Susan D's Texas Longhorn is something that we've never seen before. It started life as a 'hollow' 3D Wrought Iron wall hanging with wooden horns that sort of blended into the wall since it was open in the center. Susan perfectly copied the design measurements and then cut a tan/amber glass to follow the lines that the wrought iron formed. After soldering it together she mounted it behind the skull frame and now you can clearly see her wall decoration. Susan executed this perfectly.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret here: This gorgeous Rooster than Let finished was actually part of a larger design that she cropped down to size. She eliminated a lot of background that extended the scene much farther to the right that didn't add anything to the Rooster itself. By cutting down the elongated landscape Let has made the Rooster the sole focal point of the window. What a great job and a great eye!
Up next we look at the largest circular section of Linda L's three piece Mickey Mouse Pool Decoration. She's going to send me a picture of the finished project when each of the three pieces are mounted into the LARGE wrought iron frame that will sit pool side in her back yard. I think the end effect is going to look wonderful and I can't wait to see it myself.
Annette was looking for some sort of a nursing pattern when she stumbled across this Stethoscope in our pattern drawers. She liked it but she previously had in mind a Caduceus. I told her that I could draw one up for her but rather than sitting around and wasting time while waiting for the pattern to be drawn she decided to begin this as well. Now her Stethoscope has been completed she'll move on over to the Caduceus next.
Here we see that Mary Grace finished the first of her three Initialed Volley Balls. Later on in this post you'll discover that she's well on her way to completing her third sports ball also. I guess you can say that she's on a roll here!
Next we look at Cindy's version of the Fancy Fleur De Lis. It's amazing how many different color variations you can come up with on this considering that each of the previous versions were made with the same green, gold and purple color combination. Stunning indeed.
Betty completed four more Petal Crosses although only two of them showed up on my camera. The other two are identical save for the color scheme and I have no clue why the pictures of them came out to be such a blurry mess. But this pair looks great, don't you agree?
Lorrie has been very busy while at home working on her Underwater Scene. The last time we saw this she had all of the fish cut, ground, and tacked together but that was it. No that her water has been cut and tacked into position she brought her window in and got a border cut and ground for it. She's taken those pieces home with her to foil so that it can be tacked onto her window next week after which she will flip it on over so she can solder the back side.
Susan D is working on a 3D Flower Basket but with a slight twist. Instead of making the basket out of one half circular piece she's cut it into numerous sections so that it resembles a woven pattern. She got everything cut out for this in just one class and is now ready to begin grinding.
Melissa has three of her birds cut out and is going to grind them and tack them together so that they don't shift all over while she's working on the leaves, branches, and background glass. In class this week she even managed to get one of the birds ground. I love her color choices and can't wait to see this completed.
Judy has begun a Humming Bird Window and already has the leaves and the flowers cut out. It's almost as if someone said, "Go" and she went off and running! But then again, it never takes Judy long to finish a window.
With the leaves cut for her Duck Window, Zoe is just about ready to tack this together so that she can cut her background sky glass from one fitted piece so that the grain of the glass flows perfectly across the sky. It's little things like that which really make a window stand out and you should be able to see what that looks like in our next post.
Sheri's pieces are coming together and the center of this Koi Fish Window is starting to form as she makes big advances while working at the grinder. There's not all that many pieces left to go on this and soon Sheri will have to think about what she's going to do for a border or possibly even a pair of borders.
Betty has more Crosses under way and has learned that hinge points don't have to travel left-to-right or top-to-bottom-- they can appear on a diagonal as well. To combat that problem Betty has added a glass glob in the center of the crosses that she has on the right side of her work board. Those small circular pieces prevent the hinge points from occurring as well as adding a bit of flair to each cross
Cheryl is quickly approaching the border stage of her Harley Davidson Window as the work on her lettering is nearing its end. I suspect that she'll be cutting borders for this the next time you see it.
With her second Monogrammed Sports ball finished Mary Grace has moved on over to a second version of the volleyball. With the ball, cut ground, wrapped and it's front side soldered she'll surely begin work on the new initial when she comes back in. Alas, you'll have to come back next week to see just what that initial will be.
With all of her main soldering completed on her Circular Cross Window Ann is so very close to finishing this off. In fact, the second side of this HAS been soldered and all she needs to do now are some minor touch ups and then this will be finished before you can say, 'next week'!
For some reason the 'pattern' like the one MiMi is working on is called a 'cartoon'. I only know that because the Worden Lamp instructions refer to them as such but I digress. MiMi is slowly but surely filling in all of the small, myriad pieces of her cartoon with glass. Once all of those pieces are covered MiMi will have the first third of her lamp ground.
June is wrapping away at her Elephant of Many Colors and not only is her grinding amazing, so is her foiling skills as well. She may say that she's going slowly but every piece of foil is perfectly aligned to each piece and that means her soldering will look even better than ever because the foil control how the solder lines look.
And to end thing up here we see that Martha's Fancy Fleur De Lis is all soldered and just awaiting touch ups and some hooks to finish it off. I can guarantee that this will be among out completed pieces in our next post!
Just remember that although you may have reached the end here, Rock and Roll lives on!
Paul
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