder Foundation for 2016. We plan to be at the Textile Center in April for our annual Demo & Do!
Wilder Foundation 451 Lexington Pkwy North St Paul MN 55104 (just south of university on Lexington) Just get off 94 at the Lexington exit and go North. Turn into the driveway before White Castle. Click here for Directions |
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UMBS Monthly Meeting
and Program July 10, Monday, at 6:30 pm Iroquois Beadwork with Doris Coghill Vintage Native American beadwork is hard to find. The exception to that is the three dimensional beadwork done in the Niagara Falls area by the various Iroquois tribes to sell to the tourists and the colorful Mohawk work done also to sell to the tourists attending the various Wild West shows. Doris has collected these pieces for many years and has about 40 pieces in her collection. The two newest ones are very rare and exceptional examples of this two of beadwork. Doris left the corporate world in 2000 to pursue beads full time. Since then she has spent her time being a sales rep for a bead company, designing kits and teaching them both locally and nationally, writing for the leading bead magazines, leading bead related tours to the Czech Republic, The Tucson Bead Show and Providence, RI, Acting as show promoter for the Twin Cities Bead Bazaar and maintaining her web site and growing her online business at www.beadsbydee.com . She has also contributed projects to 6+ books by various publishers and has had many articles/projects published the leading bead magazines. |
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Demo and Do 2017
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Textile Center
We have lots of new classes to choose from! Sign-ups for classes will begin at 6 pm before the February 6th UMBS meeting. Samples and photos will be available for view. Cost is $5 per session for members, $10 per session for non-members. Some classes require 2 sessions, so watch closely when you register. We will only take first come/first serve paid registrations.
Click here for more detailed information.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Textile Center
We have lots of new classes to choose from! Sign-ups for classes will begin at 6 pm before the February 6th UMBS meeting. Samples and photos will be available for view. Cost is $5 per session for members, $10 per session for non-members. Some classes require 2 sessions, so watch closely when you register. We will only take first come/first serve paid registrations.
Click here for more detailed information.
June 4th - 11th
Bead & Button Show
Milwaukee, WI
600 classes from 6/4 - 6/11
45+ Vendors 6/8 - 6/11
Click here for more information.
Bead & Button Show
Milwaukee, WI
600 classes from 6/4 - 6/11
45+ Vendors 6/8 - 6/11
Click here for more information.
Fall 2017 Bead Retreat
September 7th - 10th
More information to come closer to retreat dates!
Click here to see photos from last year's event.
September 7th - 10th
More information to come closer to retreat dates!
Click here to see photos from last year's event.
Click here for local bead stores
many with ongoing classes
many with ongoing classes
