Who's crafty and what do you do? - Page 2

**bluehawq**[$] · #41 12-13-2002, 12:27 AM

Melanie,

Those are very pretty! Nice work.

I did a glass etching on smoked glass years ago. It was of a leopard and then I framed it in a rustic wood. It was pretty, but we had a house fire and it went with it.

Maybe some day I will do something else with etching. It is fun and relaxing.

You sure did a great job on the glasses.

Aud

Redlass · #42 12-13-2002, 12:32 AM

Actually, this might be more helpful:

Pattern straight from Lion Brand site

One with a dramatically different collar

This is the Jiffy yarn (which is really easy to work with):

Description on the site is:
"Quick and easy to work, velvety soft, 2 ply brushed 100% acrylic that looks like mohair. Machine washable and dryable. Solid colors (except 111 Heather Blue and 151 Dusty Grey) 3 oz./85 gm. (135 yd.) balls, Multi-colors (and 111 Heather Blue and 151 Dusty Grey) 2.5 oz./70 gm. (115 yd.) balls."

They do not call Imagine a mohair like yarn, so perhaps I'm wrong. It's what I think of though. Imagine looks like this:

I plan to make myself a blanket out of it sometime next year. I bought the yarn years ago and its been sitting in a box in my closet while I salivate over it.

And don't even get me started on chenilles!! *dreamy sigh*

Redlass · #43 12-13-2002, 12:40 AM

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Originally posted by lynnzop
Bridgette, you make one hell of a scrunchie, if I may say so.

Lynn

Oh! I missed this. Don't I look ungracious!

Thank you! I'm glad that you liked them.

I actually got the pictures of them back recently (I try to get pictures of everything I make so that I can stick them with the patterns and decide whether I want to do them again.) If I can find what I did with the darn CD, I'll post pictures.

And Naomi, my friend's mother tats. I watched her doing it at a show the other day (and she continued to do it in the dark). It doesn't look difficult, but it looks very exacting. The results are beautiful. I'd encourage you to try it!

**theworm**[$] · #44 12-13-2002, 09:12 AM

Melanie,
Those glasses are beautiful! I've always wanted to try glass etching, but for some reason I'm scared. If I could make things lik that - Maybe I should try! Is it hard?

Redlass · #45 12-13-2002, 11:29 AM

Now that I'm on a computer where I can actually see images...

Those are beautiful, Melanie. Were they solid frosted when you bought them and you added the stars and circles? You do really lovely work.

What others sort of etchings do you do?

Redlass · #46 12-13-2002, 04:37 PM

Lion has a new yarn that they've just released:

Quote:

Bouclé is a color-rich mohair blend that combines the textural curls and loops of bouclé with easy care.

Has lots of vareigated colors including one called Gelato:

*emeleel* · #47 12-13-2002, 10:27 PM

Oh, glass etching is one of the easiest things in the world to do! Just head down to the craft store and buy a bottle of etching compound. Warning, it's a little pricy - $10 for one small bottle at Michael's, unless you have one of their weekly 40% off coupons.

What I did on the glasses was reverse etching. Normally, you do etching much as one would stencil on something - apply the acid inside a cut out stencil. For mine, though, I applied star stickers randomly all over the glasses, the applied the acid all over over the entire glass. The stars remained clear, and the rest of the glass came out etched. Two tricky things I found: getting a smooth-ish line at the bottom where I wanted to end the etching, and getting that much acid applied smoothly wasn't as easy as I'd hoped.

I did find something today at Michaels that would have been muuuuuuch better, but it was $30 - a "bath" kit for this kind of reverse etching. It makes a much smoother, matte finish for such large etching work.

For regular etching: cover your glass with Contact paper, then trace the design you want to make. Cut out the design with an exacto knife, then carefully pull it out. Make sure the edges around the cuts are smoothed all the way down and you don't have any bubbles along the edge that acid could sneak under. Put on rubber gloves, dip a brush in your acid, then apply a thick coat of the acid all over the open part of your stencil. Make sure you have a wide area of contact paper still around the edges of your stencil so that you won't slip and get it somewhere on the glass you didn't intend for it to go.

Let sit for 5 minutes, then simply rinse off.

There are also pre-made rub-on stencils that you can apply to your glass, and with those, you only have to let the acid sit for 60 seconds.

I only know the basics, I'm sure there is a lot more that can be done with etching.

I made snowflake glasses today!

*emeleel* · #48 12-13-2002, 10:38 PM

P.S. Thanks for the compliments! They don't actually look quite so good in person, but they are pretty nice.

**theworm**[$] · #49 12-14-2002, 08:55 AM

Thanks, Melanie!
I'm going to try it! It sounds fun, and you're glasses look beautiful! It's a great gift idea! I could get inexpensive glasses, vases, whatever at the dollar store - etch them, fill them with candy or bath beads - wrap them in colored celephane and voila. Inexpensive, hand-made presents. I'm going to try a few and then use that gift idea for next year!!!