It Slipped My Mind
With 2 relatively small classes spread out as far as they could be I seem to have forgotten to do the blog this week! Better late than never though…
Let’s start with Ellen’s latest project– 3 Mardi Gras masks. She cut them out, ground them and wrapped them at home so when she came in all she had to do was add the globs in the upper corners of the masks and then solder them at angles to give them a 3D curve. After they were soldered we added the twisted wire handles and called them finished! I wish you could see just how curved these pieces are so you could REALLY appreciate them.
Gerald said that when he looked at the blog last week he thought that the flowers he had cut out looked lifeless and dead. So when he came in he set about fixing that by cutting new ones. Sometimes you can’t really see what your window is shaping up to look like until you get away from it for a day or step back to take in the big picture. Once he pointed it out to me I have to say that I agree with him. Gerald also re-trimmed the edge pieces of his window because we had drawn them wider on the pattern so we could make adjustments for a precise fit.  Now that we have the finished size of his first 2 sections we were able to determine just how wide the actual glass had to be. Don’t his flowers look bright and alive this week? 
While Ellen was working on her masks Julie was busy cutting the remaining pieces to her traditional styled stained glass window. She not only got it all cut out but she also managed to grind about half of it. Julie will be tacking this one together soon which means we’ll be able to hold it up and get a good look at it!
When Janice left last week she had cut the top section of her Ladybug window. When she came back this week she had it all ground, wrapped and ready to be tacked together! After she tacked it she moved onto cutting out the LAYLA bottom section of her window. She traced it, cut it and then proceeded to grind most of it as well. She moves along quickly now that she’s become comfortable with the glass. Next week well add the borders and start soldering.
Mary Lynn filled in the few missing pieces to her Spiritual Window which included the tricky eye pieces for the two animals. One that was finished she came up to another big decision– how to do the borders. After some serious consideration she picked a tricky triple border done with a wide royal blue inner border surrounded by two thin bands of ruby red glass. These borders sound simple enough to make but there’s a lot of precise measuring to get them spaced correctly since there are red pieces interspersed within the blue section of the border. This may not make much sense but you’ll see when it’s all together next week. Mary Lynn has the first two borders cut and ground and took them home to wrap.
Grace picked a great looking Indian themed design for her next project and got her second pattern all traced and cut up. Next week she’ll trace her pieces out onto the glass and begin cutting glass.
Lastly, we have a finished window from Tommy who worked on this one at home. He drew it up the pattern himself and finished it inside of a week. Tommy is always working on something at home and when we see finished results we’ll be sure to post them here so you can see what he’s doing as well.
We have classes starting up again in just 2 days so check back again to see what’s happening here.