Jewelry & Metals
stone setting, enameling, beginner or advanced
The Littleton Studio School offers a variety of classes in metal and jewelry techniques for all ages and abilities. Classes are taught by skilled artisans, some of whom are juried members of the League of NH Craftsman.
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One Day Workshop
Wednesday, May 27th 10:00 to 2:00PM
Material Fee: $25 paid to instructor on day of workshop.
Ever wondered how jewelry is made? Come spend a fun and creative evening learning the basics of metalsmithing! In this hands-on beginner class, you’ll design and craft your own unique pair of earrings. No prior experience needed.
You'll explore essential jewelry-making techniques, including:
Designing and planning your project
Cutting metal shapes with a disc cutter
Adding eye-catching textures with hammers
Shaping your pieces to create beautiful dimension
Polishing your finished earrings for a professional shine
By the end of the class, you'll take home one or two pairs of earrings that you made yourself, perfect to wear or gift! Join us for a night of creativity, fun, and a little bit of sparkle.
Taught by Danielle Mock www.wildwonderjewelry.com
One Day Workshop
Sunday, May 31st 10:00 to 1:00PM
Material Fees: $15-$50 Paid to the instructor on day of the workshop
This workshop offers a quiet, supportive space to spend time with your grief while creating something meaningful with your hands. Participants will make a layered metal pendant that includes a loved one’s name and a short word or phrase that feels connected to them.
We will begin with a simple breathwork practice to help settle the body, followed by optional journaling to explore words, memories, or feelings you may want to carry into your piece. The focus is not on creating something perfect, but on allowing the process of making to support reflection, connection, and moments of steadiness.
Basic jewelry techniques will be introduced, including stamping, forming, and finishing. Students may choose to work in copper, brass, or silver.
This class is intentionally small and paced to allow space for both making and quiet reflection. Sharing is always optional.
Participants will leave with a finished pendant, along with simple tools such as breathwork and journaling that can be returned to outside of class.
No prior jewelry experience is required.
Facilitated by Danielle Mock, certified grief coach
https://daniellemock.com
4-Week Session
Wednesdays, June 3rd to June 24th 1:00 to 5:00PM
Estimated Materials Fee: TBD
This introductory course is designed for beginners and returning students who want to build a foundation in metalsmithing while developing confidence, skills, and personal style.
Over four weeks, students will learn essential jewelry-making techniques through a series of guided projects that build upon one another. We’ll focus on understanding tools, working safely at the bench, and developing good habits that support growth in jewelry making.
Techniques covered include:
Sawing and piercing
Soldering fundamentals
Forming and shaping metal
Surface texture and design
Filing, sanding, and finishing techniques
Students will create several finished pieces, such as a ring, earrings, and a bracelet, with opportunities to personalize designs as skills develop. Emphasis is placed on process, skill-building and gaining confidence rather than perfection.
This class may be taken more than once as students refine techniques and explore their own creative voice.
Danielle is a metalsmith and educator with a background in teaching and a passion for helping students feel comfortable and capable in the jewelry studio. She enjoys creating jewelry that is meaningful, wearable and grounded in thoughtful craftsmanship. Danielle enjoys guiding students as they build skills, explore creativity, and gain confidence working with metal.
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One Day Workshop
Thursday, June 4th 4:00 to 8:00PM
Material Fee: $15 - $50 paid to instructor
Looking for a fun night out to express your creativity and make a beautiful set of minimalistic stacking rings? Join this beginner class where we’ll work with silver and 14k gold filled wire.
You’ll learn how to size for a ring, prepare a solder seam, solder, form your rings, cut out silver embellishments to solder onto your rings, and polish.
Beginner class
Fun good company in the jewelry studio
Create rings for yourself or to gift
Feel proud of your work, get into the flow of creativity
Unwind from the week with good company in the jewelry studio
Follow Danielle at: https://www.instagram.com/wildwonderjewelry
One Day Workshop
Sunday, June 7th 10:00 to 4:00PM
Material Fee: $TBD
Have you ever wanted to learn soldering or improve your soldering skills? Or are you not sure how to set up your own soldering torch and tank? This class will cover the basics of how to set up your own soldering torch and tank, safety issues and a place to solder. We will cover all the soldering basics from butt joints to stick soldering. We will cover various torches, gases and soldering supplies. We will work on soldering and help you gain confidence in your soldering skills. Great for those who have been taking jewelry classes but want to improve on soldering as well as those who want to understand soldering.
One Day Workshop - Ages 18+
Saturday, June 13th
10:00AM to 1:00PM
Material Fee: $20 paid to instructor
Come play mad scientist with copper and crystals, where we'll transform a cabochon (0.5–1.5 inches, handmade by Jessalynn) into your next favorite wearable talisman using only wire and a healthy dose of unapologetic creativity. This beginner-friendly jam session dives into basic wire wrapping, coiling, and weaving with a fun twist: we're blending smooth half-round wire textures with whisper-thin fine wire for that extra "whoa, the wire is doing a dance" energy.
