YAY! I finished the cardigan I started last weekend. It's for my sister Jan...have a guess what she's having lol. I just need to buy three light pink buttons to sew on. I am sooo glad I dont have to knit that bright pink wool anymore, but I am also delighted because I think it's kinda cute. I'm gonna make matching booties before baby is born.


This photo is just so you can see how small it actually is! It's a newborn sized cardigan.


I also made this pendant today. It was my first attempt with stripy glass and also my first attempt at adding bling (you have to drill a tiny hole while the glass is underwater before you can add the bling and cook it). I cooked it a little too long as I wanted straight lines but Ryan loves how it turned out and he is right, it still looks ok with the curves.

White glass with bordeaux frit

Some more cards...

This is a 10cm square card that I made to use up scraps from the card you're gonna see right after this. I'm just to lazy to reorder the photos lol.

Again, this one is using up leftovers from the card you're gonna see after this one. This is Ryan's favourite of the night.

This one drove me crazy, I ended up peeling the 'DAD' off and repositioning it to a more central position. Lucky I'd used repositionable adhesive!

And the pendant. I dont really like it. I think I might have cooked it a little too long as it's not as strongly coloured as I'd expected.

Glasswork

Tonight I also made two glass pendants. One I have a photo of here but one is still cooling in the microwave so I will have to load it later/tomorrow.

So this is what I start with, black glass and a bag of frit (sorta like glass shards). This bag is called 'Aloha'. I cut the glass to the size I want (here's one I prepared earlier :P).


Then add glass glue and a pile of frit (note: this is the colour of the pendant still cooling in the microwave because I forgot to take a photo of aloha loaded on the glass and ready to go).


Into the special kiln and into the microwave for around 10 minutes (you have to slowly build up the temperature of the glass or it will crack but black glass is a lot less temperamental plus I like it more than white lol).

And here is the outcome! So what you see here is the 'cooked' version of the first photo. These cant be worn yet, they need to be slow fired in a proper kiln before I can attach them to jewellery. When this was done, I loved the colours but my first thought was 'Whoa, this is a bit of a 'Chrissy' looking colour scheme!' This was cooked less on a high temperature than the first pendant I made, thus the colours are more 'blob' than 'bleeding' if that makes sense? I think the next time I try that technique, I'll let the frit start closer to the edge so the whole pendant is colourful not just the centre.

I'll upload the second pendant (which is of the second photo, it's called 'spring violet' frit).

MY FIRST PENDANT!!!

I am so excited about this!! Here is a photo of my first ever glass pendant!!! Do you like it? It's black glass with a pink/green/gold crystal (what the heck is that stuff called, I cant remember). So the photo is rather deceptive,the green is very subtle and you only get it in certain lights, the colour that is the most obvious is the pink. I've left that bottom photo bigger so you can click it and see what it really looks like. Also, there is a tiny bit of fire paper on the side of it that I havent removed properly (coz I dont remember how lol).

The next step is to have it slow fired in a kiln then I can glue on the pendant attachment and choose a necklace type for it. Traditionally I always give away the first I make of something. I think I'm going to give this one to my sister Louise.

Isnt it amazing that I made this from a square chunk of glass!?