An Easy Night
With Craig, Amanda, and Christine all not being able to make it in for class, we ended up with only Jane who managed to make some wonderful progress on her latest project. Last week she had picked a Rose window design that I had made years upon years ago. We scaled it down to fit in the window she wants to hang it in and then we altered the leaves to give it a more natural look. The original window was designed from either a pattern in a book or from some wallpaper we wanted to match and I was never happy with the way the 2 leaves looked– They looked like an afterthought just thrown in for good measure. Our new pattern has a much better flow and looks much more natural.
Jane sat down, cut up her pattern, and began tracing the pattern pieces onto her glass. She then cut her flower and leaves out and we managed to get it all ground and ready for her to take home to wrap during the week.
The hardest part of this window is finished which leaves us with the background and 2 borders. We all know that borders can be applied almost as quickly as you can wrap glass because the strip cutter makes the process of cutting the borders easy and exact.
Look to see a lion’s share of the work to be finished next week on this beautiful window. Janes version is on the left and the original (anemic-looking) version is to the right. Jane’s is a little narrower which, I feel, gives it a more delicate look. You can see that her’s will easily outshine the original.
      
Paul