Kerry's closed the book on his Cabin in the Bayou Window and now that it has some light behind it you can truly appreciate all of the time and effort he's put into it. It may be a big window but there's a lot of detail packed into it which means that Kerry was dealing with some tiny pieces of glass. As always, all of that time and effort shines right on through though.
Shelley completed her Leaf in a Hoop and I must say that the hoop really transformed this from an average suncatcher to one that really grabs your attention. There may only be a few pieces in this pattern but Shelley's work was exemplary on it
Melissa's finished four of her Beach Themed Suncatchers and what a beautiful set they already are. During class we asked each other what their favorite one was and the Turtle won hands down. Still, everyone said that the choice was a hard one to make because the other three are just as beautiful.
Linda L's first Candy Corn Panel is one of the cheeriest things that I've seen in a long time. If you want to talk about perfect color selections you HAVE to mention this because Linda's choices are spot on and the pattern already hits a sweet spot even without any color!
Cindy's Unicorn Suncatcher was completed this week and it's a winner. Do you know why Unicorns never horse around? Because they get right to the point.
Helen's newest Cross was made from bevels. Sometimes less is more and when it comes to bevels that's always the case. Never try to overwhelm a bevel cluster or your window will become underwhelming!
Angie's Ornamental Cross is the latest of a new 'fad' going around in the shop. We will be seeing a lot of these as the weeks go by and Angie's choice of colors along with her craftsmanship only help to 'sell' this pattern even more than it normally would by itself.
Martha loved the double bevel border of a Fleur De Lis Window that she saw online and has added it to a different Fleur De Lis thus making up her own pattern. She wasn't sure of what glass to use for the background surrounding the circle that the FDL resides in but when she saw Corteza (or 'alligator glass' as we sometimes refer to it) she know what she wanted to use.
Roxane got a lot of work done on her Address Window starting with the background glass that she spent the beginning of her class cutting out. After that was finished she moved on over to the grinder and began fitting everything together as perfectly as possible. It's not even halfway ground and it already looks spectacular.
Betty's Irises and Humming Bird Window is all cut out and she's moved on over to the grinder to get all of her ducks in a row. This is a complex pattern but Betty has flown through the cutting process and when this is completed it's really going to be impressive. It already is!
MiMi's Owl and Unicorn Suncatchers have been meticulously ground and are very close to being soldered. The Owl is completely wrapped and the Unicorn only has a few pieces to go before its wrapped as well so these will soon be leaving the work table for good!
Lisa's Cardinals Window is officially all cut out and more than halfway ground. Even though she cut down on the number of pieces in this version of her pattern there are still lot of tiny and thin pieces which take more time to grind and wrap. But with more than half of this ground already I have to say that Lisa has made the most of her class time
Bee's Hibiscus got it's first border cut and ground and what a perfect choice of colors that turned out to be. Greens with hints of reds drifting into it made this the unmistakable winner. There's only one border left to go on this and then Bee can begin soldering.
Steve is slowly but surely getting his stained glass pieces soldered to the large copper frame that he's already put together. He was able to use a blowtorch to solder the metal to metal sections but that isn't possible to do when adding glass the the frame work. Instead, Steve is using a hot iron and a lot of time and patience.
Cheryl is now soldering her Winged Cross Suncatcher which, as you can see, she's cut from one piece of glass. What isn't readily apparent is the fact that this glass is iridized which means that it throws off of unique range of colors when it is in sunlight. This will surely be finished when she comes back into class next week.
Linda F worked on her own version of the Ornamental Cross which oddly enough resembles Angie's not only in design but in color as well. It wasn't planned that way- it just happened!
Susan R is foiling her last Reindeer which means that this will fly out the door when she comes back in. We're still going to re-cut a piece of the face but we will do that after this has been tacked together to ensure a perfect fit on the very first cut.
Ann's Angel is all cut out and she's now working on foiling all of those tiny pieces. She said that she didn't plan on the wing tips to be pink but that's just the way it worked out all on its own. How serendipitous!
Helen's LSU Window would have been completed but we found a break in one of the pieces of purple and she didn't have the glass with her for us to repair it. So she finished it off as best as she could and will be bringing in a replacement piece of glass next week. It's a simple repair so expect to see this among our completed projects in our next post.
Cindy's Alligator is possibly being foiled even as you read this. It was been a hectic week for her so she wasn't able to work on her window over the past week but I know that we'll get some background glass cut when she comes back in especially since she saw and fell in love with the Corteza glass that Martha used.
Lastly we have Sheri who got a lot of the letters ground for her Business Card Window. In fact, she got a surprising amount of of letters fitting together nicely in a short span of time.
And there ya have it!
Paul
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