Start your adventure into fine stringer work with this course! Let's get to know your flame, pull some stringer and make some bead sets while we practice to gain skills. Start stringer-ing with the line around the bead and the line across the bead and you've already opened a universe of design possibilities with a solid foundation in an advanced set of stringer skills!
Contents
Class information
Information about this class and the skills training offered. Here you can find inspiration photos, supply lists, and more.
Let's get ready to stringer! Here we take a look at pulling our stringer long and straight, become aware of "the zone" of heat next to the flame, and prepare glass to create size controlled sets.
How I make sets
Pulling stringer
Finding the zone
Printable notes: Finding the zone
One line at a time
Here we'll focus on just one line in each video, breaking each technique into it's components and examining how to keep the stringer in your control. Lines include end caps, lines across round or accent beads, and lines that go all the way around a round bead.
How I make end caps
How I draw lines across the bead
How I draw a line around the bead
Printable notes: End caps and lines
Putting it all together
In this section we'll put all our new skills together to make a full plaid beads set from laying out our prep work to the final beads.
