Beaded Snowflakes - beginners

Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Tuition: $30  Materials: $5

Celebrate Winter, come and make a beautiful beaded snowflake! 

You will learn a basic technique using seed beads, thread and a beading needle while following a pattern. Basic snowflake making supplies will be provided. You are encouraged to bring a little matt, cloth shallow containers /lids or beading trays to keep your beads corralled. A first-time snowflake takes a couple hours. Once you have the basics down you can create your own unique patterns or embellish on a tried-and-true pattern.

Turn your snowflakes into ornaments, window decor, or even earrings!

*An Advanced Beaded Snowflake class is available on Sunday for those that have taken this beginning class in previous years or for those wishing to have a snowflake beading weekend. 

About the Instructor: Daina Antanaitis is a self-taught beading artist who was drawn to beads in her early twenties. She was captivated by the diverse, rich, cultural, global manifestations of beads past and present. Daina started as most do, by stringing beads. Netting and looming on a little hand made loom soon followed. She loved the texture, colors and effects that seed beads produced.

Daina moved to the Ely area with her son to work in the outdoors and never left. Over the next thirty-five years, between working, raising her son, meeting her husband and homesteading, she beaded as able. Daina began beading on leather about twenty years ago, creating “bead paintings”. She also made pouches, shields and bags often as commemorative items for significant life events.

Daina continues to create with beads: netting, stitching, looming and embroidering. Size 11 seed based remain her favorites. She continues to be inspired by: simple and purposeful living, the natural world, Native American beaded art and good books/stories that fuel her vivid imagination.