An update on my glass panel

Good morning!  Only one day of work to get through then I have 4 days free!  You've got to love a bonus bank holiday, especially in this country where they are really stingy with bank holidays.  I plan on getting my Zakka Style SAL bag finished, I'm almost there, or I would be if I didn't keep making changes!

I've dropped in today to show you some progress shots of my glass window panel.  If you want to see the beginnings of this projects, the design can be found here.  I plan on blogging about it regularly so you, and I , can see it take shape.

Before I went to Tunisia, I cut out the pieces for the rose, you can also see my design and the pieces I'd cut for the geometric corner square at the back. 

I cut out a base piece in clear glass to provide a foundation, then I cut the rose in two colours.  They were glued onto the base glass to hold their position, leaving a bit of a gap between the joining parts.  They were fired whilst I was away and on Wednesday I collected this.

Here she is all fused up.  I've just realised this is a bad photo.  You can see my sharpie lines below the glass and it looks like it's on the glass!  Ooops, I'll take another one next time!

I did a lot of grinding on Wednesday, these little squares were quite badly cut!  I also spent quite a bit of time playing jigsaw to get them in position! They're now waiting to be fired.

Along with these leaves.  The geometric squares all touch to provide a clean piece of glass, the leaves will be done as the rose was, leaving a gap between the touching pieces to provide a more bumpy, organic texture.  Wooh, listen to me "organic texture", getting a bit above my station there I think!

This final picture shows some cutting work I'm now doing.  The stem will be made up of three pieces of fused glass, the outer sections are in the two shades of green, the inner section is a grid of different colours.  I suspect I'll be cutting quite a few of these as I'm not sure of my arrangement.

Right then ladies, I'll be back at the weekend to show you my Zakka Style bag.  Here's hoping it's a warm, dry weekend, but not too hot as I feel guilty sitting inside sewing when it's hot outside, despite the fact I can't bear the heat and my milk-white skin doesn't like it either!  Have a lovely weekend everyone.