For the third year in a row, I am making glass ornaments. Last year and this year, the Reading-Berks Guild of Craftsmen was asked to decorate the PA governor's tree. Each time, I tried to come up with something new, and this year had me stumped. I finally made some spirals on large mandrels, and I liked them, but couldn't come up with any way to hang them so they hung straight. After thinking about it, I made more spirals and at the end, pulled the glass into the center. When I tied ribbon on that end, they hung straight! They seem much more delicate that they really are.
While thinking about the glass spirals, I wondered if I could make narrower ones and use a heavy gauge wire coiled into a spiral to hold them. Aha, that worked too, so now I have extra ornaments!
These will not be for sale. Cleaning the bead release was a real pain! I do love a good challenge.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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