Bee has completed her Dragonfly window and we are lucky enough to get two views of it. The first was taken here in class while the second shows it installed as the back board for her stove. Not only is her work amazing but the placement of her window (which she's back lit) is as stunning as possible!
All hung up and ready to view!
Susan D finished her Spider Plant which she's made to hold a small air plant which certainly gives this finished piece a healthy dose of realism! I think it's a WONDERFUL idea and wish that I'd thought of it myself!
Barbara's completed her Mardi Gras Colored Fleur De Lis and it's her choice of colors as well as her positioning of them that make this so festive looking.
Nettie's began to make the first of two wedding boxes and she's got the lid of the first one all ready for soldering. There's a great chance that this one will be completed upon her return next week!
Julie resumed wok on her Heron Window and now has the lower third of it all cut out. To keep things stable she's going to switch over to the grinder next week and start fitting things into place. Once that's done she'll be able to foil and then tack these pieces to prevent them from shifting out of position.
Linda F 's Transom Window has really taken shape this week as she got all of the pink flowers cut out. She's just realized that she missing cutting a piece of the winding stem near the right side of the window. That's easy to do in something large because the odds of missing a line while tracing out a pattern get higher since there are more lines to trace. I'll bet anything that the stem was never cut loose from the background glass. No matter though because it's simple enough to rectify.
Lorrie is flying through her Humming Birds and Flowers Window. She only has two more Humming Birds too go before she can begin cutting out her glue chip background glass. The beautiful thing about using glue chip is that there isn't any need to worry about the grain of the glass since it's omni-directional. That means that waste will be kept to a bare minimum.
MiMi is soldering away and there was absolutely no learning curve for her ability to solder on a curved lamp. She just sat down with a towel in her lap and the Lamp on the towel and set forth making a beautiful bead. Lamp soldering requires an understanding of just how lead melts so that a nice smooth bead can be formed without having the lead run through and fall out to the inside of the lamp. MiMi made incredible progress on her very first night and got so far that I couldn't help but be impressed.
Jan has only 4 more pieces of glass left to cut for her Virgin Mary. She's decided to leave this as a large suncatcher rather than a window with background glass and a border. Kudos to Jan for really nailing this piece when it came down to the cutting and grinding her glass. She just muscled through it and has achieved what I can already tell will be an awesome piece of inspirational art.
Betty has a board full of suncatchers that she's working on with many of then almost across the finish line. Betty thinks like me when it comes to making suncatchers: cut everything, grind everything, foil everything and then solder them. It's far more productive than bouncing around from grinding to cutting to soldering, to cutting, to grinding, to cutting etc. etc.
Mary may very well have all of her Sunflowers tacked together already. I mean, I could be wrong but it looks like the flowers are all cut ground wrapped and tacked! Next up will be the leaves because she worked on stems while she was in class.
Tracey's Butterfly has one wing complete and the second one is well under way towards being completely ground. Tracey's daughter has picked out the next window that Tracey will be making and it's another Circular Magnolia. She's going to be able to make those in her sleep
Now that Kandise has her border cut, ground and foiled She'll be ready to begin soldering her Sunset Window next week. She's actually already begun and since she makes quick work of that step of the stained glass process I'm expecting to see this as a completed project in our next post.
Susan D also worked a bit more on foiling her Woodpecker Window. She's amassing quite a collection of these circular windows!
Sheri was a grinding fool and her Scissor Tailed Flycatcher really looks like it's taking flight this week as more and more pieces are fitting into position. She wishes she had thought of surrounding this with bevels but there is a way we can still add a beveled border that I will show her upon her return.
Let is so close to finishing her Lily Window that it's a shame it didn't happen this week. But that only means that the remaining work on this will occur during the first few minutes of her next class thus freeing up most of her time to finish off her next project.
Cheryl filled in the two missing pieces of her Mr. Bingle Window and then set upon soldering the front side. By the time class was finished she had the front completed and I must say that she has done a FABULOUS job! I think she's got the soldering process pretty well under control now. I always say that it's like riding a bike - at some point it just clicks and poof, you have it!
Cindy's Wolf window is now completely soldered and only needs to be washed and colored when she comes back in. I do believe that working with these larger pieces (Cindy is used to working with many smaller pieces) helped her power through this project like a hot knife through butter.
Linda L has made short work of her Mickey and Minnie Window. With all of her background cut and ground (perfectly I might add) she now had her border on the window. She's unsure if she'll be adding a second border or not but we will learn the answer to that when she comes back in.
Susan R has her Cute little Yorkie Dog behind her and is now set to be working on a very whimsical and happy version of some Birds on a Branch. This is a new take on an old standard which I believe may start something new in our classes.
Martha will be working on a wedding box of her own next week and this is one of the idea's that I have for her to look at when she comes back in. the pattern.
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