That Busy Time Of Year
I have had a few coals in the fire this week and the blog was put on the back burner until the weekend. Maybe things will get less hectic around here after the holidays.
Let’s start with Joey and fill you on on what’s been happening with him. He picked up Danielle’s Parot window that was started back in August but never finished because Danielle ended up back in school during the middle of the project. All that was needed on this window was a face for the Parot, the border and some soldering. Joey handled almost all of it in class on Wednesday night so we’ll definately see this window hanging up next week. Here’s what it looks like now with only a quick soldering left to go on it.
Cheryl did the double borders for her USL window and I must say that the colors are striking. She handled the borders by herself and everything lines up nicely as you can see in the picture below. She pounded out this complex window just as quickly as the easier LSU patterns she had done in the past few weeks which shows how her skills have improved. This one has no choice but to be finished by next week and I have no doubt that it will be since Cheryl gets a lot of soldering done while at home.  I can’t wait to see it hanging up when some back light can show off all the colors.
Gerald was slaving away at his LSU window this week and managed to get all of the background cut, ground wrapped and tacked together. Look for a double border on this one next week and then it will be nearly complete.  It was a tight fit with the glass he had but he got it all out even after I accidentally cut his background glass on the wrong axis first which meant that he really had to work to get this together, lines up and square. Luckily he didn’t get mad at me for making his work this week a little harder than it needed to be. Thanks Gerald! 
Ellen finished with the grinding of her Bayou Scene window and then spent the rest of her class wrapping the pieces. What she didn’t finish went home with her where she can wrap it more comfortably in front of the TV. :-) There are a few pieces that are missing but only a small handful and that’s to be expected when you cut out a window with this many pieces. It’s too easy to mix up your pattern and move one or two into the CUT pile when you really didn’t cut the piece out yet. This is very minor and will all be handled next week. You can really see what this is going to look like now that it’s all fitted together. The entire project isn’t quite finished yet as there are left and right side panels to go with this center panel!
Last, but not least we have Jane’s latest project. She cut all of it out (except the border) at home and came in with it all tacked together. She added the border and then soldered the front side of it during class. All that’s left to do is the back side and she’ll do that at home. That means that this picture is the last we’ll see of it since Jane finishes off most of her projects at home by herself. Actually, it looks complete because the front IS completely finished and she washed it before taking a picture. You can’t even tell that it hasn’t been patina’ed yet.
Look for some pictures of the Peacock window here next week. It took a lot of solder (10 rolls) but I managed to get all of it soldered just yesterday and will be washing it and coloring it today (Saturday).