Can't wait

In a couple of days I get to go back to my stained glass class and begin my own individual project. Each student will do the same pattern, but with ten different results, no doubt. We’ll select our own glass and colors. I am so looking forward to it.

This morning I gathered up the supplies and tools required for the class and it looks as though I might be in this for the longer haul. The tools and supplies aren’t exactly cheap, but they’ll last for years. And I have patterns already whirling around in my head. The glass itself ranges from inexpensive to very costly art glass. I’m into cheap until I know what I’m doing.

This is the pattern we’ll all work on this week.

Before class, I have to cut out each individual shape and number them. Each piece is a template for a piece of glass. With the hope that I can cut all the glass so that it will actually end up fitting into an overall square with corners and points matching where they’re supposed to match.

It looks a tad crooked to me, but that may be part of the learning curve. Learning how to compensate for the irregular. Or not. We’ll find out.