Betty's Lilies Window is downright stunning and demonstrates how mixing different glasses of the same color can really bring a window to life. In this case Betty used two different greens as well as two different whites to provide subtle shading throughout the flowers and leaves. The icing on this beautiful window is her use of wire work to make stamens for the flowers.
Lorrie has been very busy this week as you will see. Her Sun and Moon Window looks fantastic and she's learning so much with each and every window that she finishes. Looking at this it's hard to believe that she's actually one of our new students!
Lorrie also completed her Chicken Logo Window that was made for a friend of hers. With all of those pieces her friend should be very impressed, especially since it matches the logo perfectly. Let us call this another job well done.
Betty finished her Poppies Teardrop Suncatcher which looks as wonderful as her previous teardrop designs. She really likes the teardrop designs and she spent some of her class time redesigning the sunflower teardrop pattern that she had completed last week. There's almost always something that you wish you'd done differently after making a pattern for the first time and fixing it instead of remaking it the same way is the sign of someone who cares about their work.
I'll bet you thought we were done looking at Lorrie's completed projects but no, there's one more. Her large Fairy Suncatcher was something that she wanted to do because she wanted to get some smaller items under her belt so that she could practice her tap-tap method around the edges. I have to say that she did a wonderful job all around on this, no pun intended!
Last week I showed you Steve's Southern Belle Window but the individual panels had actually only been laid out on the table after which I Photoshopped them into a Window Frame to show you what it would look like. This week Steve worked on mounting each piece into the actual Window and when it was finished I was able to take this picture of the actual completed piece with some light behind it. As you can see, the back lighting makes a BIG difference which is why I'm posting this again.
I was fortunate enough to gain a Great Niece three months ago and since we were going to see her during the holiday week I made this three dimensional Rocking Horse as a gift to decorate her room. These rocking horse patterns have been around since the 70's but I always thought they were a bit clunky looking and very simplistic. I wanted more for Emma so I put my pencil to paper and came up with this pattern. If I'm perfectly honest, I think it turned out much better than I expected even though the mane had me do a slight redesign after I had everything cut out.
MiMi wrapped up the foiling of her Birds On A Branch Suncatcher and will tack this together and solder it when she returns. It already looks stunning and MiMi made the entire process look easy. I'm surprised that we haven't seen more of these made but perhaps after this is completed someone else will want a go at it.
Ann is back and she cut out all of the pieces to make a Geometrical Torus Suncatcher. She also cut out all of one of the colors for a second Torus so that she will have a head start on a second one when she gets around to making it. I have to say that she's flying through this pattern!
Let began this Large Heart with Beveled Stars Suncatcher begun and it's already been ground. All this needs is some foil and a good soldering to finish it off.
As I'd suspected, Melissa finished grinding the handful of pieces that she didn't get to last week and then began wrapping everything in copper foil. She's got a border glass all picked out for this window and she's going to need to think about what she plans on making next because this will be finished soon.
Martha's Peacock Window has its background cut and attached and then she went to work on the double border. Since the inner border is made of bevels she already had them wrapped and tacked together. That left just the final blue/green border left to cut and as you can see she was able to cut the strips and then break them down into their individual pieces.
Lisa completed all of the cutting and grinding on Bubbles The Duck which means that this could be finished by the next time we see it. I know that Bubbles still needs to be foiled but Lisa has already started that so there isn't all that much left to go.
Lara got her Three Tulip Panel cut, ground, wrapped and then tacked together. Once that was done she picked out a perfect color for her border glass and then got that cut, ground and foiled. There's only some soldering left to go on this and I'm thinking that may well happen when we see Lara again.
With her inner clear reeded border cut, ground, wrapped and attached to her Carousel Horse Window Linda F next picked out the glass for her final border. The blue baroque that she chose is perfect-- it's bright enough to stand out against all of the other colors in this window without clashing or overpowering the horse or carousel itself.
Susan D finished the arduous task of wrapping all of her glass globs and then she arranged them according to color to create a random appearance. Look closely and you can see a blue bird which will have some wire work applied to it to give it a wing. Susan is officially ready to cut her tree trunk and the green grass that surrounds it after she gets the glass globs attached to the hoop. This will be completed before you know it.
Susan R has almost all of her BBQ Gnome cut with only the shirt and pants left to go. She also has all of the pieces that she's already cut out ground so there's a lot more completed on this then you might first believe. I'll take a cheeseburger, please.
Let's Heron Window is nearing completion and I have no doubt that it WILL be complete6d when you see it again. She got the border and the channel attached to it this week and since the front is already soldered that only leaves the back side left to go.
Barbara has most of her Multi Colored Owl ground and will soon cut up and separate the pieces that make up iris of the Owl's eyes. This is the easiest way to handle small same-colored pieces-- cut and grind a larger piece so that fits into place and then cut it into its individual pieces so that all you have to do is lightly skim the fresh cuts and achieve a perfect fit.
Cheryl was hard at work on her Harley-Davidson Window and has her center letters cut and ready to be ground. This week she worked out all of her background pieces and traced them onto black glass which she will begin cutting when she returns. She'll be making this window in three distinct sections and tacking each one as she progresses to prevent things from growing and to prevent anything from sliding out of position.
June got her border attached to Mr. Vader and then set upon soldering him. The front side is almost complete and that means that she'll flip this around to do the back side sometime during her next class. The end is near for Darth Vader, that's for sure!
Judy has all of her Scottish Thistle ground and wrapped so she'll be ready to tack this together as soon as she comes back in. Once that's done she'll pick a color for the thin border that surrounds it and which will make hanging this much easier.
Cindy's Cinderella Window got all of its sky cut and ground so she's ready to begin foiling all of those pieces and then concentrate on what she wants to do for a border to surround this. One or two borders? We'll learn the answer to that when she comes back in next week.
And to wrap things up here, Bee resumed work on designing the pattern for her Ed's Cantina Window and she's very close to being happy with it. She also picked out a font for the lettering that with go in the banner that runs across the top of the window and all I can say is that computers sure help a lot in that aspect of the design process.
Well, the 4th of July threw off our schedule but now that this has been posted we'll be right on tome again late Monday. See you then!
Paul
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