For the final part of this series, I followed the pattern I created last week to make a wall-hanging. The pattern was twenty-four by fifty rows, it and took about three/four hours to finish once the base strings were cut and strung onto the dowel. To see more of my work, I’m on Instagram under […]
The first step in making a wall hanging is threading the dowel with the base strings. Because DMC thread is so thin, I’m able to use kitchen skewers cut down to a shorter length. The pattern I’ve created is 24 strings wide, so I cut twenty-four individual strings and folded them in half to make […]
For this project, I’m working on creating my own pattern rather than following one that someone else designed, which is what I often do. When I started working on this, I knew I wanted to try and base my own design off of something from New York, and so I went back through some photographs […]
For the month of November, we are interviewing artist Padrick Newton about his glass work. I started blowing glass in August 2015, and within six months I quit my 9-5 to pursue my glass career. I knew it would have its difficulties, and within a couple months I was living in my car. It took […]