Bee's Cross / Heart is stunning due to her workmanship and her use of bold rich colors. The border is a deep purple that makes everyone oohh and aahh especially when seen in direct sunlight. Bee did 99% of this window alone at home and her work is exquisite.
Cheryl's Mr. Bingle Christmas Window is completed and she loves it so much that she's hanging it in April rather than waiting until Christmas rolls around. In a unique twist, Cheryl has glued small gems onto Mr Bingle's face to form the mouth and nose.
This is Let's Flower Butterfly to which she applied some additional extra steps to fancy it up. First of all she added decorative solder drops throughout her solder lines and then she added wire pestles complete with solder dotted ends to give this Butterfly some stunning character. And she did of of this project completely on her own.
Susan D's Woodpecker Panel was completed and all of those tiny, thin pieces of glass make this bird look more like a painting rather than a cartoon drawing of a woodpecker. At only 6 inches in diameter this is not as large as you might assume from the picture. Her tree is also impressive because of her wonderful use of brown reeded glass.
Betty finished the work on three small Beveled Crosses as well as a pair of large Virgin Mary Suncatchers. She says that larger items will be making up the bulk of her upcoming projects which probably translates into more windows, less suncatchers.
Sheri had to put her Scissor Tailed Flycatcher window on hold since she got an order for a Geometric Window that she's already flying through in just one class. She only has the two sets of borders left to go on this and they could both very well be cut upon her return.
Kandise is making a Circular Magnolia but this one will omit a border and it will also not be 'truly' circular as the magnolia will be slightly larger than the rounded background. This makes the window appear to be more free flowing while still having the (required) extra strength of some background glass. As you can see, Kandise is already into the cutting phase of this window.
Keri cut out her large 'Skull' suncatcher after tracing out the pattern and already has everything cut out. There's going to be some grinding in her future but that's always the case. Nothing is ever made without having to grind.
Cindy is making a Butterfly / Flower of her own but hers is larger than Lets and features Cindy's Stained Glass Trademark: Tiny Pieces! As you can clearly see she's well under way on this so it shouldn't take her very long to muscle through it.
MiMi's soldering is most impressive. With each revolution of her lamp as she winds downward towards the bottom her soldering just gets better and better as you can easily see in the photo below.
Let has a Virgin Mary of her own well under way. Interestingly enough she assumed that this would be a borderless panel for two reasons: 1) the pattern didn't show a border and 2) the top is arched rather than straight. When I asked if she would be adding a border she was a bit surprised but instantly gave me an emphatic YES! And that's why you now see a border surrounding Mary!
Linda F has all of the background cut out for her Transom Window and has begun grinding those pieces to fit in between her flowers and vines. There are far more background pieces than you might initially assume so it won't be an overnight job but Linda is already making serious progress due to her wonderful cutting.
Susan R has another Bird cut and ground for her Birds On A Branch and she even picked out the color for the next (final) bird. The branches and feet will come after that and then this project will really come to life.
Barbara tacked her Irises together and then the two of us sat down to drawn a new background for her window since she didn't care for the way the leaves looked in her original drawing. 15 minutes later she had a new pattern that lined up with the flowers of the last one that she liked much better.
Lorrie's Humming Birds and Flowers Window is taking shape more and more with each piece of the background that she cuts out. She's using glue chip glass which gives her the benefit of not having to worry about the placement of her pieces because glue chip has no grain. That means that she can fit more pieces in a tighter space while wasting far less glass than she would if she had to arrange pieces in certain positions.
Julie has most impressively caught onto the entire process of this whole stained glass making thing in very little time because she's already ground the thin and small flower petals for the Irises in her Heron Window. I don't think this window that she believed would be a challenge is challenging her at all.
Well, it's official. Linda L has cut every last piece of glass for her Mickey and Minnie Mouse Window and also has them all tacked together as well. Allow me to tell you that the last piece that she filled in was one heck of a piece measuring under 1/8th of an inch! I wrapped it for her in 5/32 foil that I trimmed down even smaller to allow the glass to show! When you put all of your heart (or in the case HEARTS) into a window you don't skimp on the details. Soldering will begin when Linda returns from Disney World. How appropriate!
Martha's got the lid to her Wedding Box Completed and it will be joined to its box bottom next week. It hasn't been assembled yet or even cut out but it only consists of five pieces of glass so it will surely be completed upon Martha's return.
Then Nettie got the top lid portion of her second Wedding Box together and even soldered it. All that remains on this is the box bottom. As I said earlier, since that only consists of five pieces of glass that part of the build will come together quickly.
Tracey has a Butterfly Lawn Ornament that just won't allow itself to be assembled! She brought in the pieces for the wing that she had left at home last week but apparently two of her pieces had fallen out of the bag she had them in and we didn't have any of that glass in the shop so it's next week for sure! Therefore, rather than working on her butterfly Tracey began cutting out her newest Circular Magnolia Window. She actually got a great deal of it cut out but I forgot to take a picture of it which seems to becoming a habit for me. At least I have a picture of the pattern.
Lara's working on touching up the soldering on a window that was started long ago by our former student Jane. There were only a few rough spots left to go on the back side and although it wasn't finished this week it certainly will be when Lara returns.
June is about to embark on a Seahorse Window. She's traced out and numbered her pattern and will have some glass cut out and placed onto it when we next see this.
Lastly, just as she was last week, Judy was hard at work grinding on her Doggie Window. Good things take time!
You certainly can't say that our students are slackers!
Paul
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