Betty's Beveled Cross Panel is slightly smaller than the second one that she is currently making (which we'll see later on) but equally as appealing. She's had the beveled cross sets sitting around for years now and is very happy to finally use them and get them off of her shelf.
Jeannette's Easter Basket was finished this week and she made the entire process look easy. This went together quickly and efficiently and we already have someone else asking about using the pattern.
Linda L completed her Easter Bunny Window which was going to be a gift until she realized that she'd already made one of these for the person she was going to gift it to. That just means that Linda has another window that she can sell in time for Easter (and who wouldn't want this?)
Sheri's latest Mushroom is another wonderful window decoration. he also knocked out this stunning Iridized Green Hummingbird as well. Again, her colors are spectacular and her craftsmanship is perfection.
Ann's completed her newest Modern Cross and what can I possibly say about this that hasn't been said before? I don't think its possible for her to make a bad cross at this point in time!
Kerry's Cardinal is coming together in a large way now that his background glass has been cut. He's had to reverse the pattern and the glass pieces so he could grind it with the back side up since the Holly Berry glass is so heavily textured on the back side. The pieces were just raised too high when compared to the rest of the (smooth) pieces. Don't even ask about what happened when I tried to flip everything all at one for him. Talk about a bad idea!
Here's a look at a Beveled Fleur De Lis and the second Beveled Cross that Betty is working on. This cross doesn't touch the border glass the way the one at the top of this post did. It doubles the amount of background pieces that it takes to make the window but There isn't that much of a difference between four pieces and eight pieces.
Jeannette wanted a Seashell Pattern and this is what we came up with. She's got one shell done and has 3 more to go on what I'm sure will be a beautiful Window.
Cindy's Deer Head features a very heavily textured glass embossed with leaves which was NOT easy to cut. One piece was broken and will need to be replaced but due to the heavy, busy pattern it won't be anything that grabs your attention. Before she called it a night Cindy goat a beautiful multi-colored border cut out. This window is almost finished.
Martha's '59 Belair Window has completely taken shape now that she has everything cut out. Her grinding is spot on and everything is fitting together nicely. Alas, many of the pieces of the car itself will need to be wrapped in the smaller 3/16 foil since they are so thin. If she used the normal 7/32 foil on the thin pieces the odds of them breaking while they are being soldered would increase dramatically, and no one wants to try to break out thin pieces to repair them.
Susan D has numerous projects underway(as always) which include a new silverware Dragonfly, and a stunning 3D Bee which will be tacked on top of the multicolored Honeycomb that you see below.
Annette's Angels were so close to being completed that it was a shame we had to call it a night and not get them finished. With the entirety of the the front soldered and a good third of the back side started this will surely be completed upon her return. If you look to the right of the Angels you'll see that Annette also has a Butterfly Lawn Ornament started as well. She's always working on something while she's at home, that's for sure.
Susan R's Rosebud is all ground and wrapped now which means that this will be soldered and staked before you know it. You can also see that Susan made a stained glass candy corn to replace the jewel that she originally hung in the center of her Geometric Suncatcher.
With her background newsprint glass all foiled Angie was able to carefully (and sparingly) apply flux to her pieces and then tack everything together. Although the print has been fired onto the glass the flux may affect the deepness of the color so we're playing it safe and being very careful while applying it. There are now just two borders left to go on this!
Linda cut the final piece of her background and once that was attached she decided to use a thin purple border as an accent color. The problem after that was deciding what color to use for the final border. Going back to the background glass is always a safe choice for a final border but but no one in class cared for the way that looked. After much pondering and after holding MANY pieces of glass along side her window Linda settled on using the accent glass that she used in the fruit bowl itself. We will see how that looks next week when she actually cuts it.
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Let was busy as she always is and her final border has been perfectly cut and ground for her Oval Victorian Rose. I have no doubt that she'll have this soldered when she comes back in because Let never rests (when it comes down to her glass work).
Shelley has her Flag and Rifle Window all ground together now and then took it along home with her so she could wrap it before she comes back in. All this needs is a channel around it and some solder to finish it off since she's forgoing a border.
Judy's Crab Window had its missing pieces filled in and then she picked out a sheet of reeded root beer for the border. There are some delicate, thin pieces in this window so Judy will have to be patient and use the 'One Pass and Let It Cool' method of soldering on it. Thin pieces break easily with heat so you want to apply as little of it as you can by constantly jumping around while soldering. This allows the heat to dissipate from those thin pieces so that heat-breaks don't occur.
Linda L got the border and the roof cut for her Nativity Window this week. I suspect she'll be soldering this upon her return, after which she'll begin the side panels for this set of three windows.
MiMi has cut as much of her traditional window that she could from one sheet of the hammered glass she's using. The rest will be pieced onto this large section once she tacks what has already been cut and ground together. This will ensure a practically seamless match.
Jan's Our Lady of Guadalupe Window was essentially completed this week. The only thing left for her to do on this is to wash it, color it, and hang it up for its picture which we'll see when we return.
With the front side of her Cat Panel soldered June has flipped it over and begun applying lead to the back side of it. There's no doubt that we will see this completed upon her return.
And here at the end of the blog we see that Cheryl completed the soldering on both sides of her Cardinal Window and will touch it up and finish it off when she returns. That means that her window will be at the top pf the blog next week!
And that's all she wrote!
Paul
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