| hanau |
09-14-2006 09:16 PM |
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Originally Posted by Courtney
I do the stained glass using the copper foil like sherry does. Altough I'm sure she's much better than me, most people are. I'm not so hot yet, I haven't even convinced myself to try curves yet. Yeah I know, what's stained glass without curves? I do some quilting too so a lot of my stained glass has a quilt feel to it. I actually have done a few common quilt squares in stained glass. I'd really like to get pretty good one day then if we ever built a house I would love to incoperate some stuff through out it. Like I would like to have a piece above the door going from a master bedroom into the master bath, don't ask why I just think it would look really neat.
Honestly its not that hard. Ok its not the easiest thing, but it doesn't take much to get a finished product, it may just not look as good as some people can do. If you have any small community colleges around there check with them because a lot of times they do stained glass classes in the summer. I haven't taken a class yet, I grabbed a book then found out what the bare minimum was to get me started and off I went. If you have a Hobby Lobby around you they have some basic supplies. I haven't ordered anything off the internet yet though, I know www.delphiglass.com has stuff for it, and I believe you can even sign up for their mail catalog on the site too.
I'd love to try the glass fusing, I believe that's what its called. Where you use a kiln to melt the glass and you can use different forms to get different shapes. I'd also really really love to try glass blowing but highly doubt that will ever happen. I love all things glass if you can't tell.
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i really like the idea of making stain glass .My daughter in law's mother is into stained glass.She makes some of the most beautiful things.But she has no desire to share some info with me.I got started about 2 or 3 years ago to really like to get into working with glass,but didn't even find a book on the subject.Off all the craft books on the market ,i never found on.I wen't by Hobby Lobby a while back and they had several panels of diffrent colors of glass for sale and a glass cutter but they didn't even sale an instructional booklet much less a real book.I think the idea of you incorperating some stain glass panels in your new house ,whenever you are ready to buid, will look really great .I would love that too,exept i am not getting to build a new house like you.I would have to put them in the house i am living in . Boy,would i have to learn a lot to see this happening.But why not ,everyone has to start some time.I would also love to have a kiln to melt glass,but i guess they are very expensive,if you want a good size one.Yea,i like a lot of diffrent kinds of crafts,but working with glass i really want to learn and get in too .I don't know about blowing glass,that requiers a lot of space and equipment from what i seen on craft showe's .Many years ago i was living in okinawa ,japan.We were stationed there with the army.While there i got to go to a place where they blew glass.Boy was it hot ,but facinating.I bought a lot of stoff from them ,encluding diffrent colored glass grapes.I still have those, all the other stoff is gone.don't remember what happend to it all.But it was very nice stoff and it was facinating to watch them blowe it.They were very good at it |
