For a good cause...

I got a call from Julie at Great Ideas last week to see if I would be interested in helping out with a project she is involved in.  Somebody she knows has a child who got sick and is not recovering the way they had hoped.  From what I understand, the community is coming together to redo this teenagers room for her.  My first thought was, perfect timing.  I have Brian, a student from  Graphic Imaging Technology program and the LISD TECH Center, with me for a few weeks.  He is in the Graphic Imaging Technology class and picks up very quickly.

So, I asked him if he would be willing to work on this project, and he said yes.  Together we looked at patterns and decided on this one.  We made a few variations to fit our design.  I showed Brian how to scan the image into my glass pattern program, use the auto trace command so we wouldn't have to draw a pattern from scratch.  Then he was able to take the tracing, clean up the lines, and we had the pattern printed out in duplicate.

From there, we started looking at glass.  They wanted the window to be obscure on the bottom and lighter on the top for privacy purposes.  We used a lot of squirly shaped glass globs because they will let light in but you won't be able to see through them.  Browns will be at the bottom and the further up we go, the more we will add golds and ambers.  We are trying to work with the colors of her room.

So, today Brian was foiling globs and bevels, altering the pattern where needed, discussing glass selections, and cutting the duplicate pattern to get ready for tomorrow.  So far so good, don't you think?


Pat Deere

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