Let finished her Daisies Window and we pretty much all agree that it brings back memories of the 70's. We even had a playlist of 70's songs to further heighten the nostalgia. Let did another great job on this (as expected) and cut and attached her own channel as well.
Linda F's Teardrop Beach Scene is not unlike a droplet of peacefulness. Its pastel colors are anchored by a earthy brown shell which creates the rounded bottom of the teardrop. She supposes that she could have done a little better following the edge lines but I think this is perfection as is.
Lorrie is making Address Windows and already has the first two cut and ground. She has about seven of these to make before Christmas and once she each one ground and foiled she then moves along to a new set of numbers so that she can add borders all at once.
Susan D has her circular Bear all cut out but has moved on over to this Eagle Suncatcher which is an order. Orders always come first and since she's got feathers on her brain she also managed to get another bird cut out as well. She'll soon be working at the grinder to get all of those feather fitting together but judging by the looks of things she isn't going to have to do much more than a skimming on each piece because it because so farthings are already fitting together nicely
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Jan spent the day cutting glass and picking out colors for her Sunburst Window. She had brought a lot of her scrap glass in with her but didn't count on the pattern pieces being so large. Still, so far she's been able to use glass that she had scraps of and what she found in our scrap glass box.
Cindy's Cardinal/Cross is truly in form now that it's all been cut and especially ground. She's going to begin wrapping her pieces in copper foil which means that we'll most likely see all of this foiled when we see it again. A new project is not that far away now.
Let also worked on these Christmas Candy Canes that now only need to be soldered on their back sides. Let was the first and only person (thus far) to say that she was finished with Christmas projects for the year but when she saw Jeannette's Candy Cane last week she decided that she just had to make an exception or two. Never say never!
Susan R has all of her Peacock Feathers cut and ground and is ready to begin foiling all of those pieces. Slow and steady wins the race but in all honesty Susan isn't really going all that slowly when you consider the size and number of the pieces that she is working with.. That said, she's still winning the race.
Kandise came in and immediately began tacking her Art Deco Lady together and then picked out a border for her. It only took 3 minutes to cut the border pieces and then she was able to skim them on the grinder after which she foiled them. All of that work took just over an hour to do which left Kandise plenty of time to begin soldering. Since this is her first 'real' window there was a learning curve involved in the soldering but for a first timer she's doing beyond wonderful. In fact, this may even be completed when she come back in!
Melissa worked on grinding, wrapping and soldering the wheels for her Kaleidoscope. By the time class ended she had everything soldered save for the bushing/hub centers which attach to the wheel centers andl allow them to rotate. There are two wheels on the Kaleidoscope: one made of all different textured clear glasses, and the second made of different opaque colors. The clear wheel goes between the mirrors and the color wheel so that the color is revealed through different textures as each wheel is spun independently. If you made two color wheels you would never see the colors of the outermost wheel in the mirrors.
Mary Grace finished grinding all of the colored pieces that she has cut out for her Mardi Gras Mask and is wrapping them now. Once they are foiled she will tack everything together which will prevent anything from shifting while she cuts and grinds all of the tiny pieces that surround the mask and makes up the background.
Martha now has all of the background glass ground for her latest Franklin Streetlight Window and has even begun wrapping it. I'm betting that she will go with the same border effect that she did on her last Streetlamp Window-- a clear inner border and then back to the background for the final outer border. We'll know for sure when she returns next week.
Betty tacked together her Heron Window and found that the cat tail was cut just a bit too short for her approval which explains the opening in the window. She'll re-cut that and fill it in while at home. Her original plan was to use an orange glass that would match the legs for the thin inner border but everyone agreed that the orange was SO bright that it was all you saw when you looked at the window. Instead Betty went with a clear textured inner border and then went with a gray to match the feathers of the bird for the outer border. And we all agreed that a final gray border was the best possible choice.
Barbara continued grinding her Magnolia Window and spend some time going through catalogs hoping to find the wooden Bookends that I saw a few weeks back and never marked down. It may have taken a while but in the end she won the battle and found what she was looking for. Now the colorful Owl that she made a few weeks back can be displayed correctly (or at least it will when the bookends arrive).
Lara is working on a Stack of Books Suncatcher which is actually quite large. The colorful flowers and leaves that are strategically placed throughout the pattern are what hold everything together by breaking up straight lead lines which would form hinge-points . Lara actually has glass cut out for all of the book covers but she bagged everything before I took the picture. She's also cutting out two of these at once with the only difference being the color scheme.
Sheri has begun working on her Koi Fish pattern and has all of her poster board pattern pieces cut out and separated so that she can begin cutting glass when she returns. Everything is numbered and ready to go!
To wrap things up here we see that Bee spent her night designing her next window which features Dandelions set amidst a background of a dove, a sun with a cross inserted into it which in turn has a rose inserted into the center of the cross. Now that's what I call a lot of subject matter!
And there you have it!
Paul
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