In between road trips and bathrooms in states of disarray, I'd also been working on a commission window for a friend of mine. We'd started talking about it last year about this time. I'd worked up a design for him by Halloween, and we'd settled on a timeline and cost in about Feb? March? It had been long enough that I thought he'd lost interest, but no, he'd just not seen my email.
There is something going on with Blogger - When I go to upload pictures, they are all coming in backwards. It sort of ruins the pace of storytelling, and also makes it really disjointed - but placing each photo one at a time would take forever.
Here we go, sort of in reverse order. :(
During this period of time, In between Moon's Moon window, I also did a bunch of little projects.
First, a hood for Erin. Dags are a pain in the butt, but here we are. This one was entirely hand sewn:
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Dags with stitched embellishments.
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The front of the hood, with the long dangly lirpipe. That was the style.
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Side view of the Hood. Based off 14th Century sources. It was good, solid work.
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I had a bunch of Travel Auction devices I needed to paint and deliver.
All of these were done and delivered by the end of July. |
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Now! Moon's Moon, in reverse order. Hrmph.
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The window!
Perhaps my most ambitious to date.
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Moon's Moon!
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Here we see the water almost done.
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Because this is in reverse order, the water is receding!
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The water is made up of two different art glasses - both of which have a super defined texture, and a lot of variation. These are pattern pieces laid out on the "light" blue (which is streaky with teal and lime green too. It sort of looks like seaweed.)
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Some of the dark blues placed.
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The pattern pieces on the "dark" blue for the water.
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The ship laid out.
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All the wee bitty pieces for the ship.
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I had glass and pattern pieces strewn all over my basement.
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I got a new tool for this project! A circle cutter. It's finicky, and works best on nice, flat, even glass. This was the test piece. Note: None of the glass for this window is nice and flat or even.
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The Very Cool opalescent glass I found for the moon.
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The pattern laid out.
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At the store, buying glass. Here's a better shot of the "light" and "dark" for the water.
The gentleman at the store saw the pattern and exclaimed, "I have it! I have your glass! Go look at the Youghiogheny section!"
I avoided that section because that is some High End Glass with High End Prices.
But he was right. I looked it it and it is the Ocean.
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Here is the frame it will eventually go into. I still need to finesse it a little, and it will need to be reinforced with bars. This will not be a light window.
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The window from the inside of Moon's Tiny House.
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The outside of Moon's Tiny House.
Soon, Moon. Soon I will finish your window.
(Luckily, this is a seasonal space, and is well closed up for the winter.
This area is not exposed to the elements, but because this tiny house moves, the window is being constructed to be removable.)
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