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Picking Art Glass Pieces for Stained Glass Patterns

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Summary: To make a stained glass project, picking the right piece of art glass will make your pattern pop. Learn how to pick art glass pieces in this free craft video about preparing glass for stained glass patterns.

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Anna Comly Anna started creating stained glass in early 2001, learning from an expert of 15 years in the trade in Galveston. She is skilled in design and construction of... read more

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Picking Art Glass Pieces for Stained Glass Patterns

Okay, so what I've actually done is, I like to find my "perfect piece" of the glass for my particular project. And on the tips of these butterfly wings, I have this piece of glass that has not only orange and clear and white, but also yellow in it. And I started down here with putting a little bit more of the orange and white parts of the glass against either, actually opposite, there's more white here and orange there, and orange there and white there. And I wanted to incorporate a little bit more of the yellow in the tips of my butterfly's wings. So what I did is I went through and I looked and figured out which pieces that I thought might be just absolutely perfect for those spots. Some people think that this is wasting glass, it's not wasting it if you're going to use it later, I'm going to put them in mosaics. But now the tricky part will be to get these apart without breaking one of the other ones. So I'm going to separate my glass so that I'll be able to work with each piece individually. And I'm going to start by breaking off this piece, because if I was to cut this piece first, it would run into that one. So I'm going to separate this one off from the rest of my glass, just like so. And I'm also going to run another right here. I'm actually going to go through that one first. And this is going to be just to break that away from the rest so that I don't hurt any of those pieces of glass. I'm going to continue to score this one and cut it out, and then for each piece after that, I'm going to do the exact same method.

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