She Loves The Finished Product
It was a busy week and we have a lot to show so let’s jump right into it.
Mary Lynn is VERY happy with her completed window. She’s still unsure if it will hang on the front of her house or if it will be displayed as a lawn ornament but it’s finished and ready for display. The title of our Blog is dedicated to Mary Lynn who always advances through her projects worried about how it will all come together. We always reassure her that it will look great and she always agrees in the end. She loves her window. (As do we!)
We had two new students this week and we all know what that means– 2 more butterflies! Lea came in, buckled down and jumped right in to cutting and grinding glass. By the end of the night she walked out the door with this butterfly suncatcher.
Sheila came in with Lea and worked on a butterfly of her own but in different colors. Here’s a look at hers:
Both Sheila and Lea had no problems at all handling their cutters and finishing their first projects. Look here next week to see what patterns they chose for their first windows.
Jane S continued working on her Bird Window and got VERY far indeed. All of her background is now cut, ground and wrapped. I was amazed at how quickly she managed to wrap all her background pieces. Jane has really got the hang of wrapping glass. We’ll but a border on this next week and see this hanging up with some light behind it.
Gerald measured the viewable area of the 4 windows he’s working on and discovered a slight problem: there was an awful lot of glass covered by wood which meant that he had to redraw his patterns, especially the tail window. With almost a quarter of the left hand section of the tail hidden it was a simple thing to shift it over slightly so it would all be visible when then window is installed. Also, the eye window has been completely redrawn to match the one in the center of the LSU Football Field. Here’s a look at the new patterns that Gerald will begin cutting next week.
Gerald isn’t the only person making a window for someone. Jane P kept busy this week soldering her bevels together and then laying them out to outline in 3 different colors of glass. There’s still a blue section to be added and I’m fairly sure we’ll be seeing this one finished next week.
Judith had her pattern for her first window picked out before she came into class. It’s based on Eros and Psyche. After tracing out her pattern and cutting out the paper pieces she cut the flesh parts of the male in her window. She’s moving right along and next week the glass she cuts won’t blend into the paper pattern so much and we’ll really be able to see the progress she’s making.
Cheryl was in this week along with Danielle to finish up the window that Joey started but has been unable to finish due to his new work schedule. Once again I didn’t need to touch up any of the soldering on this window because Cheryl’s soldering has become near perfect. It’s nice to see how Cheryl and Joey have managed to work together so often to get projects finished. Don’t you love the colors on this one?
Grace went to work this week on her third cross. We have a pattern emerging here and only time will tell how many of these she’ll end up making. All I know is that she moves faster and faster with each one she makes. This time she got it all cut out and nearly ground as well. We’ll see this one finished next week for sure.
Meanwhile Janice worked on getting the back side of her Fleur De Lis window soldered. She moved along with great speed and I barely have to do any retouches on the soldering at all. Let’s just say that Janice has nothing to worry about when it comes to soldering. Here’s the final look at this window before we see it finished.
Barbara was in earlier during the week to ask if the pattern she had drawn up was possible to do in glass. It certainly was so this week she began cutting out the glass for it. She’s ready to start cutting out her background glass already! I think she’s really gotten the hang of this art already and can’t wait to see this one hanging up.
Christine came in and she finished up the last of her deer window. After soldering the back she decided to skip a border on this window and let the deer speak for itself (so to speak). Because of the way the lead lines worked out we didn’t need a border to attach the hooks to hang this one. You can see how wonderful it looks hanging in the window here in the shop.
And she didn’t stop there either. While she was at home she got this rose cross made which looks just as good as her deer window. This is another pattern that was designed by Christine herself.
Not being context with all of that, Christine also worked on another Kaleidoscope Airplane. All she needs to do to finish this is solder the wirework for the wheels in place and she’ll be ready to go!   It’s obvious that Christine doesn’t waste a minute’s time while she’s at home!
Next week we’ll see one more Butterfly and a whole lot of progress on all the windows you’ve seen here as well as a number of new projects started. Be sure to check it all out!