Murrini Monday roundup, January – March

On New Year’s Day I made a post with a resolution to create a new murrini (glass rod with a pattern inside) each week this year.  From the looks of it on the blog here, I’ve not been successful, but in fact I have!  I’ve been posting them each week on my Instagram account and decided to post them here on the blog in 3 month increments.  They’re not really worthy of a whole blog post on their own each week, so figured for over here this was a better format.

I’m still learning, so there are some winners and some stinkers in the mix, hopefully by the end of the year we’ll see progress in my skills.  Below is the batch from January – March, during this time we had a month of all hearts in celebration of February and some skills tests, like trying to see if I could create a triangle and pull it while keeping the triangle shape.

Hope to be posting here more regularly soon.  There’s been a lot going on in addition to coming up with new murrini to make each week.  I’ve been busy in my studio getting ready for a dual exhibition with another artist coming in May!  Hope to have more on that to share soon!  In the mean time, here’s 3 months worth of murrini!  😀

Week 1 – my logo in murrini

Week 2 – purple and dark purple abstract

Week 3 – an M signature cane, then combined to create a double M

Week 4 – purple and dark purple circles

Week 5 – skills test trying to make a triangle, pull it, coat it in different colors and repull it

Week 6 – Heart’s month! Red and black abstract pattern

Week 7 – Red and blue long skinny heart

Week 8 – black and white heart, this one was my favorite, the shape was so nice.

Week 9 – bad heart that turned out ugly, so a recovery with a brown an cream.

Week 10 – Simple flower

Week 11 – couple of abstract parts to later combine into a larger murrini

Week 12 – more abstract parts

Week 13 – the combined parts all stuck together!