I always say that the second one always goes quicker. Case in point, when Lara left last week she still needed to solder her red stained glass Corset which she accomplished as soon as she walked in the door this week. Then she went ahead and cut out a second Corset in a new color scheme and completed it before the night was through. Since she had made them in two different colors I just have to ask: Which one is your favorite?
Jan's Heart Plaque is nothing short of charming! The addition of two Curly-Q's just brought it all together perfectly. It's a minimal panel with a huge punch!
Judy's Woman's Head Window was completed just as class was ending. I think it's a very stylish piece and I won't be very surprised if someone else doesn't decide to make one as well.
Keri's third and final Pink Princess Philodendron Leaf has been completed but it looks like she's going to be making three more of these leaves for another flower pot that she'll be giving to her mother. She's definitely on a roll here!
In my quest for making at least one suncatcher a week to help restock the shop I've put together a quick Tulip Pendant which only measures 4 inches in diameter. Then I took some small leftover strips and cut them into angles to dress up a 2 x 2 bevel to form a unique looking Suncatcher as well. I still have some strips left over and another idea so expect to see something similar again next week.
Linda F has her Butterfly all ground and I only just realized that she's going to make this with angled 3D wings. That will easily happen next week when we'll cover that unsightly center seam with a butterfly body!
Paula is working on a Cat Suncatcher and already has it all cut and ground. The mouth will be made with wire which will be attached after this cat has been soldered which could very well happen next week. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts on that!
Julie's Multi-colored Star is all foiled and ready for soldering. She really impressed me with her foiling abilities because these pieces are much smaller than you may think. The problem with foiling small pieces is that it's hard to surround the piece in foil while not crushing the foil on the edges that you have already covered. Luckily, Julie took her time and in the end she got the job done like she's done this a hundred times before.
Tracey was so busy that she got a HUGE amount of work done on her Virgin Mary Window! It's almost completely cut out already which means that she'll be grinding away when she comes back in.
As you can see, Mary has also been a busy woman. She's got all of the petals cut for the top most Sunflower and is now hard at work at grinding them. After that she'll wrap and tack that flower before moving onto the next one.
Linda L has each of her Mice all ground and foiled but she's voted against tacking them together at this point in time since she's going to be on vacation and she doesn't want her window to sit with flux on it any longer than it needs to sit. So for the remainder of the class she worked on cutting out some of the clear glass hearts that form the background of this window (which you can see in a stack just above Mickey's nose). Linda says that working with clear window glass is "GREAT!" because it cuts so easily and she's certainly correct on that!
Betty said that she knew that her Mardi Gras Mask wouldn't be completed in time for the big day but that just means that she's going to be ahead of the game for next year. With all of her background cut out she's now working on grinding her pieces of which there are very few to go.
Cindy is flying through the cutting and grinding of her Wolf Window. This is another window whose size is misleading because this is almost to the point of being mammoth. Because of the size of this we had to add lead lines so that larger pieces would fit onto a standard sheet of glass. The wolf itself wasn't a problem but the Moon and the background had to be 'broken' down into smaller pieces.
Susan R has changed her little Yorkie's ear and has cut all but three pieces for this dog's cute little face. Also, I still need to find a nice pink for the tongue because the person who has the pink I wanted to steal a scrap from wasn't able to make it into class this week!
June has returned and her Muti-Colored Cat got its background all cut out, ground, foiled and tacked into position. Once that was done June still had time to pick out a matching muti-colored border color, get it cut into strips, and then into their individual pieces as well. That's a productive night for sure.
Let has got the background all cut and ground for her Circular Flower Window which is an impressive amount of work. Look VERY closely and you'll be able to see some purposeful gaps between the background glass which will fill with lead to form a much thicker line to better represent stems rather than lead lines. One of these thicker lines comes off of the main stem that runs up the center of the window to the flowers. Next week Let will cut her bevels and learn how to foil them because nothing is ever easy and that includes foiling a bevel that has had to be cut.
Martha is all tacked together and soldering away. She has the majority of the front of this soldered so perhaps this will be completed next week when we see it again!
Well look at this! Keri already has her next Pink Princess Philodendron leaf cut and ground!
MiMi is foiling her life away. There's also some good and bad news here--We have the cap for her lamp but I forgot to show it to her. Alas, it will here when MiMi comes back in. Next we need to decide on what kind of wiring this will be accepting which is dependent on whether this will hang from the ceiling of stand on a base. We have plenty of time for that though.
Mary Grace finished tacking together the rectangular Spine portion of her Window and then moved on to grinding the letters for the smaller text section that will reside under the spine. With the letters having been ground the next hard part of working on the text will be tracing the letters out onto the background glass and then cutting and grinding all of that background to fit nicely. I always say that when it comes to stained glass, text is a four letter word.
Cheryl got the final border attached to her Mr Bingle Window and then cut the hat out of the correct color of glass. Alas, while working on the hat we noticed that Mr Bingle's arm was cut out of the background glass color rather than white but it's a simple fix. We've knocked out the incorrect color and will replace it when she comes back in next month. Yep, Cheryl will be missing a few classes due to other obligations but rest assured she will be back in plenty of time to have this window completed in time for Christmas 2026!
Annette has got her border tacked onto her Central Catholic Window and even got a channel attached to it as well. This sucker is ready for soldering. I know it isn't her favorite thing to do but she's better at it than she thinks she is so I have no doubts at all that she'll do a great job. When it comes to soldering, slow and steady makes the smoothest lead lines.
Mardi Gras is upon us so everyone have fun storming the castle!
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
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