Back On Track
Due to my being a bone-head I’m missing a picture of the two windows that Cheryl and Joey managed to finished this week. 
After Joey finished washing and waxing them we had laid the panels out on the table next to each other. I then became obsessed with getting a shot of Cheryl’s newest window into the camera and I completely forgot about the finished ones only 2 feet away from us on the same table. I’m hoping that I can convince Joey to bring them back again next week so everyone can see what a wonderful job they both did when I finally take pictures!
I did manage to take a picture of the last section of Joey and Cheryl’s cabinet doors that Joey was working on. It’s more pattern than window at this point in time but you can easily see what it’s all about. Joey traced out the pattern and averted disaster by reminding me that our original pattern was drawn 1/2 inch short. In the nick of time (before he started cuttingit up) we added the extra half inch to the edge of the pattern and then when he cut all the pattern apart Joey began cutting the flowers out. Here’s the latest window he’s working on.
Cheryl went immeadiately to work on her Franklin Foundation Hospital logo this week. It will be finished long before the new hospital is up and running at the rate she’s going. She got all but 2 pieces cut and ground all in one night. It will most likely have a completely clear glass background to square it out and will be finished off wil a beveled border.
Ellen was back and it was good to see her again. Life has a way of stepping on the things we really want to do and Ellen will attest to that. After all the jokes about forgetting who she is (it had been only 2 weeks but we love to kid!) we sat her down and got her working on the 2nd window of her screen. She’s almost finished with this section and as I’ve said before her third panel will be really easy for her since it’s the least complex of the 3 sections. She has part 2 all ground except for the feathers in the bird but they’re cut so we should see some wrapping going on next week. Everything is fitting together wonderfully on this project and as always, Ellen’s work is flawless. I can’t wait to see the 2 panels next to each other…
On a similar note, Jane was hard at work while at home this week and her bayou scene (which is very reminiscent of Ellen’s pattern) is also nearly complete. She got the top of her skyline cut and finished grinding everything. She managed to get all the tree limbs and the sky behind them cut while she was at home (a tricky job to do alone) and it all fit perfectly. She cut a green/brown border and got it all ground and ready to tack together just before class ended. This will be finished next week for sure.
Fran came in and set upon the task of picking out all the glass for her window this week. She then traced out her pattern and got it all cut up and ready to be traced onto the glass she’d picked out. We started with some of the easier pieces to let her get comfortable with cutting and it worked. There’s a noticable difference in her ability with ony 14 pieces under her belt this week. 
I’ll bet we see a lot of progress on this window next week since she’s doing great already!
Lastly we have a window that a lot of the students have been asking about. Gerald came in and had decided (just like Cheryl) that the background of the L S U side of his window was going to be clear window glass. This makes the letters really stand out as if they are floating. After cutting 5 tricky pieces he had to come up with a color for his final border. We looked at all kinds of yellow and purples including the ones he’d already used in the window but the one that really seemed to work was a wispy Spectrum purple that’s just a shade off from the rough-rolled purple making up the L S U and darker parts of the tiger. He cut it, ground it, wrapped it, tacked it and then we added the brass channel to finish it all up. He breezed thru soldering the first side and got about half of the second side completed before he headed home to finish it there. We’ll see this one completed next week for sure as well as have him start something else. Great job Gerald. Fabulous!
And that’s what we did here this week in classes.