Expect a 3 hour mindful crafting adventure that's all about letting the amplifying quartz steal the spotlight while the copper flows aesthetically around it—just pure, conductive magic for crystal enthusiasts, newbie jewelers, and anyone who wants to walk around wearing a little piece of their own wild imagination.
Materials fee is $20 in addition to the class cost. Want to really lock the skill into your muscle memory? For $37, you can go home with an extra cabochon and enough wire to wrap a second pendant on your own. Practice is where the magic sets—so this option lets you reinforce what you’ve learned while it’s still fresh and turn confidence into competence.
Show up ready to giggle, fidget, and leave with a piece that’s equal parts jewelry and energy portal. Spots are limited—sign up today on the Littleton Studio School website.
Follow Jessalynn on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jessalynn.courtney
One-Day Workshop
Sunday, June 28th 10:00 to 4:30PM
Materials Fee: $25 - $50 paid directly to the instructor
Join us for a fun, hands-on one-day workshop where you’ll create your very own spinner ring, a unique piece of jewelry that’s both stylish and soothing to wear. Spinner rings, also called fidget rings, feature outer bands that move freely around a base ring. They’re fashionable, playful, and perfect for anyone who enjoys a little movement in their jewelry.
In this class, you’ll explore your creativity while learning foundational metalsmithing skills. You’ll choose from brass, copper, or silver, or mix them together for a custom look. Each student will design and build a ring that reflects their own style.
Skills You’ll Learn:
Determining your ring size
Measuring and sawing your ring blanks
Prepping and soldering joints
Forming, texturing, and polishing
Assembling your unique spinner ring
No experience is necessary; this class is designed for beginners as well as those with some metalsmithing background. You’ll leave the studio not only with a new set of skills, but also with the pride of wearing a ring you made with your own hands.
Come spend the day in the studio, connect with others, and walk away with a piece of jewelry that is truly yours.
Follow Danielle on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildwonderjewelry
One-Day Class
Sunday, April 26th 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Materials Fee: $25 -$35 Paid directly to instructor
This one-day workshop offers participants the opportunity to hand-craft a personal set of prayer beads rooted in both tradition and contemporary practice. Drawing from global histories of rosaries, malas, and other bead-based devotional tools, the class explores how repetitive, tactile practices have long supported focus, reflection, and emotional regulation across cultures and belief systems.
Participants will be introduced to the historical and cultural use of prayer beads in interfaith contexts, including discussions of bead numbers, materials, and their symbolic and practical significance. Emphasis will be placed on understanding prayer beads as functional objects—tools that support grounding, meditation, and intentional pause in daily life—rather than as abstract or esoteric symbols.
Each participant will construct a complete set of prayer beads using 14mm rosewood beads along with complementary materials. Participants will attach to their beads, integrating basic jewelry-making techniques. Instruction will cover stringing methods, spacing, durability, and finishing, ensuring the completed piece is both beautiful and well-crafted.
The workshop is designed to be calm, focused, and welcoming to all backgrounds and belief systems. No prior jewelry or meditation experience is required. The environment supports careful making, conversation, and quiet attention, offering a practical way to step back from external pressures and engage in a meaningful, hands-on practice.
Learn more about Adhi at https://www.adhizen.com/about
If you want to learn to make jewelry using silver and other metals, this online course shows you how. You get more than five hours of online, on-demand video instruction broken up into 35 lessons. Study and practice on your own when it’s convenient for you. Progress at your own pace. You will have unlimited access to the lessons and you can watch them as often as you wish. When you enroll in this course, you will receive unlimited access to all 35 online video lessons. All you need is internet access and a TV, mobile device or computer capable of playing them.
As you progress through the lessons, you will learn about jewelry making tools, tool safety and how to create your own jewelry artist's studio. You will learn how to set up and use an acetylene and air torch for soldering. You'll learn jewelry making techniques such as forming, cutting, texturing, buffing and polishing. Follow along through four fun jewelry making projects. Make your own beautiful ring, pendant, earrings, and bracelet. Instructor Tom Woods will guide you every step of the way. In the lessons you will watch him make each piece while explaining what he does and why. He'll give you tips and tell you what to watch out for as he's working.
The online Jewelry Making Essentials course is a perfect complement to a live beginning jewelry making course. If you are waiting to take a live course, the online Jewelry Making Essentials lets you get started early and gets you ready to sail in the live course. If you have already taken a live course, then Jewelry Making Essentials is the perfect review to reinforce what you've learned and you can watch it over and over.
There is no start date for this course - just enroll and get your unlimited access.
Settings
This online, on-demand course is for jewelry makers interested in learning how to make their own prong basket settings which can be used in earrings, pendants, rings and bracelets. The instructor is Tom Woods, who has taught the equivalent 'live' prong classes at Littleton Studio many times. This online version is broken into eight short lessons that you can watch any time, as often as you like. Go at your own pace. Progress as quickly or as slowly as you need.
The course covers all the information you need in short convenient lessons. You will move step-by-step from start to finish as you make a pendant that has a stone you set yourself in your own handmade basket setting.
