Wednesday Afternoon
All went well today and everyone moved ahead with whatever it was they were working on. We had finished projects, freshly started projects and windows that are in various stages of being complete.
Kim finished cutting the larger hot air balloon in her pattern and then moved on to her grass and sky. Considering how many pieces are in her entire window, she’s about 75% finished with her cutting.
Jo Ann decided on a mallard pattern which we drew to full size from a small postage stamp sized illustration in a pattern catalog. It’s amazing what you can do with a computer and a scanner…
Ann is now begining work on a bordered mirror with a winding flower and stem tracing the right side of the mirror. She’s begun cutting the flower out which we will overlay onto the finished mirror.
Julie went full speed ahead and tacked together all of what she took home to wrap last week. The center will alternate between clear baroque glass and white baroque glass. Then she’ll square it off and add three borders (including 1 beveled border). This is where she’s at today.
Our lighthouse is moving right along. Ellen cut out all but the border of her oval shaped window and then ground it all. However, due to an error on my part in designing the pattern, we have to recut the top right piece of sky and the cloud below it. As I had it drawn the lighthouse top was off center to the right. We slid it to the left to straighten it out but that made our sky come up short. It just goes to show that while you have to look every line’s placement while drawing a pattern, you also have to step back and make sure it all lines up. I overlooked the forrest for the trees.
We also have a picture of Ellens ellusive butterfly that she made 2 weeks ago. She’s moving along quickly and I think she’s going to love her lighthouse next week when it’s tacked together.
And while we’re talking about ellusive projects I’ll bring up Billie’s 2 Cardinals that she finished today. She and Jo Ann were trying to get out the door quickly to be somewhere else on time and I missed out on my photo opportunity. So the best I can do is show you the pattern she made her cardinals from. Picture 3 of them because that’s how many she made!
Paul