Now This Is A Fast Turn Around!
This might be the quickest turn around for a blog update yet! Hopefully it will make up for the fact that the last entry was written just 1/2 hour ago. This posting (like the last one) is being written on the laptop away from home. Be sure to read the posting under this one (Titled “Mike Hutter Shows His Face) to see what happened last week.
Ellen came in and wanted to know what we thought about the last piece of her round border. She was under the impression that it was too small and was throwing off the roundness factor of her window. that and the fact that the piece was very uneven made me agree that she should recut the piece. After she replaced it (with a piece she’d already cut!) Ellen went to work soldering it. By the end of the class she had her window finished. What do you think of Ellen’s round Magnolia window? I only wish it were a sunnier day so you could see the beautiful blue/green border this has.
Gerald has all of his window cut ground and wrapped. He’ll add the border to it next week and finish this window shortly afterwards. Look to see a new section of his window soon as well as the finished version of this one!
Joey came in with a window to solder and another one to grind. He didn’t expect to get the soldering completed so he didn’t bring in the door that it will be inserted in, but it DID get finished. Then when he finished grinding the last large door he sat down and got it all wrapped! His wrapping speed has improved dramatically as he managed to get the entire window wrapped during the class. I’d say Joey had a very productive evening. After he finishes this door he has two others in different sizes to make. I drew up the pattern for the smaller door while he was grinding and was surprised that I was able to match the large doors perfectly. I thought we would need to make some modifications to fit it in a smaller door frame but it worked out just fine. Here’s the last of the large doors that Joey has left to solder.
Wow, Janice and Grace worked together to get all of the background and most of the leaves cut out on their window. Both the birds and the flowers will be done in white glass so you can already get a feel for what the finished window will look like from what they have cut already. Just imagine that the bottom section is a blue/green and you have the idea of how this is going to look. They’re both doing a great job.
Mark finished wrapping the rest of his pieces and then tacked his window together. There are about 12 pieces left to cut and then he’ll add a border to this before he starts soldering. Now that there are some lead lines between all the pieces you can really see what this window looks like. And if you pay good attention you can see that the window that Janice and Grace are working on is a combination of Mark’s last window and this one. I can’t wait to see this one hanging up and finished.
Mary Lynn worked on her peacock suncatcher today. It’s not a simple little finish-it-in-one-night deal like the butterfly was… this one has 34 pieces of glass and some extensive wirework that flows around it when the actual glass part of the peacock is completed. I liked the way Mary Lynn wasn’t a slave to the color scheme of the picture we had of one that was already finished. Just because someone does a window with one color scheme doesn’t mean that it always has to be completed with the same colors. Mary Lynn got all her glass cut tonight and will be grinding while she’s home. Here’s what she brought hom with her to work on.
And that about wraps it up this week. We’re back on track with our work schedule so the Blog will be updated regulary from this point on. Sorry about the delays the past 2 weeks!