Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Nov 22
Number Plaque
Here’s the finished number plaque that I made the poppy tiles for (shown in an earlier post). I cut the background green tiles out of stained glass, with the help of my daughters (since ones hand hurts after cutting too many tiles, I needed help.) Cutting the background tiles was rather time-consuming, but it saves …
Nov 20
Practice Beads
Since I’d made all kinds of green and pink and lavender radially symmetrical canes for the floral beads, and I didn’t want to make any more floral beads, I used up the canes and practiced placing dots on these clear glass forms. I really like the way dots can look when they’re accurately placed. One …
Nov 18
Lavender Floral Bead
This is what the lampworking workshop I took in August was designed to teach. You can get very pretty beads if you are good at this technique. I’m not so interested in pretty, so I only made this one.
Nov 16
Black Floral Beads
I took a class in lampworking that was to teach this floral technique. It makes very girly, feminine, frilly beads. I soon figured out that while the techniques were interesting (making a simple radially symmetrical cane and then using it to add details), I didn’t like the way the beads looked. Still, I thought I ought to …
Nov 14
Black Weed Book
I think I like this best of the books in the rainbow series. It’s predominantly red, which is one of my favorite colors, so that’s part of it. This was one of the first ones I finished, so I wasn’t terribly concerned about making it that different. I decided to just go with the background …