Betty's Abstract Free Form Window looks amazing and the black accent pieces fit in perfectly with the black patina that she used for all of her lead lines. Of course, she formulated the look of her completed window in her head thus knowing that she would turn all of her lead black. Because of this she made sure to foil all of her clear pieces with black backed foil so that no copper coloring would shine through the glass. When you make a window you MUST plan ahead!
And this is Nettie's second Macaw in a Hoop but I'm not longer sure of which size this was. I'm going to have to sort through patterns to figure out the sizes because when you only have a picture to go by it's hard to figure out what size you are dealing with. Nonetheless, it's another beautiful Bird. Nettie has really been on a roll here!
Well it's official-- MiMi got the third section of her lamp tacked into place which joins in between sections 2 and 1 thus giving her a complete lamp! Once it was all assembled she flipped it upside down and added a thin wire to follow the bottom irregular edge which helps add strength and protect the edge pieces. She did that so quickly and efficiently that she was then able to use key points on the top of the lamp to then center the brass cap. We tacked it in only three places and then did a lift from the center of the cap and found MiMi had it perfectly balanced on the first try. After anchoring the cap securely MiMi was then able to begin the actual soldering process. She'll be continuing that final step for the next few weeks until her lamp is completed in entirety.
Look at Jan go! She is doing marvelously with her new Virgin Mary Pattern even getting those thin cuts near the neck in one shot. I believe that she said she'd like to put this in a window and that will be easy enough but first well have her tack all of this together so we can trace it atop whatever background glass she chooses.
Let has decided to substitute small star bevels for the the round nuggets/globs that run throughout the center tan background section. They look more elegant and they work beautifully with all of the lines that break the background up. I have a sneaking suspicion that this will gain a channel and some hooks upon her return.
Lorrie's hard at work on her nearly three 3 foot tall Hummingbird Window. She came in eager to begin and traced out the pattern onto some poster board and then picked out a flower, cut it out of the poster board pattern and then traced it onto some glass. She then cut that glass into its 12 respective pieces. It's small and it's pink and if you look closely you can see that it's not only cut but ground as well! When dealing with large patterns with many pieces it's best to cut the pattern up in small sections leaving the rest all attached.
With her Spider Plant all foiled Susan has now moved on over to foiling her Woodpecker. She's currently in the zone when it comes to foiling and as I always say, 'why stop and drop the ball'? When you're on a roll and things are going great you shouldn't shift gears and move onto something else where you can then easily lose your groove. So foiling her Woodpecker was the best decision in terms of keeping production flowing at a nice steady pace.
Tracey has begun a 3D Butterfly Lawn Ornament and spent the night tracing out pattern pieces onto glass and then cutting them into individual pieces. These Butterflies don't take long to make so I'm thinking that she'll have this under her belt and in her garden before you know it.
Kandise is another fast worker. Her Sunset Scene Window was ground in essentially one single night! She was worried about the amount of space that she had between each of her pieces so I slid everything upward to reduce the spacing but then had to re-grind a few pieces. Sadly, one of the pieces on the right was then too short so she's going to re-cut that after this is tacked together since the pattern piece no longer matches the opening left for it. Changes or not, this looks perfect to me!
Cindy got her four curved corners cut and fitting into position for her Wolf Window and she didn't take the easy way out to cut those four pieces. Instead of making each corner two separate pieces Cindy cut the deep curves into each piece keeping the four corners whole. After that she even had enough time to completely solder the first side proving that Cindy can knock out a window as quick as quick can be.
Keri has her last two Pink Princess Philodendron leaves soldered with one of them being finished save for having its 'stem' attached with the second one only needing to be touched up. 3D is never easy to solder and maneuvering these leaves back and forth to keep things level so that the solder doesn't just roll off the lines can take more time than a person might think. That said, these will be completed within the first half hour of Keri's next class.
Paula's 3D Cactus is getting some decorative lead dots places on the edges of the green cactus pieces. It's a tricky process but I can guarantee that by the time she finishes this she'll have it down pat. It looks to me like she's already there!
And there ya have it,
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