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Pink Glass Tutorial for Lampwork

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Just released yesterday, a new online tutorial by Kandice Seeber.  Glass Color Families:  Pinks.

Pink is one of the hardest colors to tackle in lampworking.  First, it’s hard to find a shade of pink that isn’t washed out and then when you do find one, it’s not the most simple color to work in the flame.  If it isn’t bubbling and getting a metallic sheen on it, it’s losing its color the more you work it.

Many lampworkers have given up in even trying to get a good pink, while others plug along layering color atop color to get that shade that is just right.

One of the people who has a passion and love for the color pink in glass is Kandice Seeber.  That characteristic along with her crisp images and delicate, precise work is, I’m sure, to be a hit with this new tutorial.  If you want to learn how to work pink right and get all the right shades, that just might be the place to do it.

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You can choose to use two contrasting solid yarns, a solid and a gradient or two complimentary gradients for your yarns. And you can use any weight of yarn and whatever gauge you like to make shawls of different sizes. There are also a bunch of different size options (seven, in fact) that take the project from a little collar like design to something more like a scarf to a large shawl that wraps around the neck to keep you warm. 

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There are lots of yarn suggestions on the pattern page on Ravelry, and I love the color choices the designer made so much I’d definitely be tempted to use the same colors they did (there are a couple of different versions on the pattern page if you want to see how it looks in different sizes and different colors). 

I love the little diamond shapes a the edges of the pieces, which add a little more drama to the project, as if it needed more. 

I’m still not sure this boils down to anything beyond this project looks really cool and you should probably knit it, but that’s pretty much how I pick all the projects I share, so I guess that’s fine. You can check it out for yourself and grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry. 

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