MiMi's LSU Tiger is a work of art featuring a uniquely perfect color scheme that runs over three feet in length. It all comes together perfectly due to her precision cutting and I know that the person that this will be gifted to will truly be moved.
Lorrie's Sunflower Window took no time at all for her to make but her work was not rushed at all. A perfect mix of colors insure that this will easily turn heads whenever anyone sees it.
Ann's Borromean Rings Window was easily completed but it's very hard (next to impossible actually) to show you how the rings actually float above the circular background. When lying 'flat' on a table this window actually stands one inch high because the interconnected rings have are not cut into the background but rather have been attached above it using six three quarter inch posts. Alas, the only way to truly appreciate this is to see it in person.
Patrice smoothed out her soldering and then colored her window thus making this her second Umbrella Lady that she's made over the years with us. This one has a different color scheme than her first and since I'm partial to deep blue I'm flat out saying that this one is my favorite of the two.
Cindy's Cardinal/Cross is an original design which looks great. She didn't try to make things easier for herself by cutting straight lines from the diamond points on the edge of the cross. Instead, Cindy chose to grind the pieces into position.
Let's latest Heart is another suncatcher and another win for her. You just can't lose when you mix hues of the same color through out a subject matter (in this case the Sunflower petals) rather than going for just one static color. Add to that the unique color forming the heart itself and you have another gorgeous large suncatcher.
Patrice doesn't sit still for long. She also managed to complete another Modern Cross and a Turtle Suncatcher done in assorted oranges rather than standard greens. The end result is stunning to say the least.
Annette is someone else who always walks in the door with a suncatcher or two under her belt which she made at home during the week. Here are two Dove Crosses in two different sizes.
Somehow I forgot to post this last week but this week we can see that Kerry has finished the cutting process for his Swedish Chef Window. All I can say is, "Bork, bork, bork!"
Lorrie is only one week into her Acadian Flag Window and she has it almost completely cut it out already! She still has to cut out three small Fleur De Lis' that will reside in the upper blue portion of the window but the easiest way to handle that is to cut, grind and tack together the FDLs and then trace them on top of the blue background piece. That glass will then be cut for a nearly perfect fit.
Susan has started an Owl Suncatcher and wants to make it circular. To achieve that and to be as close to perfection as possible she's going to grind everything so that it fits within this wooden ring. It's almost like having a square for circles!
An opened heart? Check! A flower or scenery in the center? Check! Uniformity across the board? Check! Who could be making this, Let? Check! She's certainly got a signature style and this fits it perfectly. Rest assured that it will be completed before you know it.
Although the pattern shows these two Chefs spaced apart from one another Susan R is going to cut them out and then grind and tack them together so that she can change their spacing within the background glass so that she can also fit a border along both sides of it. In the end it will be everything that she had hoped that it would be.
Cindy has super hero fever and this week she managed to completely cut out this Batman Suncatcher . That's going to be Spiderman on the right and even though they come from competing comic book companies these two are going to exist peacefully along side one another in all of their stained glass glory.
There are only 10 pieces of glass left for Bee to cut and then her Front Door Insert will be ready to be soldered. These last few pieces wrap around the complex corner accents so they won't go as quickly as standard border pieces, but they won't take all that long either. I can't wait to see how far she gets when she comes back in.
With all of the grinding completed on her Sewing Machine Window Melissa is just about ready to start foiling. There are still two accent colors that reside on either side of the heart on the base of the machine that Melissa hasn't cut yet but I believe she said that she had a color in mind which she had left at home.
There are only a few scant pieces left to go on Annette's New Orleans Window and those are only the four small sections of the steeple of the church in the distance. Nettie's work on this has been outstanding and this week you can clearly see that she's achieved what she originally aimed for.
This pair of Cowboys that Judy is making is ready for foil but I may suggest an idea that's stuck in my head that will take less than five minutes to accomplish. That's all that I'm going to say because I love to leave people hanging like that!
This guy is certainly looking menacing now that his face is together. All the detail of this window is in Darth Vader's mask which means that the bottom is going to grind far more easily and quickly than the rest of this has. June never complained at all while making this even thought it was daunting to her at first.
Martha's Birdhouse with Roses Window is officially all cut and ground! I remember when it would have taken Martha weeks to grind all of those flower petals but now days she just heads straight to the grinder and three hours later has everything fitting together perfectly. The rest of this should be a piece of cake for her.
I hate when class ends and someone has only a very little amount of work to go before finishing their window. That's exactly what happened to Linda L this week. When she returns we're going to look for any flaws in her soldering and then wash this and call it a window!
Patrice also tacked together her round Lady In a Bathtub Window and will get to work on a nice elaborate border system for it before you know it!
After adding an extra layer of yellow glass along the top and the bottom of her LSU letters Barbara was then able to use the same purple glass for the border. The extra yellow strips prevent the border from bleeding into the letters and allows the viewer to more easily discern them in the finished window.
Betty cut out the background glass for her Tulip Window which fits together perfectly because she cut it from one piece of glass without using pattern pieces. Everything lines up perfectly and really only needs to be ground where the tulips and the leaves touch the background. Betty also ground a new Sunflower Heart of her own and has begun to foil all the pieces for that as well.
Lastly, Sheri has a Buddha Yoga inspired window in the works and this is the pattern. She'll be cutting glass for it next week and that's when we will begin to see this come to life.
And there you have it. Come back next week when we hope to see you again!
Paul
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