Let's Christmas Bells Window is stunning with a color scheme that you don't usually see in a Christmas window. It's all about pastels rather than vibrant colors and the end result is amazing. She's used the lead covered glass technique for the bell clappers and a double line of trim on each of the bells. Let's decorative soldering on those pieces were the final accents that make this window stand out so much.
Jeannette said she saw a White Pumpkin on the internet and decided that she wanted to make one. We took the standard Spectrum Pattern, removed the leaves (because Jeannette had an idea in her head) and then she cut the pumpkin out of an off white glass. When it was done she hung two wooden leaves from around the stem of the pumpkin sort of like a scarf. It's uniquely different and wonderful at the same time.
Betty made these two delightful Cat Suncatchers but she had to make a bit of a change to her original design because of two hinge points that caused the cats to be somewhat flimsy. To fix that she added a piece of clear glass between the tail and the body which solidified thing nicely. In the future she's going to redraw the tail so that it touches the cat's face thus eliminating the hinge points and negating the need to add clear glass into the mix.
Kandise is our newest student and her Butterfly was made almost effortlessly. She's already got a firm grasp on all of the steps required to make stained glass windows and I can't wait to see whet she decides to work on for her first window.
Martha's Franklin Street Lamp is all cut and ground and the good news is that she already has a second one cut out just waiting to be ground. I think she can knock these out in her sleep of she wants!
Angie's Seagull has taken shape and now that her glass has been cut she's ready to begin grinding. Since this started off life as a large suncatcher there isn't a background drawn for it (yet). The easiest thing to do here is to assemble what she has cut and then place it on top of her background glass and trace around it.
Steve began work on this Santa Face Bookend and by the end of the class he had traced the pattern, cut all the glass and then ground it as well. That's a quick pace and as you can see his pieces fit together perfectly.
Susan D has her two newest Geometrical Suncatchers picked out and cut out. Two at a time is the perfect way for her to work her way through the pattern book that she got these from. Luckily these aren't as 'involved' as one of the last ones that she made so the grinding on these should go quicker and easier.
Lorrie has her Wedding Box well under control now. With the lid completed she got the four sides of the actual box cut to size and then skimmed them and foiled them. When she returns it won't take long at all for this to go together which means that she'll be starting something new next week.
Betty has another pair of Teardrop Suncatchers almost completed. With the front sides soldered she only needs to finish things on the back side to wrap these two up.
Lisa's Sugar Skull is moving along in the fastest way possible. Everything has been cut save for the teeth which she will tackle upon her return next week. We could have cut them during class but we don't want them to get mixed up at all so it's best to tackle it all in one class so we can start them and finish them before Lisa leaves.
Kerry's Swedish Chef is a Muppet made of glass. Everything has been cut save for the border which he picked out before calling it a night. The border itself will take no time at all to add so this will easily be getting some solder on it when he returns.
Susan R spent her time at the grinder grinding out the openings in her Peacock's tail feathers that will surround the intricate three piece accents. Susan has always wanted to make this and she's not going to hold back at all on the amount of work that it will take to make this look like the stellar piece that she wants it to be.
After completing her Christmas Bells Let moved on over to a large circular Poinsettia Suncatcher. She's not only using glass blobs for the flower center, she's also using a christmas fractures and streamer glass for the background that you can't see here but you'll be able to when it's hanging up.
Judy's Deer Head Window is almost halfway ground now as she spent some quality time over at a grinder. Whether Judy likes to admit it or not, she's quite good at this entire glass business as the evidence below proves.
June liked Judy's background so much that she used a similar glass the same way for her Donkey Window. She got everything cut out this week and will be ready to hit the grinder upon her return.
Mary Grace's Mardi Gras Mask is coming together as the mask itself has now been completely cut out. There are only a few edge pieces to cut for her background glass and I know they won't take long for her to knock out. She'll be grinding this before you know it.
Linda F's got a small Birds On A Branch project going on and she's very near the end already. She simply took the large pattern with eight birds and selected three in a row that she liked while ignoring the rest of them. She had to complete some lines where the two end birds over and under-lapped their 'neighbors' but as you can see that was very easily done.
With each passing week Bee gets further and further along on her Cantina Window. With the lion's share of the work done on this perhaps it's time to tack together what she has to avoid any problems with either slippage or pieces getting mixed up.
MiMi was so close to finishing her Mallard Suncatcher that she'll be starting a new project in her next class. There's just a hook or two to attach to this and then MiMi will wash hit, color it, wash it again and then apply a light coating of wax to shine it all up.
Zoe managed to get out the door with her Longhorn Skull after touching up some of the grinding that she accomplished last week. She worried about her lines not being straight but that's the way the pattern was drawn because in real life the lines that are formed in skeletons are always irregular. I was so busy with our newest student that I somehow managed to skip getting a picture of Zoe's work.
Lastly, Melissa worked on three Cross Suncatchers and got them all cut and possibly even ground but I forgot to snap a picture of them as well. Shoot me! That means that Melissa will be showing a LOT of progress on her Crosses when she comes in again and I DO remember to take a picture!
And that's all that happened in our neck of the woods this past week.
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
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