Let completed her large circular Bird of Paradise Suncatcher and her color choices and skills are perfectly visible in her latest work.
Nettie completed another pair of butterflies with the larger of the two being a flower pot decoration. The smaller one was made to be suspended from three chains so it can hang from the ceiling to give it the illusion of flying!
Cindy forgot to bring in the pattern for her next project so she looked through suncatcher patterns and decided to make an Iris rather than just sitting around wasting time. She actually picked something a little more complex than I thought she might but I know that she'll make quick work of this regardless.
Lorrie has resumed work on her Turtle Window and is currently working on the hardest part-- the turtle itself. It's the head and the flippers which are made up of tiny pieces that will slow things down on this window but not by much since Lorrie just plows on through any obstacles that get in her way!
Nettie also worked on soldering the first of her three Nativity windows which when displayed side by side form one large Nativity Scene. I'll have to talk about the border situation with Nettie when she comes back in because I honestly cant recall what was going on with that.
Susan R has almost the entirety or her Beveled Star USA Plaque cut and is working on grinding those pieces now. How very timely of her to be so patriotic!
Paula's back to work on her 3D Succulent and has all of the fancy soldering done on each of her pieces. I can safely say that she certainly has the hang of attaching solder drops onto the edges of soldered glass pieces. Her dots are uniform in size, firmly attached and most certainly rounded rather than misshapen lumps. I have no doubt that this will come together quickly when she returns.
The actual Heron in Julie's Heron window has officially been foiled and ready to be tacked together. Cutting out her flowers will be up next and I'm not sure what color she might decide to use for them or if she'll be using multiple colors throughout the flowers. Time will tell.
As predicted, Tracey got her border attached and then began soldering. With so many projects being so close to being completed during Tracey's class it's hard to predict exactly what will be finished on any given class night. All I can say is that this is close now, her soldering is wonderful and her border color is perfect.
Bee's tacked all of her large Roses and Hearts Window together and then picked out, cut, and ground the pieces that make up the final border. This window is her own design and all of the work that she's done on it is amazing. She plans on soldering a lot of this while she's at home so who knows how far along she'll be when she returns.
June was hard at work grinding the tail of her Seahorse Window. Once she finished her grinding the tail scales she cut out more pattern pieces and picked the next color that will make up the upper section of the tail.
MiMi is working steadily on the inside of her lamp as we watch her come closer and closer to the outer edge. The top section around the cap goes quickly because it rotates quicker than the wider outer edge. That said, she can solder more area now without having to rotate her lamp as much so I suppose that in that respect things are possibly a little easier???
Cheryl's Buffalo Bills Football Helmet now has its front side completely soldered which means that she'll easily finish this when she comes back in. Since she was able to wrap all of her border pieces and solder the front side in one class I know that she'll easily complete the soldering on the second side with plenty of time to spare.
Martha has all of her Butterfly Window cut, ground and foiled. The lighter blue border is perfect and I'm going to give this two weeks to go before she completes it and begins something new.
Mary is now soldering the second side of her Sunflower Window after having completed the front side. I'm predicting two more weeks on this and then she'll be finished with this stylishly impressive window.
MiMi's also been working on another pair of windows while at home and I must say that they are already looking quite amazing!
Betty wasn't in this week but she sent me a picture of the work she completed on her Blue Rose Window while at home. It looks me as though she's nearly finished with this already!
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Sheri is working on a new window but I realized that I didn't get a picture of the pattern that she had traced out until she had it outside. I grabbed the camera, ran out to her and snapped two pictures but the sun was so bright I honestly couldn't see anything in the viewfinder. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the lens had fogged up from hitting the humid heat of the outdoors after sitting in the air conditioned shop. And that explains this picture of should have been Sheri's pattern. 
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Barbara sifted through a lot of the patterns that we have in the shop and settled on a beautiful Art Nouveau design. She's traced it out onto poster board and will begin cutting glass after she looks to see what she might want to use from her glass stash at home.
Susan D has been here in class with us for the last few weeks but she's working on a major repair job. Since there's not much to see I don't generally post pictures of repair work unless we haven't seen the piece before.
Then there is Kandise who is working on a repair of her own and who has hit a bit of a snag finding some glass to match what's broken. She may have to just come close and then knock out a piece or two in its companion window to keep them both symmetrical. Repairs-- you've gotta love them.
Lastly, Judy's Dog Window which is a gift that she doesn't want posted here. It's moving along again now that Judy is back in class and it's actually nearly complete. She's even going to add the letters LSU to it by firing them permanently onto the glass in our kiln so that will be exciting. Perhaps I'll post that piece of glass when it's been fired so I can share something of this window to our constant readers.
With all of that being said be sure to come back next week for even more fun!
Paul
Martha has all of her Butterfly Window cut, ground and foiled. The lighter blue border is perfect and I'm going to give this two weeks to go before she completes it and begins something new.
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