This online course covers the same material as a weekend workshop. It totals a little over an hour of direct instruction that is broken up into eight individual lessons. You will practice by following along and making your own basket setting, a beautiful stone pendant.
The lessons are presented on YouTube. If you have questions about certain parts, you can write comments with your questions and Tom will provide answers. Watch on your phone, tablet, or laptop while you make the pendant yourself.
This course is almost like buying a book about making prong settings, except it's better because you can watch as the instructor completes each step. You will like the price too. The course is substantially less expensive than a live weekend workshop. Instead, the course is priced more like an authoritative book about making prong settings. If you are waiting to take a live course, or if you took one but need a refresher, this will be the perfect complement.
When you enroll in this Prong Basket Setting Course, you will receive an email with attachments that include links to all eight lessons. You will also receive a list of all the tools and materials you'll need, plus a list of resources to turn to should you need to purchase tools or supplies. The lessons are hosted on YouTube. To access the course just click on a link with your internet connected device and you will go immediately to the lesson. They are yours, on demand, any time you want, forever.
Bezel clasps
If you want to learn to make bracelets using silver and other metals, this online course shows you how to make a clasp type bracelet. You will also see how to put a bezel setting on it to mount a stone cabochon. You get almost 1 1⁄2 hours of video instruction broken up into 11 short lessons that you can download on demand. Watch at your own pace. Study and practice on your own when it’s convenient for you. Slow down and rewatch parts you need to, or you can speed up and skip sections you feel you have a handle on. You will have unlimited access to the lessons and you can watch them as often as you wish. When you enroll in this course, you will receive unlimited access to all 11 online video lessons. All you need is internet access and a TV, mobile device or computer capable of playing them. Unlike live video courses, where you have to be present at a prearranged time, you can watch on demand courses on your schedule. When you enroll in the course, the lessons are yours to watch whenever, wherever, forever.
As you follow along in the lessons, you will watch instructor, Tom Woods, as he makes a bracelet from start to finish. He guides you every step of the way. He explains every detail. Some of the things you’ll learn about include: bezel making tips and tricks, how to measure and size a bracelet, a simple and effective clasp technique, texturing and forming metal, fusing and soldering techniques, buffing and polishing, and how to set a cabochon in a bezel. It is suggested you watch every lesson to get an overview of the project. Then after you work through the lessons, go back and begin making a bracelet of your own. Review the lessons a second time or even more as you progress. There is no start date for this course. Just enroll and get your unlimited access. You will receive an email containing links to all the online lessons, a list of tools and supplies you will need, and a list of suppliers. If you don’t have your own tools, you can utilize Littleton Studio School’s open studio hours to make the bracelet there.
Cab settings
If you have wanted to make your own settings for polished cabochon stones, Making Prong Settings for Cabochons is an online course that will be just the ticket. Instructor, Tom Woods, will take you step by step through the whole process. If you follow along in the project, you will end up with a beautiful pendant that has a prong setting custom-sized for your cabochon. This kind of setting can also be incorporated into other jewelry projects like earrings, rings and bracelets.
This course is an online, on-demand course. You will get over an hour of direct instruction broken up into eleven short convenient video lessons. You will see a prong setting being made while the teacher carefully and thoroughly explains every detail of the fabrication. You are encouraged to follow along while making your own setting. A huge benefit of online, on-demand courses is that you can watch them anytime you want, whenever, wherever and forever. Do you need to go slower, or repeat sections? You can do that. Do you want to skip over parts you are already comfortable with? You can do that too.
The lessons are hosted for you on YouTube, so you can access your course anywhere, any time as long as you have internet access and a device capable of viewing YouTube videos. The eleven lessons, which we estimate to cover the equivalent material found in a weekend workshop, is priced right too. It is far less expensive to take this on demand course than it is to take a 'live' course.
When you enroll in the course, you will receive an email that has all the course links and information about what tools and supplies you should have to complete the course.
As you progress through the lessons, you will undoubtedly think of questions you'd like to ask the teacher. You are encouraged to ask anything in the Comments sections that are presented with each lesson. Let us show you how to get started making your own beautiful prong settings at home by taking Making Prong Settings for Cabochons.
One Day Workshop
Friday, May 22nd 4:00-8:00pm
Material Fee: Casting Fees through Sadie will apply: $15 + cost of metal (calculated at the end of the workshop).
Ages 16+
Discover the ancient art of wax carving in this one day workshop. Wax carving is a subtractive process in which we begin with a large piece of wax and carve away until we reach our desired design. Students will begin with a wax tube and use sawing, filing and carving techniques to transform the wax tube into a custom ring. This workshop focuses on the process of carving and we will not be casting in this workshop.
Casting options will be given to the students including having it cast locally by Sadie, bigger companies to send your work to or the potential to cast the piece using the sand-casting method in an open studio or a separate workshop.
This workshop is great for beginners, those with metals experience and anyone who is looking for a more accessible way to create cool jewelry! You’ll leave the workshop with a completed wax ring ready to be cast into various metals such as bronze or sterling silver.