Plenty To See
(This is a quick notice to anyone who’s somewhat new to reading this blog: The small pictures that you see in between paragraphs can be clicked on for a larger view. Finished works are already blown up to their large size inside the blog itself and are not clickable.)
After all these weeks of hard work we got to see Janice hold her completed window up. We all fell in love with it she washed it but then when she applied the black patina to the lead it all came together perfectly. Now I touched up a little bit of the soldering on the first side but this was only run-throughs that appeared while soldering the second side. Janice did a wonderful job soldering this project and must be a glutton for punishment because she’ll start a similar window next week! After seeing this finished Fluer De Lis window I can understand why she likes the theme. Great job!
Jane S was another person to finish her project this week and I think she was amazed at what it turned out to look like. When the windows are sitting flat on the table all covered with magic marker lines/numbers and flux it’s hard to get a feel for what the finished window will look like. But once it’s washed and hanging up we always see a lot of smiles. Here’s the Window that Jane S made during her 5 week class.
Lea is working on a beveled window only slightly smaller than the one Janice just finished. She got the center section all cut and ground so we’ll see it dropped into the larger square section next week. Lea’s working quite well here and it’s hard to believe that this is her first real week of class!
Judith continued to cut out and grind her window making some major headway. All of the male’s hair is cut out as well as the females flesh and hair. I suspect that we’ll see all the cutting (save for the border) to be completed next week. You can really see what the pattern looks like now that there’s some color on it. And Judith gets a big nod of approval for being able to master the use of the glass pliers while she was at home this past week. 
Sheila picked a classic Fruit Bowl design and went to work cutting out all of the bowl and the leaves. She’s doing very well and taking her time cutting each piece in small sections rather than trying to take everything off in one quick (and impossible) cut. And it’s paid off. Look at the color she has in this window already!
Denise was busy as can be while she was at home this week. She’s got a bird and Flower window on her table being worked on as I type this (unless she’s finished it already!) and she’s also made a series of cross suncatchers. Don’t these all look great?
Meanwhile, Jane P was busy as usual this past week. She finished her Bird Window and had her Beveled Window all ready for zinc channel (which she didn’t have at home). We may not get to see the Beveled window completed because it may get picked up before class next week by the person who ordered it from Jane but if she still has it we’ll get a full sized picture and post it in the blog next week. Meanwhile you can look at her finished Bird Window. Jane has a special way of tying in her borders to colors that are used inside the windows she makes.
Here we have Jane’s Beveled window and a look at the pattern she’ll be starting at home this week.
Barbara resumed working on her Cross Window by cutting out the yellow sections of the background and then having it ground as well. I highly suspect that she’ll be wrapping this next week. Barbara is one of those rare people who seem to have taken to the Stained Glass process very naturally. I can’t fault her for anything she’s done so far and it only gets easier from here on out on her project!
Christine was also busy while she was at home this week. She has most of her Wolf window cut out and has begun grinding it. This one is slightly smaller than the one Grace made previously but Christine is breezing right through the smaller pieces of glass!
Grace made her 3rd (and final) cross in her series of 3 crosses. This one looks very similar to her 1st cross that she made about 3 weeks or so ago but with a slightly different background. Grace will start to take up some major table space when she starts working on a large window that you’ll see here next week.
Denise continued to work on her Ducks by grinding the remaining pieces. When she finished that she began wrapping and got very far along. One they are tacked together we’ll work on figuring out what the background will look like. She’s already decided that it will have water on the bottom of the window and sky above it.Wait until you see this wrapped– all the pieces will stand out nicely then.
Gerald worked on his Tiger Eye Window and cut out all of the black. With a little luck his Orange glass will be here next week along with some more black so he can resume working on this . It may not look like much now but just give this window another week to really see it pop!
I think that about wraps it up for this week. I mentioned that a new student would be joining us this week but he had to postpone the date of his starting due to his work schedule. We’ll see him soon enough though. Everyone have a great week and we’ll see you all a week from now.