Bayou Salé GlassWorks: I Like Big Pieces and I Cannot Lie

Annette finished her RN Caduceus Window with time to spare before it becomes a graduation gift this week. She moved along quickly on this but she never moved so fast as to sacrificed precision while making it. We can all agree that he end result speaks for itself!

Let finished her teardrop Sunflower Suncatcher and the extra leaf she added really does add a lot to aesthetically balance out this beautiful piece of art.

Cindy's Crab and Corn Tray was completed and the end result is both fun and functional. Her next tray will feature the same two ears of corn set in front of another crustacean that we will see a little further along in this post.

Cheryl made this Beveled Cross Panel as a quick gift while at home last week and plans on making two or three more which will be similar but with the added feature of a border surrounding it the next time. Simple and elegant, windows like these always turn heads.

This week Martha cut out all of the black glass that makes up the notes to her Music! Window and has begun to grind it all. I often hear people complain about not being able to see the lines that they've traced onto black glass but Martha never said a word. It could be that she knows the secret of positioning the glass so that the glare of the light above it makes the lines VERY visible.

Zoe has begun work on a new project and it is a Luna Moth Panel with a uniquely shaped background. She's got the pieces that make up the moth traced out onto glass and separated which means that she'll cut them into their respective sizes and shapes upon her return.

Let also continued working on her Mardi Gras Mask Panel and all I can say is that it won't be long before this is completed. Let doesn't leave her stained glass tools in her bag between classes so I can't wait to see how far along she is on this when she walks back in the door with it when she returns

Betty is revisiting a window that she made way back in 2015! This is a nice curving geometric pattern that she's moving along on in a speedy manor. There's a great deal of this cut already and I'm thinking that the remainder of the pieces will be cut when we see this again next week.

Ann has her first Corner Chicken Head Suncatcher all ground and let me tell you that a few of those cuts were pretty deep indeed (pay attention to the body of the chicken). But Ann managed and this one is now ready for foil and solder.

Sheri is wrapping all of the pieces that she's so painstakingly ground in her Koi Fish Window. With copper foil now surrounding a lot of her glass her window is starting to really show off its definition.

Paula has a 3D Sunflower Suncatcher to repair and what she believed to be only a few pieces to replace ended up becoming a pretty large handful of pieces after looking closely. Still, it wasn't enough to warrant a complete remake of the suncatcher. That said, Paula did end up disassembling the entire piece to make things easier. This may come back together again when we next see Paula.

Before Lorrie called it a night with us she was able to finish all of the cutting and grinding of her Sugar Elephants Window. It already looks fantastic but once these pieces have copper foil around them it will be far easier to see all of the detail that is currently hidden by the pure white glass background.

This black and white cartoon becomes more and more colorful with each passing week. The colors that we see here already tell me that this is going to be a very beautiful lamp. MiMi's work is definitely not slow but it IS steady and that is what wins a race in the stained glass world!

Melissa got her first flower cut out and ground for her Tiffany Styled Birds Window. If this is any indication of what this window will look like when she's finished with it (and it IS) well then we are in for a real treat here.

Lara's new Stack Of Books are coming together quicker than her first stack and that's always the case when doing a project a second time. You've already figured out all of the ins and outs of the cutting and grinding process and it makes the second iteration go quicker as evident in the picture below..

Judy has all of her glass foiled and has begun to tack together her Humming Bird and Flowers. When she comes back in she'll be able to pick out a background glass, put the flowers and bird on top of it and then trace around them. Then it's a simple matter of separating the pieces and grinding them here and there for a perfect fit.

With the front of her Sun Burst Window soldered and the back side nearly completed I would say that it's time for Jan to begin keeping her eyes opened for an idea of what she may want to do next!

Next up is Cindy's second Louisiana tray which only needs a little more solder before the five pieces are assembled into all of their three dimensional glory! Similar in design to her first tray, this one has the exact same color scheme but features a Crayfish rather than a Crab.

Bee is as busy as a bee working on her Tiger Eye/LSU Window. She's decided to continue her work on this by completing the right side of the Tiger Face so that she can get the hardest part of this multi sectioned large window out of the way.

Cheryl has officially arrived to the soldering portion of the creation of her Harley-Davidson Window now that she's finished cutting, grinding, foiling and attaching the background glass and her transparent black border. The end is near!