Patchwork Mouse

Made--and picked up today--two more fused glass coasters. These don't have feet, because the blade of my knife gets caught under the first batch; I finally figured out that that's how I kept spilling my entire glass of milk.

I also started a double-sided fleece vest, which I was seized with a desire to make, last week.

A whole bunch of fused glass last night:

two more coasters (total of four this fall)
night sky plate
8" trivet
business card holder
night light
pair of earrings
eight pendants

Most of the jewelry will eventually be Christmas presents.

Corning Museum of Glass, five possible projects (plus one):

Glass-blowing (again): Pumpkin--orange with a few red spots. I like it!

Fusing (again): Clock. Okay, two clocks.
First: night sky with Milky Way (very successful) and Orion (should have done white stars, not blue with yellow shoulder like the online pictures), with green face (red or yellow would have been better). Good but could be better.
Second: Calico cat, as planned for a bowl. Eyes on face, using frit worked well. Orange frit a bit lighter than orange chunks, but that's minor. I like it!

Glassforming: Flower--white with blue edges and green stem. I like it!

Flameworking: Pendant--white base with black and red swirls. (Should I have stuck with the blues and purple?) The most hands-on of all the projects, and the most satisfying to do. I like it!

Sandblasting: Drinking glass--sea creatures around the top edge, then a line around and vertical lines in the ripples. I wanted cats and/or rabbits, but they didn't have those stickers. (Almost wishing I'd done a bowl instead.) I like it!

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New glass (fusing) projects that I'll probably never do: a set of astronomical bowls--black background, white stars--Big Dipper, Orion (again, better), plus two out of Milky Way (again), Pleiades, crescent moon.

The official project for the last glass fusing class was jewelry. They had really cool dichroic glass and montefiore pieces. But they had also gotten in some gorgeous swirly glass, so I opted to make a napkin-holder out of the swirly blue. I finished that way early, so I also made a bunch of pendants to give as Christmas presents. (I had to pay separately for those, because they were extra.) Two to three weeks before I get them back. There's a couple that I'm not sure of; depending on how they come out, I may make a replacement or two, using the specific ideas that I didn't develop until too late.

I'm also refining my other ideas. That will depend in part on continued availability--or not--of some of the swirly glass.

Gar! Since the first glass fusing class on Thursday, my mind is overflowing with projects I'd like to make. They have square bases and circles, of varying sizes. At least some of them can be made into plates and bowls. I don't know if they have colored bases, or if those have to be clear. [Edit: they have clear, white, and black.]

I'd love a set of four dessert plates:
quilt block(s)
pieced sailboat
teddy bear
dolphin? (I'm really picturing this as a bowl, but a plate would work, too)
cat?? (maybe pieced)
"stained glass" (pattern to be decided)
[I know that's more than four.]

Or bowls:
dolphin (I'm picturing this white on dark blue, or the other way around)
Plus some of the following if I'm making a set:
teddy bear
cat
sailboat
"stained glass"

Or do I want to make some as Christmas presents?
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I'll calm down later. Really.