Lara's finished her Peonies Window and the end result is spectacular. Generally symbolic of love, honor, happiness wealth, romance, and beauty, the peony is traditionally given on special occasions as an expression of goodwill, best wishes, and joy. In other words, this is going to fit into her house perfectly!
Mary Grace was happy to complete her second and final Peacock Window. This is a mirror image of the first one that she made but she changed the color of the bird and the flowers. Now you might think that this wouldn't match the first window but the thin blue border and the textured background glass that matches between the window instantly tells you that these birds are a pair!
Annette's Mother Mary and Child Suncatcher, as best as I can recall, has never been made before. I drew it up about two years ago and never had the time to make one myself so our students never saw that pattern until Annette discovered it when I was going through my scanned pattern pictures!
Linda L made six of these little Santa Faces which she's using as necklace pendants. The problem is that when we make jewelry we have to use lead free solder which doesn't flow nearly as well as actual solder. Still, Linda managed to do a impressively well on soldering these and even incorporated round lead-free solder balls for the eyes which were then gone over with a permanent Sharpie marker for added effect.
Annette was certainly busy because she also completed another Grinch Hand this week! Once you do one of these and understand where the problem spots are you can fly through the unique ornament holders.
Angie's Seafood Window is under construction again after Hurricane Ida sidetracked it for a while. Even though the roof of the building this was in didn't survive, the glass that Angie cut was left untouched. Now it's together again on top of a new paper pattern and Angie is wrapping all of her pieces so she can tack them together and cut a glass newspaper background behind it all.
Jan's taking a break from her Our Lady of Guadalupe Window and working on this lovely Iris Window this week for some mental relaxation. As you can see, it's ready to be foiled and then tacked together after which Jan will select a border or borders to finish it all off.
Annette's Santa Face Window has seemingly appeared out of nowhere since it's been ages since I last got a picture of it to post here. Or did I ever post it at all??? Anyway, I have to say that this is my all time favorite Santa Face window and I think the reason is plain to see when you look at the work Annette's already done on hers.
When we last saw Steve he was trying to decide whether his Fleur De Lis window should be round or oval. A quick glance below shows you what he decided it should be. This week he cut and ground all of the glass and did a real bang up job on making sure that it is perfectly circular. What makes this a little trickier than normal is that this is only about 8 inches in diameter. Smaller pieces are ALWAYS harder to work with.
Kerry's Fleur De 'Vee' Window has been completely assembled and now only needs to be soldered to become a finished project. He needs this to be completed during his next class us and I have absolutely no doubt that it will be. We always meet our deadlines successfully!
Speaking of deadlines, This window by Susan D also needs to be completed when she next returns to class. And once again I have no worries about that not happening especially since she's taken this along home with her to solder during the week.
Linda F is back to work on her Birds On A Branch Window and focused on getting all of the tiny eyes cut and ground into place for each of the birds. There are ten birds in total but there are only 12 eyes altogether since 8 of the birds are seen from a side angle. That certainly simplified things because dealing with small 1/8 inch eyeballs can be maddening!
Next up we look at Cheryl's window which features four Cardinals. In this class she worked on her rather elaborate border which consists of three layers. It's all a precise hodge-podge of verticals mixed with horizontal lines and vice versa which makes it a far more time consuming border than most other windows.
With her Ruby Slippers Window nearly completed, Martha decided to solder the back side while at home. For the remainder of the class she worked on cutting out and grinding a Modern Cross. I have a sneaking suspicion that we'll see both completed upon her return.
Melissa began work on a large Butterfly Lawn Ornament and by the time class ended she had it all cut out and almost completely ground as well. She'll wrap this when she comes back in and possibly even finish it up and take it home!
Shelley was a bit late to class this week (she's a busy woman!) but that didn't stop her from changing out a few pieces of her Mermaid Suncatcher and getting most of it foiled as well. This project will be finished before you know it.
Poor Mary had to start her Heart/Angel Wing Suncatcher over again because the other was dropped and shattered on the ground while she was at home. And I thought our concrete floors were unforgiving! Well, let's call it a blessing in disguise because she's changed the glass that she used for the wings to one that she likes far more than the wispy translucent white that she was using in the (now) broken wings version.
Judy cut out the clear background for her LSU Window and since we didn't have any appropriate yellow for the actual letters themselves she ground all of the pieces that she cut. The bad news is that the clear background is practically invisible in the picture but the good news is that Judy's yellow glass was delivered today so she'll be able to continue working on this when she comes back in.
Here's a look at all of Linda L's Santa Faces that she made. I only highlighted one of them in the beginning of this post because they are all identical. But in the end I didn't want to short change any of Linda's hard work by just glossing over the other five Santa's.
Roxane will be starting an Address Window soon and this might be the pattern unless she decides to run it in the other direction (vertically) in which case we'll simply re-adjust the numbers.
Lastly, Sheri wanted to make a Grinch Face Suncatcher that would make him appear to be looking into a window. All we did was take the standard Grinch pattern, angle it slightly, and cut a right angle onto the bottom left of the suncatcher. That's how you make a Peeping Grinch Window pattern!
Good news-- Our semi weekly tip posts will very well be returning soon. I've got about one more week of work to go on our huge 12 foot by 5 foot window scene (split across 3 windows) and once that's completed things will return back to normal. It will be nice to sit down and not feel guilty about not working on that rather massive order.
Paul
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