The temperature has been uncomfortably low lately, even in our usually toasty apartment. The only warm place I can find is my bed, so I spent most of yesterday and today tucked up there with my notebook, reading stained-glass websites.
My favourite find by far was a photo essay by a husband-and-wife team in Germany, documenting their mission to replicate a Tiffany lamp. This particular photo below sure made me feel better about Wednesday night's blunder, although I know their mistake had almost certainly nothing to do with glass cutters veering off the true line.
I also suffered momentary panic learning that most beginners start with simple panels or mirrors, only later working their way up to lampshades. I haven't even chosen a simple 4-panel lampshade the way you're meant to when you start out. Suddenly, the words of Dave (one of the returning students in the class) are ringing unpleasantly in my mind, "Cutting is the easy part. Wait until you come to raise it up. It'll be enough to make you weep". But I'm choosing to blithely ignore this, and remember instead that Greg said not to waste time on twee little ornaments, sun-catchers, and what have you.
