Winter 2018 **Print**

Features

From the Editor

Smiles, Everyone
by Delynn Ellis
Managing Editor Delynn Ellis reminds readers how rewarding it is to finish a piece of glass art after all of the cutting, fusing, soldering, grinding, and painting involved in its creation. It’s also good for glass enthusiasts to try crossover techniques so they can expand their creative abilities in glass.

Ocean Voyager
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Leslie Gibbs
Photography by Jon Gibbs
An 18" round stained glass panel featuring a sea turtle created using a turtle bevel cluster. Glass gems and nuggets are added to create bubble accents, and the sea background is enhanced with the use of wispy iridescent and ripple glasses. This project was constructed using the copper foil technique.

Tea Bridge Winter Fantasy
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Chantal Paré
An 11" x 13‑1/4" painted stained glass panel featuring the iconic Tea Bridge at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California. Stencil black glass paint, a matte layer, and pretinned copper wire add detail to the background pieces of float glass. This project was constructed using the copper foil technique.

Llamas on Trend
Design by Jean Beaulieu, Text by Delynn Ellis
An oval stained glass panel featuring a llama design, a decorating theme that has become a very popular motif for home decor items and clothing. The design was created by Jean Beaulieu especially for Glass Patterns Quarterly. This project was constructed using the copper foil technique.

Mama’s Love
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Glenda Ferguson
Photography by Kelly Wilkerson and Phyllis Gleason
A 16‑1/2" x 48" stained glass panel depicting the love of a mother giraffe for her baby. Tips are offered for cutting, foiling, and soldering the glass pieces, applying black patina to bring out the design lines, and applying polish for a shiny finish. This project was constructed using the copper foil technique.

Coral Bowl
A Decorative, Functional Beauty
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Cristina Schnellboegl
An 8" freeform bowl made with strips of black opaque fusible sheet glass arranged in the shape of coral branches and full fused together. The glass is decorated with Glass-Glo Lusters, fired a second time, and finally slumped into the shape of a decorative bowl. Firing schedules are included.

Winter Blanket
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Lori Hudson
A 9" x 9" decorative wall hanging with various shades of blue and white. The look of woven plaid material is created by tack-fusing four layers of stringers together. Fiberboard and scraps of fiber blanket are arranged to create a hill-like design for slumping the piece. Firing schedules are included.

Pacific Coast Cove
Design by Aanraku Glass Studios, Text by Darlene Welch
A 30" x 22" stained glass panel featuring a scene from California’s Pacific Coast Highway. Known for its scenic drives, its rugged mountain coves and the sun’s reflection in ocean waters are captured in shades of green, blue, and orange-red wispy and opal glasses. This project was constructed using the copper foil technique.

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Happy Holiday Snow People
Design by Marianne Crivellaro, Text by Darlene Welch
A freeform stained glass panel featuring two snow people dressed in their finest. Careful selection of colors and the grain direction of the glass adds to the realism of the piece. The eyes, buttons, and those big smiles can be added using black glass paint. This project was constructed using the copper foil technique.

Lion
Design by Jean Beaulieu, Text by Darlene Welch
A 12" x 12" stained glass design featuring the majesty and power of the lion. Careful grain selection in the amber and light brown glasses adds realism to the mane. Black glass or glass paint can be used to add the facial details. This project was constructed using the copper foil technique.

Inspiring Fused Tray
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Erica Biery Collins
A 15‑1/2" x 5‑1/4" three-section serving tray created from 96 COE glass. Three sayings are traced onto the glass section with black paint, and complementary colors of scrap are crushed into frit to decorate the glass. The piece is fired to a full fuse, then slumped in a three-section mold. Firing schedules are included.

Oscar and Kayleigh
High-Fire Vitreous Enamel Fused Glass Pendant
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Pat Wilde
A 1‑3/4" x 1‑1/2" pendant featuring Kayleigh and her cuddly cat Oscar. The design is traced onto the pendant blank with transfer paper, then painted. Facial details are added with red and sky blue enamels before adding snowflakes to the scene, which is fired to set the design. Firing schedules are included.

Crow on a Branch
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Roz Stanton
An 11‑1/2" circular design colored with alcohol inks featuring a crow perched amid branches and holly berries. Fiber blanket and stainless steel embossing elements are used with the traced circle to create the design. Firing schedules are included for fusing the clear disks and a bonus dragonfly design created from the glass scraps.

Memories of Whidbey Island: Blue Heron
An Introduction to Screen Print Techniques and Fused Glass
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Dana Worley
A 9" circular design created by using a photograph taken of a heron at Whidbey Island to make a screen print for adding the heron and rocky background to the glass. Dimension is added to the design with coarse and medium frit and glass pebbles. Full fuse and tack fuse schedules are included.

Stand-Up Elephant
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Wesley R. Wong
A three-dimensional, freestanding elephant created with 96 COE glass. Two elephant bodies are cut and additional body details, including the ears, eyes, and tail, are added to each body. The elephant halves receive a contour fusing before being joined with epoxy. A fusing schedule is included.

Mini Button Bicycle
Design, Fabrication, and Text by Susan McGarry
A freeform mini bicycle made with molded glass buttons and simple wire wrapping. The size of the bicycle depends on the mold chosen, and smaller pieces can be made into a pendant or barrette. Button molds are filled with scrap glass and fused. Instructions are included for forming the wire body.

What’s New
by Darlene Welch
Information on the latest in books and patterns plus new glass and tools for hot, warm, and cold glass artists and hobbyists. This is the perfect place to keep up with the innovations that will make working in glass easier and more enjoyable.

Kiln Corner
Seven Ways to Fuse Glass on a Budget
by Arnold Howard
Suggestions for ways to make frit from colored glass bottles, reusing cracked or bubbled fused pieces, saving even the tiniest scraps of dichroic glass, and exploring the use of float glass.

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