Linda L's stained glass Clock is an unquestionable show stopper. Since this is a 25th Anniversary present Linda decided to leave the lead silver to 'match' the silver anniversary and her use of silver Van Gogh glass is perfect. Finally, to keep things in balance she spray painted the hands of the clock silver as well. There's not a hint of gold or copper in sight here and the end effect is as elegant as can be.
Mary Grace assembled this gorgeous Colored Beveled Hanging Planter but changed things up a bit by not placing it inside of a window, but rather hanging it as a suncatcher. To do that she simply added three straight wires that connect to a ring which it then hangs from. It's quite stunning don't you think?
Steve has the second panel of his Southern Belle finished and is ready to move onto panel number three.
Below we can see the sum of Steve's work so far. Another piece of the puzzle is now in position as the full picture has officially begun to take shape.
Susan D completed three Tulip Flowerpot Ornaments and has these down to a science now. From start to finish she can knock them out with the greatest of ease. And yes, that includes adding the stakes all by herself (which I've regrettably cropped out in the picture below).
Lorrie's first window was a great pick because this Dragonfly scene has a lot of flowing curves as well as a few tricky cuts that will allow her to hone her unfolding skills. Looking at what she has accomplished in just one night was extremely impressive to me. What you see below hasn't even been ground and I don't believe that she broke even a single piece while cutting all of this out! There's no doubt that she'll be working at the grinder when she comes back in because cutting out her background glass won't take her long at all.
Look out because Patrice is back! This Umbrella Lady is so popular that Patrice is making another one. She may not have cut any glass in the two or three years since we last saw her but she certainly hasn't lost her touch! Oh, and just for the record, her background 'rain' glass is all cut out-- it's just hard to see when it's sitting on top of the pattern.
And Carol is back as well. She's picked up exactly where she left off by cutting her Tiger's Eyes into place, tacking everything that she had previously cut and foiled, and then adding a border. That's a very productive night, and her LSU/Tiger Eye Window is looking pretty darned fine to me.
Speaking of LSU and Tigers- MiMi is working on a rather large 'football' window of her own which features a walking tiger with stripes that spell out L S U. That's hard to see those letters its current un-ground state but they will become apparent once all the pieces are in their correct position. I'm still impressed at how much she accomplished on this since last week.
Bee managed to complete her Door Window Insert but didn't have the time to wash and color it. Hopefully we will get a picture of this when it's installed because her plans were to finish it off while at home. When she comes back in she'll most likely begin working on an insert for the second door in her new house which will be a larger variation of this design.
Jan's bleeding has stopped and this week there was no blood spilled as she resumed grinding her Pelican Window. It won't be long before she's able to begin wrapping all of these pieces in foil (after she washes them clean first!)
Lisa is happy because all of the cutting and grinding for her Texas Collage Window is over with. Even better yet, she's got a good portion of her pieces foiled as well. She's still unsure about what she'll do for a border but once this is tacked together she can lift it up and hold different pieces of glass next to it to get a proper feel for what it will look like.
Betty got the background glass cut out for her Modern Tulip Window as well as two other borders for her Rectangular Etched Bevels. She's also attached a brass channel to one of her Bevels and I suspect that we will see the lot of these, if not all of them, completed upon her return.
Let's Ospray Window is taking flight. In just one short week she has already managed to cut out most of the bird itself. She's been carefully choosing her colors based on the previous colors that she's already cut and I think she's spot on. When this gets some light behind it her glass choices are going to soar!
Sheri is working on a Modern Tulip design of her own and has all but the background glass cut out for it. She had to change the size of this from the one that Betty is doing and when the pattern got enlarged on a copier it got twisted a bit so she spent the first part of the class trying to straighten it all out. In the end we had to redraw it but to make things simple we only drew out one of the Tulips which she will repeat three times. She's going to grind and tack together each one separately after which she will then join them together to form one large window.
Linda F's Skating Snowman Snowglobe is all soldered and just needs a little bit of tap-tapping around the edges to finish it off. We've had to reschedule our Tuesday morning class due to weather conditions and hopefully Linda will be able to accommodate the different day because there's no doubt that this will be completed when she comes back in.
With her delicate Rainbow colored strips cut, ground, and wrapped Shelley is ready to cut the five pieces of her background. Although Shelley may have had to re-cut two of her rainbow strips she was able to handle those incredibly thin pieces very well. It's not uncommon to break thin, long pieces of glass or even have them snap while grinding or wrapping them-- it's just par for the course. All that aside, this is going to be a simple but impressive window for sure.
Then we have Kerry who finished cutting his Mardi Gras Mask and then went over to the grinder where he ground the lower portion of the mask. He's been really stepping up his game of late and has been able to fly through projects at an impressive rate of speed.
Susan R only needs to do some tap-tapping and some wire work for this Squirrel's face to finish it off. Oh and then there's the twisted wire that needs to be added which will holds the rain gauge that this is being made to display. All in all, there's not much left to go on this.
It looks to me as though Susan D's second Santa Sleigh is ready to get some channel attached to it and then some decorative wire work. I'm so impressed at how great the Van Gogh glass runners on her sleigh look but that's to be expected by Susan!
Ann is working steadily on a new Round Background section of her newest 3D window. Somehow she ended up with two different patterns for this design and they've somehow been mixed up or something because the numbering is off between the pattern and the paper pattern pieces. Because of that she's having to figure out where each piece goes which is slowing her down-- but only by a bit.
Cheryl's Address window is almost all wrapped and is just about ready to be tacked together. There are only 2 more pieces of white background glass left to cut but to make this window as square as possible she's going to wait to cut those two pieces until after this is tacked together. After that it's just borders left to go.
With the front side of her Razorback Window soldered, June has flipped it over and will start (and most likely finish) soldering this when she comes back in. I'm still thinking that it will be finished 2 weeks from now because after this gets soldered there will still be channel to be added and touch up work left to go on it.
Judy's Bears Roasting Marshmallows Window has its border attached which means that this is set to be soldered. Judy has no problems soldering so perhaps this will be completed when she returns? Only time will tell.
Martha's now got five feathers all cut out and waiting to be ground. Rather than making each feather out of one color she's picked two different shades of the same color and mixed them up throughout the feather. And even better yet, she changed the pattern of the mixed up pieces between all of the feathers. It sounds simple but too many students lack the nerve to change what they've already seen done and just follow suit. Martha is blazing her own trails!.
Lastly we look at the progress that Cindy made on her Birds On A Wire project. The majority of these birds are cut out and if you look closely you'll see that she DID change the bright green wing on the far right side bird. I always say that if you are unsure about changing a piece of glass then you really should because there's likely good reason you've considered changing it. It's not second guessing yourself- it's about never settling for less!
Stay warm!
Paul
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