New Stained Glass

Here is the newest stained glass panel I finished. I just finished this on Friday. I put the cement in it on Friday and so now it is just drying. I designed the window around a Moonlight Blue Cambridge butter dish. Apparently Moonlight Blue Cambridge glass is from the Depression era and is a bit harder to get a hold of. I didn't know that and had bought two of these butter dishes off of eBay last year with an idea of making a panel. I just never realized what pattern until a couple of weeks ago. I had been thinking of what to do with them, but I am not really creative. I follow patterns, and if there aren't patterns then I don't really know where to start. I laughed when I read Korryn's post the other day about the pink walls. Korryn described herself as not creative or crafty. That is also the way I feel about myself. As long as someone else has designed it, I am great at copying, but to create something myself.....yeah, that doesn't work so well.

So (Kara's favorite word), when I got the plates last year, I knew I wanted to use the crystals. I had taken down a chandelier from the dining room a couple of years ago and saved the crystals for a later stained glass use. Other than that, I had no idea. Then I was sitting waiting for a meeting at church and the idea hit me for the border. It's variations of blue getting darker from until it gets to the purple and red. It was fun to build as well as frustrating. I didn't really do a good job building it. I did it backwards. I knew what the middle should look like, and so I didn't make a pattern for the glass. This was the stupid part. When I tried to cut the clear glass to fit around it, there were several times I had to walk away or I was going to throw the glass across the room. I wasn't getting the curves right or the angles. It would have helped if I had, had made a pattern. Patterns are much easier to follow than winging it.

Anyway, I think it turned out nice.