Designed to help you continue to build your fine stringer skill set, this course focuses on the ends of our stringer lines. We'll focus on the smallest details of heat control while discussing techniques for avoiding balled up ends and consistently achieving clean blunt ends on our line work. We'll also use surface tension to discover the joys of dragging our line terminations. The graphic design possibilities for your new skill sets are virtually endless!
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 while we become aware of "the zone" of heat next to the flame.
Pulling stringer
Finding the zone
Printable notes: Finding the zone
One line at a time
Here we will explore each line, or end of a line, one at a time. We'll draw end caps and lines all the way across long beads in both thick and thin stringer, exploring heat dynamics and a lot of things that can go wrong. We'll discuss starting and stopping lines with clean blunt ends. And we'll discuss tearing off and dragging out the ends of our lines with a fresh look at surface tension.
How I make end caps
How I draw a line across a long bead
Printable notes: End caps and lines
How I get crisp, blunt ends on my lines
Printable notes: How to get blunt ends on your lines
How I drag and rip off the ends of my lines
Printable handout: Dragging and ripping off line ends
Putting it all together
In this section we will put all our new skills together to create striped heart beads from base bead to encasing to section dividing lines to hearts and stripes.
