It's the third class, and I am getting a little better and faster at cutting. I still manage to stuff up my eighth and ninth pieces, though. This is the eighth piece, which split in a perfect (but unwanted) curve right down the middle when I tried to break it off at the score line. Greg came to watch me cut the tenth piece, to see what I was doing wrong. He noted that I tend to veer the cutter towards the left, instead of scoring a true, straight line. Fortunately, I have enough of the orange to get the ten required pieces. The others say Olaf has no faith in our cutting skills and always gives us a little extra. What a good thing!
Cutting out the green pieces goes a lot better. I get through all ten pieces without making any mistakes. I even have heaps left over.
But what's this? It's my very first flesh wound from a piece of practice glass I was using to bolster the small green pieces for scoring. Everything was going so well that I momentarily forgot I was handling glass and grabbed at the jagged edge as if it was a sheet of paper. I just wash the glass out of the cut and stick a plaster on. I'm feeling quite brave, especially as Greg says he's had students suffering tinier cuts than mine who have had to sit on the ground and breathe to keep calm. Teehee.
Anyway, more excitement next Wednesday when I begin to cut out curvy pieces. Oh help.
