Paula's Butterfly Bookends are Beautiful and may actually draw attention away from the books that ultimately reside between them. We've discovered that just resting the wings into the slots of the wooden bookends doesn't provide enough stability for the stained glass so she's going to hot glue them into place to ensure that they don't slip out and become broken.
Lorrie's got the first of her two Macaws completed and at twenty four inches tall this one IS a head turner. Although twenty four inches may not sound *that* large, when you are talking about a suncatcher it's practically immense! Her next one will be a tad bit smaller since the hoop the Macaw will be mounted in will be two inches shorter.
Here's what he looks like in the wild.
Let's Stylized Tulip Panel was completed but just as she was about to color the lead she discovered a crack in one of her border pieces. She knocked the offending piece out so it's ready to be repaired when she comes back in. I still took a picture of it while it was whole just to see if you can spot the crack. I'm doubting that you will because I can only spot it since I know it's there. It could honestly be just a spot in the glass alas it isn't and it shows up prominently with sunlight behind it.
Betty made four more of her patented Silverware Dragonflies of which this one was her favorite. She was hard pressed between this one and the Dragonfly with the white iridized wings but the iridescence was so faint that we both knew that the picture wouldn't show it, so here we are in blue.
Cindy got more Cardinal Crosses completed which only proves that I'm out of the loop when it comes to knowing how many she needs to make because she also has one more she's working on!
Kandise ground on her Trio of Dogs and even made the small frame that will hang from and under the Camera that she made at the end of last year. Alas, with all of the rushing around I forgot to get a picture of that so enjoy the Dogs!
Let is hard at work on another Tulip Panel and I'm running out of names for these so we will call this one a Stylized Tulip with Scalloped Border. Watch and see if this isn't completed upon her return.
Bee is wrapping away on her dragonfly and we now have the measurements for the frame that she plans on placing this in. That means that this oval will indeed be squared off. Thanks to some LED lighting Bee's finished project will have light behind it even though it will be hanging on a wall.
Martha was relieved to discover that we got new grinding wheels in so she was hard at work grinding away on her Oval Hummingbird Window. She's also decided to leave it in its oval form so squaring it out is no longer the plan.
Linda L changed the white trim of Minnie's Dress to a heavily textured white to make it look more Girly-mousey. Then she began wrapping both Minnie and Mickey in foil after which she'll tack their respective heads together. (trust me, it's not nearly as gruesome as it sounds.) She also cut out a test heart to see how easily it would cut and, as I suspected, it cut out very easily indeed.
Last week Mary fooled me into thinking that the front of her Eye Of The Tiger Window was already completely soldered. This week I discovered that it wasn't when Mary finished soldering the back side and then flipped it over to do the front! Still, she managed to wrap up all of the soldering on this which means that it will get a channel and hooks attached when she comes back in.
Tracey, on the other hand, is definitely and most certainly finished soldering the front of her beautiful Magnolia Window. In fact, she's already well underway on having the back side soldered as well. We will be bending a zinc channel for this next week and will surely get it attached. Hopefully the entire window will be completed as well.
Shelley's Ballerina got her arms and head added which means that this is only two legs away from being completed! No offense intended but right now it reminds me of a shark attack!
Keri has a second and third Pink Princess Philodendron Leaf cut out with the one below having been ground as well. Look for some soldering fun to happen when she comes back in next week because she's taken this along home with her so that it will be ready for solder the minute she walks in the door!
MiMi is wrapping away and that's about all that I can say but it's close now--it's really getting close.
And here's the next Cardinal Cross that Cindy is making. She only has a few more pieces left to foil and then this will be behind her!
Susan R's Yorkie Dog has eyes now doesn't look so dazed and confused. The colors are a bit perplexing for Susan to envision because the fur appears to be colored somewhat differently in each of the pictures of the dog that she's trying to match. This is almost always a problem with a pet projects yet they always turn out nice. I just wish I had a picture of her progress to show you but I apparently didn't take one. :-(
And lastly, Annette came in and picked up a Logo pattern. She also plans on working on another Triple Cross but this time it will be a full window.
So yeah, breaking up is hard to do but I really have to go and get some work done!
Paul
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