by Jodi McRaney Rusho | Sep 30, 2013 | Bottle Glass, Fusing, Glass Info, Inclusions, Jodi's Projects, Kiln Carving, Q & A Monday, Slumping, Tech Tips
Lots of readers send me their questions directly, but there are a whole host of questions that get asked anonymously. One tool that I use to help decide what to write about is Google Keyword Search statistics. Now, alas, Google is discontinuing the service, so as a...
by Jodi McRaney Rusho | May 22, 2013 | Bottle Glass, Fusing, Kiln Carving Patterns, Tutorials
Here’s a quirky follow up to our April Showers Kiln carving pattern. Because what naturally follows April Showers?? May Flowers of course! Step 1 **This kiln carving pattern has expired. Monthly kiln carving patterns expire 90 days after posting. Not to...
by Jodi | Mar 25, 2013 | Bottle Glass, Casting, Engraving, Q & A Monday, Tech Tips
The great thing about Q & A Monday is I have to do it on MONDAY. If it were just called Q & A then I would put it off and we would never get to the questions and answers! These questions are from readers and the answers that I sent back to them. They are...
by Jodi | Nov 1, 2012 | Bottle Glass, Fusing, Kiln Carving Patterns
November’s kiln carving pattern is an abstract pattern of dots in a circle that is specially sized to fit the bottom of a large bottle. This one is the bottom of a pickle bottle. Step 1. This pattern is no longer available as an individual download. To...
by Jodi | Aug 15, 2012 | Bottle Glass, Fusing, Tools, Tutorials
In the last post we made a triangle bead mold for making fused glass beads. Today, we are going to walk through how to use the mold. Step 1 – Line with Thin-Fire I cut my thin fire about 1/4″ (.6 cm) higher than the walls of my mold to compensate for...
