Ying and Yang– Balance??
I guess it’s all about balance after all. This week Michele finished her Iris window and will be leaving our classes just as I learned how to spell her name correctly. (No one told me there was only one L in her name!) But Michele will be coming back after the kids get back in school and she has some more free time. To balance this out we have our newest student, Jessie, who began working on her first project today.
Michele started soldering immediately and after 2 hours or so she was finished. For a first effort at soldering she did quite well and should be proud of herself. She had the added pressure of having to be somewhere at 1:00 so she was really doing all she could to get this window finished so she could take it home with her.
And as you can see below, all her efforts paid off beautifully. Her Iris window is the latest in a series of Iris windows (it’s a popular pattern here which I’ve done numerous times myself) that have been done by different students over the years. Michele can rest assured that her work was wonderful and that her window is just as good as the other windows before it. In fact, it’s better than most of the first time projects I’ve seen in the past.
Jessie has been doing some glass work with her mother, Kim (who’s a regular on Wednesday afternoons), at home. So when she came in our class today we skipped the butterfly since she already knows most of how a window is made. She considered making a window with a whale in it but she couldn’t find anything that really sparked her interest with that idea. She had seen a pattern on the internet at a free pattern site and asked if she could do that one. We looked it up online and it was perfect. The next thing I knew Jessie was cutting up her pattern and getting ready to cut glass for it. She has all her glass picked and she’s already made a great start today.
Come back soon because we have another class tonight and will have more pictures of our student’s progress after the class…
Paul