Linda F has completed her transom window and the end result is exactly as I expected it to be: perfection. Everything from the glass cutting to the soldering was handled with the utmost precision and the finished window is something that Linda can be extremely proud of.
Cindy began and completed her Rose Cross which features bevels on the ends of her clear textured Cross (which makes the flower stand out all the more). There's only one thing to say about this and that's that it is stunning.
Nettie spent her time soldering the second of her three Nativity Scene Windows. Once she has them all soldered we're going to frame them out and join them together with a special channel. We've never done this before but it's a straight forward process that we aren't concerned about at all. I actually had 2 of the windows to show you but I accidentally overwrote one of them!
The 'undercarriage' on MiMi's lamp is filling up with lead, her cap looks like it's wonderfully secured and that's all I have to say!
Martha is hard at word precisely grinding the rose for her Rose Cross. I'm unsure what color she'll be using for the cross itself but I do know that she'll also have bevels in it. Our next post surely will reveal her color choice.
Susan R is making two Rain Gauges and has them both cut out and ready to grind. These will certainly go together lickety split for her.
Betty's Blue Rose is all cut out and ground which means that she's come face to face with the foiling process. She's working from the outside in so it's really just the Rose itself that needs foil at this point in time and I'm sure she'll resume working on it while at home. She's very close now!
Kandise has all of her Peacock cut and ground so she'll be foiling this when she comes back in. She'll be placing this into a metal hoop so it's time to see exactly how this will attach. If worse comes to worse we will apply the hoop behind the bird but I think we'll manage to do it the same way that Lorrie and Nettie did their Hoop Birds.
Jan's working on her Doggie Heads Window and it's really taken shape. It looks like she just needs to cut out a few background pieces and she'll be ready for foiling and a border.
Let has everything but her border cut out and ground but that won't happen until she foils and tacks together the pieces that you see b5elow (which fit together wonderfully). In other words, it's fare to guess that she'll have her border cut, ground and attached during her next class.
Julie ground all of the flowers and the leaves that border the top portion of her Heron Window and then proceeded to foil them all as well. Next week she'll tack this and get her background pieces cut out. That should go very quickly which means that she's approaching the end of this impressive window.
June's Seahorse is coming together in a most beautiful way and her grinding, as always, is top notch. She's moving through this pretty fast as well and I think it may have something to do with the fact that she isn't having to worry about random color placements as she had to with her cat window.
Linda L has her pair of Bluebirds all ground and foiled. She soldered the front side and has flipped it over to complete the back side next. I have a sneaking suspicion that this will be completed during her next class.
Lorrie cut and ground the many, MANY pieces that make up her Turtle's head and flippers. Then she even managed to foil each of those tiny pieces. That means that the only thing left for her to do is to cut out the few large pieces of background when she comes back in. The most impressive thing about her work this week is that she did it all with a sprained and swollen ankle!
Mary came in with her Fish window all cut out save to the eye and a large piece of background glass that she had run out of. By the time class was finished Mary had everything cut, ground and foiled. She'll tack this together at home and get her double borders cut when she comes back in.
Mary Grace has numerous Flower Suncatchers in the works and is grinding away on them. Alas, she's missing a few pieces so she'll just tack together what she has and fill in the missing pieces by tracing the openings out onto the glass. A perfect fit every time.
Sheri has all of her glass picked out for her Triangular Abstract Window and has two of the colors all cut as well. Who knows what all else may be completed on this when she comes back in.
Cheryl is about to embark on a Mardi Gras Pelican Window. Why is it a Mardi Gras Bird? Well, check out the Crown on its head. That surely turns it into a Mardi Gras window. We'll see her color choices when she comes back in and begins cutting glass.
Lastly, Paula has begun a beautiful flower window with that ever popular curved top. The flowers are Foxgloves and they make for an incredibly delicate design that I know Paula will make easily enough. The only problem is that I didn't appear to get a picture of it this week. :-(
It's come to my attention that I haven't been posting these Blog Updates on Facebook so starting tomorrow morning I will be posting one a day until we're all caught up here!
Later,
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
