Julie only has a few projects under her belt which made her Heron Window a bold choice of patterns to pick but now that it's finished I know that she feels she chose wisely. She has learned so much while making this and she never shied away from the more tasking sections of the pattern. She could have omitted all of the flowers that stretch across the top of the window but in the end she decided to keep them and it honestly balanced the window wonderfully. Then she decided to make a double border as well which, yes, increased the time it took to finish the window but which also made it so much more aesthetically pleasing. Julie did a marvelous job on this for sure!
Lorrie's Address Window is stylish but all the extra's don't detract from the most important part of an Address Window--the numbers themselves. She was locked into a color scheme but she went to extremes with it to create a wonderful earth toned window that no one would ever call bland or boring!
Bee's Long Tall Iris looks stunning especially with the multicolored glass that she used as an inner border. Alas, I don't think you can go wrong with this pattern because as many times as I've seen this made I've never seen it done looking anything but striking. Bee's rendition is no exception.
Catherine's Spiderweb was made from a single sheet of an iridized clear texture which she accented with a Spider made of glass nuggets for the body and wire for the legs. The construction of the spider is certainly tricky but like everything else there's a trick to making it easier to assemble. A wonderful Halloween design for sure!
This is the first of Barbara's three beveled center Crosses. The dark royal blue is right up my ally so of course I like it! There's an art to putting the nine piece Crosses together and Barbara knows what it is now so I'm expecting more Crosses brilliantly made by her.
MiMi is working on a Cross in the form of a Celtic Knot which is really looking spectacular already. If memory serves me well (which it usually doesn't) this is the first of a pair of these fine pieces of art!
Elaine was back and in just one night she cut out a bumble bee and even managed to get it ground as well. That's pretty darned amazing for someone who is essentially a new student!
Cheryl is hard at work on her Mardi Gras Pelican Window and is currently working on grinding all of the pieces that she's got cut out. We've decided that she'll cut the background after she tacks all of this together to help with squaring things out and aligning the top section around the crown which looks like it might be a little tricky for her.
Cindy is working away on a somewhat complex suncatcher of a Cobra. The pattern itself just misses fitting on a piece of standard sized paper so it's fairly large for a suncatcher, but when you look at the number of pieces you realize that it entails a lot of small pieces regardless.
Meanwhile Sheri is hard at work on her Rooster Head. In this post you can really see how it's all coming together. This is going to be vibrant in the sunlight for sure.
Kandise has all of her Dragonfly cut and ground. I'm still amazed at how easily she handled the most difficult part--the segmented body! Those tiny symmetrical pieces usually slow people down and elicit some cuss words, but not Kandise!
Susan D is just about set to assemble her three dimensional Bird Bath. Since this will be holding some water (which is a lot of extra weight) we are going to have to give the roof some extra attention to make sure that it's secured as strong as possible. I suspect that we'll be using wires for some extra strength.
Jan is back and is working on her Three Dogs Window. We've had an issue or two involving missing pattern pieces so she's going ahead with foiling and tacking what she's completed before she cuts out and missing pieces. This will prevent things from sliding around and allow her to cut new pieces by simply tracing out the holes that she has when it's tacked together.
Betty's Luna Moth has been assembled and is ready to be soldered. As you can see (if you look closely) she also has one of her Butterfly Silverware pieces just about finished. She's bent the wire for the antenna all by herself and it came out perfectly. Betty is one of our premier wire benders and that's no lie!
Let has her Circular Flower Piece well under control now even if she believes it looks a bit of a mess sitting here in its unground state. The thing is that ALL stained glass windows look disheveled before the grinder touches all of the pieces. I think this is going to look lovely.
Here we see two more Crosses that Barbara has ground and ready to take home with her to be foiled. I've shown her how to ensure that the Crosses balance perfectly so that they don't hang crookedly so she'll be fixing the one on the right before she tacks it together.
I somehow didn't manage to get a picture of Susan R's Watering Can and Flowers project but it's all foiled now. That means that Susan is about to cut out her 24 or so leaves which will be tacked on wire vines and then tacked all throughout the front of her Watering Can. Here's a picture from last week to refresh your memory.
And that is what we call THAT!
Paul
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