Lisa Vogt Art Adventure Blog: Gerber Daisy Dish How-to

Endless fusing fun is here! Celebrate the spirit of carefree days, fragrant flowers and peaceful picnics before summer slips away.

I enjoy having pretty, seasonally themed functional art in my kitchen. The dual purpose decorations brighten up the space, and at the same time minimize clutter on the counter.

In my kitchen, the two small round dishes serve as spoon rests. I have one delicate blossom on either side of my stove. The larger bouquet bowl sits beside my kitchen sink; it holds my sponge.

You’ll love how fast and easy these delights are to make and they’re economical as well. These small scale beauties use very little material, therefore it’s easy to justify making more seasonal dishes with an autumn theme next month when we usher in the rich colors of fall.

So, let’s jump right in. Then you can zip out to your glass studio, spend quality time with your glass cutter and cozy up to your kiln!

How to make the dishes:

Round dishes: 4 inch circle

Square dish: 6 inch x 6 inch square

Round dishes:

Cut 2 - 4 inch circles out of clear fusible glass.

Cut a 2 inch wide strip of orange opal, yellow opal and red opal glass. Cut the strips into long triangles. Round off the corners of the triangles with pliers. Collect the frit for the flower centers. Select a color and arrange the petals on the clear base glass. Select a second color and stack the petals on the previous layer. Sprinkle the frit you made shaping the petals in the middle of each flower to make a pretty center. Use a small amount of fuser’s glue to hold the glass securely when you load the assembled project into the kiln.

Square dish:

Cut 1 – 6 inch square out of clear fusible.

Cut 1 – 6 inch square out of blue opal glass. Stack the blue opal on the clear base. Arrange the flower petals on the blue glass to make three partial flowers. Sprinkle the frit you made shaping the petals in the middle of each flower to make a pretty center. Use a small amount of fuser’s glue to hold the glass securely when you load the assembled project into the kiln.

Fuse the assembled project using the firing guide below. Slump the fused glass into molds using the firing guide below.

Firing Guides

Full Fuse: Heat the assembled glass at a rate of 300 degrees per hour to 1300, hold 30 minutes, 500 degrees per hour to 1465 degrees, hold 10 minutes.

Reduce the temperature as fast as possible to 1000 degrees, hold at 960 degrees for 40 minutes. Let the glass and kiln cool to room temperature undisturbed.

Slumping: Heat the fused glass in the slumping mold at a rate of 300 degrees per hour to 1265 degrees, hold 10 minutes.

Reduce the temperature as fast as possible to 1000 degrees, hold at 960 degrees for 40 minutes. Let the glass and kiln cool to room temperature undisturbed.

*Kilns fire differently. Test fire the firing guides and adjust if needed.

Enjoy your studio time!

Happy fusing!

Lisa

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