Lara's latest Flower Hexalong Panel is a delightful pattern highlighted by her wonderful color choices. The leaves were cut from iridized teal which matches the teal topmost flower. The two remaining flowers are burgundy and yellow and all three of these colors can be found in the stunning glass that Lara picked for her top and bottom borders. Beautiful indeed.
Lisa's Honey Bee and Honey Comb Suncatcher features a wire work antenna that she did by herself. Lisa is not one to be afraid to try something completely on her own basically because she's not easily intimidated and also because she always succeeds. She challenges herself and then makes it all look easy.
Linda L made a slightly larger Beveled USA than the last one we saw. Both were based around a stock Star bevel but Linda put hooks on hers so that it can be hung in a window rather than used as a lawn ornament.
Helen has another pair of crosses under her belt, one large and one small. Both feature bevels but the large one has a total of five bevels in it altogether. Since the smaller one isn't as 'beveled' as the other cross Helen made the smaller one using iridized glass which sparkles wonderfully.
Susan D finished three Tulip Lawn Ornaments and a pair of tulip Angels complete with wire work halos. Everything looks uniformly perfect which is to say that Susan can do no wrong!
With everything all mapped out Steve has begun attaching his flowers to his Copper Frame. His vines are made from smaller copper tubing that he literally blow torched into position. The bottom Sunflower was carefully soldered in place using a standard 100 watt soldering iron. Copper will quickly suck the heat out of any soldering iron so it was slow going but in the end the flower was properly adhered into place. More flowers will be added when he comes back in.
Linda L started a Candy Corn Panel for one of her frames and she's already just a few scant pieces away from grinding it! This is obviously another quick project for her.
Ann's Angel is really coming together now that she's grinding all of her pieces. She only needs to decide on glass for the halo and then she'll be ready to foil all of the tiny pieces of glass that make this wonderful angel.
Sheri has begun grinding all of the tiny black pieces that make up the lettering of her sign window. She's going to fit the background to the text and to do that she'll grind all of the text and then tack it together BEFORE she grinds her background. The text itself makes up the most important shapes of the window and should therefor be fitted together before anything else.
Cheryl is back and she's already well on her way to a finished a Fleur De Lis Window that she began this week. All she needs next is a border and that will easily be attached upon her return.
Melissa finished wrapping her Beach Themed Suncatchers and then foiled them as well. She's moving quickly and efficiently through these and I just know that we'll see a number of them completed upon her return.
Cindy has but one leaf left to cut out and then she'll move along to tacking it together. From there she'll cut out her background which should go VERY quickly and easily judging by the size and shapes of the pieces.
With her background all cut out out Martha is ready to move onto the soldering phase of her Oval Humming Bird and Iris Window. Her colors are impeccable and I'm pretty sure that this is going to be completed before you can say "If fat geese were selling for 10 cents a pound, I couldn’t buy a hummingbird."
Lisa's begun making a Spider Web Corner decoration and got all 20 pieces cut out and ground in just one class. This project is moving quickly and she's already got her next idea drawn up and ready to begin so keep your eyes peeled because you may very well see this completed and her next project started when we come back next week.
Let has her eight inch Cardinal Window all ground and I have a strong, sneaking suspicion that she may very well come back in with all of the pieces wrapped. It's hard to say what this will look like when we see it next but I know that I'm on pins and needles!
Judy's Vegetable Window is all cut out (save for the background) and ready to be ground. If you look closely you'll see pins here and there thorough her window which is a clear giveaway that the grinding process has already begun. It won't be long now!
It looks like everything is wrapped and that means that June is ready to tack her sailboat scene together and then pick out a border to surround it with. What a nice tranquil looking window.
Bee took a poll in class and we all agreed that tacking this together would make working on it a lot easier from here on out. When you get right down to it that's the way we always do windows-- We tack the center subject matter together and then add the borders to it one at a time. Although this happens to have an elaborate border system we're still going to handle it the same way we always would -row by row.
There's the red nose I've been anxiously waiting to see! And no, Rudolph is not missing a leg, his leg was just being wrapped in copper foil by Susan R who will be finishing off her reindeer collection in about two more weeks when this is completed.
Every single piece of glass has been cut, ground and attached to Kerry's Cabin in the Bayou Window and just wait until you see that final border with some light behind it. It contains almost every shade and hue of color that has already been used in the window which makes it a perfect fit!
Remember to come back next week-- don't be a stranger!
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
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