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Now you can try my techniques in your own home studio.

Step-by-step PDFs with patterns, glass colors, and notes from the kiln. These tutorials cover selected projects from the studio: Annie's most popular ornaments plus the Controlled Stringer technique. Not every piece in the gallery has a tutorial, only the projects Annie has fully developed step-by-step. Print them, mark them up, and fire something new from your own studio. New tutorials are added throughout the year.

Cardinal Ornament tutorial: a red fused-glass cardinal perched on a holly branch.
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Cardinal Ornament

A cheerful red cardinal on a holly branch. The first ornament I ever taught, still my favorite to make. 8 pages.

$10 Buy
Snowflake Ornament tutorial: three iridescent fused-glass snowflakes with gift cards.
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Snowflake Ornament

No two snowflakes alike, and that's the whole point. A friendly intro to overlapping clear and white glass.

$10 Buy
Angel Ornament tutorial: a fused-glass angel with iridescent blue gown, white wings, and a gold bow.
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Angel Ornament

Soft curves, iridescent blues, a gold bow. Good for someone you miss this season.

$10 Buy
Controlled Stringer Technique tutorial: a fused-glass panel of a sunset behind tree silhouettes, made entirely from melted glass stringers.
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Controlled Stringer Technique

Many of you have melted stringers side by side. This takes it up a notch: lay stringers over clear glass for sunsets, palms, and painterly abstracts. 10 pages.

$15 Buy
The Ornament Book by Annie: a contents page showing a dozen fused-glass ornament projects.
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The Ornament Book

A dozen ornament projects gathered into one PDF, with materials lists and step-by-step photos for each.

$35 Buy
Trees Tutorial cover: a fused-glass landscape of tall trees with detailed branches and dappled light.
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Trees

A landscape of fused-glass trees, with stringer detail in the branches. Patterns and notes from the kiln for each layer.

$30 Buy
Forest Tranquility Tutorial cover: a quiet fused-glass tree-scene landscape panel.
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Forest Tranquility

A quiet tree-scene panel. The simpler of the two tree tutorials. A friendly project if you're new to layered landscapes.

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Underwater Scene Tutorial cover: a fused-glass underwater scene with coral, sea fans, and bubbles.
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Underwater Scene

Coral, sea fans, bubbles. Layered turquoise and blue glass with luminescent accents. The companion to Underwater Fantasy in the Cobalt room.

$30 Buy
Sunset Pendant Tutorial cover: a small fused-glass pendant of a sunset, made with fired enamels.
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Sunset Pendant

A small wearable sunset. Made with fired enamels (Colors for Earth). A short project, good for a first try with enamels.

$15 Buy
Holy Scrap Tutorial cover: a fused-glass panel of monarch butterflies over a wildflower field, built on a scrap-glass background.
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Holy Scrap

A way to use up all that scrap glass piling up next to the kiln. Build freeform textured backgrounds, any shape, any size that fits the kiln. 10 pages.

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A free tutorial, just for visiting the site. More may follow.

Markers on Glass free tutorial cover: photos of Sharpie, Posca, and other markers before and after firing on clear, black, and white glass.
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Markers on Glass

A side-by-side of how different markers (Sharpie, Posca, and more) behave on clear, black, and white glass after firing. Samples fired up to 1380°. Good reference before you commit a marker to a piece.

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