Another problem that I have experienced when making dichroic fused glass jewelry is breakage in the kiln during firing. I have found that firing large thick items in the microwave kiln seems to end in breaking more often then not. I was making this piece for my husband as an accent for his car. […]
Making dichroic fused glass jewelry is a lot of fun but sometimes things don’t quite come out the way I intended! Glass melts at approximately 1460 degrees. As you can see from my first photo the glass on the right side melted in separate pieces as planned. The glass on the left should have been […]
What a great time! I helped with the Ava Art Guild booth at Hootin an Hollarin this past week. Members of the Guild can sell their creations and I had my dichroic jewelry on display. I didn’t sell much dichroic jewelry but there were lots of pumpkins, snowmen and owls flying out of the […]
Someone has neglected their dichroic fused glass jewelry blog for about 7 months! I guess that would be me so it is high time I make amends and get back to it! After our cold snowy winter in Missouri finally ended I did get my temporary fused glass jewelry studio set up in the back […]
We made our big move to Gainesville, Missouri on December 3. It has been a lot of work getting things in order especially with the wild winter we have had. I have been trying to get my studio set up but with no heat in the back room it has been hit and miss. Warmer […]
The Yuletide Art&Craft festival in Taos, New Mexico is my first venture into selling my dichroic fused glass jewelry at craft shows. My husband, Dave, built displays for me and I made cloth backings for them. We worked on ways to set up the tables and a way to hang my sign. The show […]
It has been a crazy month and I have neglected to add to the next step in my jewelry process. So here is the step that causes a lot of fussing and cussing at my house! Gluing findings to glass! I start by matching the finding with the glass pieces. In the picture I am […]
My last blog post was about firing. Once the kiln cools and I open it up the glass is still hot. I slide the pieces off onto a towel to cool enough to handle. I take the kiln bottom outside and blow off the residual kiln paper. I will usually have a large number of […]
I prepare a lot of glass to fire so I plan on several hours of firing time. Each kiln has a firing platform of @2&1/2inches. I cut my kiln paper in rectangles as it wastes less paper. This paper keeps the glass from melting and sticking to the kiln surface. The result would be a […]
Making dichroic fused glass jewelry is a process with a lot of steps. I start by cutting background glass (usually black) into the shape I want – square, rectangle,etc. Then I select colors of dichroic glass to create the pattern on top of the background. I cut the colored glass into shapes and glue them […]