Glass Fusing Stringer Blocks
Fuse a sheet of stringers laid side by side, cut it at an angle, then mirror the pieces into a block. The stripes meet as chevrons and the block repeats around a centre.
1. The stringer sheet
Stringers laid side by side on clear and fused flat. This is the striped sheet you will cut up — make it before you cut anything.
Stringers are about 17.75 in (451 mm) long, so a sheet longer than that needs them butted end to end.
2. The stripe sequence
Repeat runs your colors in order over and over. Mirror runs them out and back, so the sheet is symmetrical. Gradient blends from the first color to the last across the sheet.
Separate striped sheets, each its own firing and its own colour family. One sheet only ever gives you one set of stripes — the intricate pieces are built from several, cut up and combined.
How many stringers make one stripe of a single color.
3. Cutting and the block
The angle you cut the fused sheet at. The stripes then run across each piece at that angle — 45° is what gives the classic zigzag.
Rings out from the centre. Each band is cut from a different part sheet, which is what gives the nested look.
Mirroring is what makes the stripes meet as chevrons instead of spiralling all one way. It is the whole look.
Separator lines
Stringers laid along the seams before the final firing. They stop two busy bands from running into each other, and they read as the drawn line in the finished piece.
Color
Only the 75 Bullseye colors that are actually made as stringer are offered here.
Printing
Set the scale to 100% and turn off “fit to page”. The cut patterns print at true size, so you can lay a fused sheet straight onto the paper and mark the pieces. Anything wider than a page tiles across several — trim, line up the corner marks and tape the back. A 50 mm check box prints first; measure it before trusting the rest.