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Crafts Projects - Stained Glass Wreath
Note: You must know the art of creating stained glass projects and possess
the needed materials and equipment to complete this project.
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In addition to normal materials and equipment required to create stained
glass works, the following is needed:
Antique glass: dark green two sheets, each 8" x 10"; deep red-orange,
two sheets, each 8" x 10"; emerald green about 12 small pieces, orange,
about four small pieces. Opalescent glass: green-blue, about six small pieces;
apple green, about four small pieces. Cathedral glass: tortoise (dark amber) 1
sheet 8" x 1". Semi-opalescent: amber, about four small pieces. Eight
small amber nuggets. Adhesive backed copper foil sheet 5" x 12".
Muriatic acid antique solution. Two pieces of stiff wire for hanging loops, each
1 1 /2" long. Picture wire 22" long.
Directions: Enlarge pattern below by copying on paper ruled in 1"
squares. Trace half-pattern on tracing paper; complete wreath by turning
half-pattern upside down and reversing it. Use carbon to transfer wreath pattern
to cardboard; cut out pattern pieces.
For each side of wreath, cut out pieces as follows: From dark green antique
glass, cut pattern pieces 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15; from deep red-orange
antique glass, cut pattern pieces 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28; from emerald
green antique glass, cut pattern pieces 1, 4, 21, 22, 30, 32, 34, 36; from orange
antique glass, cut pattern pieces 3, 33; from green-blue opalescent glass, cut
pattern pieces 2, 31, 35; from apple green opalescent glass, cut pattern pieces
16, 18; from tortoise (dark amber) cathedral glass, cut pattern pieces 8, 10,
12, 17; from amber semi-opalescent glass, cut pattern pieces 29, 37.
Cut copper foil sheet into six pieces, each 2" x 5". For each side
of wreath, place one 2" x 5" piece of foil, adhesive side down, on top
of tortoise (dark amber) pieces 8, 10, 2. Trace pattern for pinecone design onto
tracing paper. Place pattern on foil; trace design lines with ball-point pen to
imprint on foil covered piece. Remove pattern. Use stencil knife to carefully
cut out small oval areas. Leaving a 1/4" border beyond glass edges, trim
foil around each piece; fold this 1/4" around sides; burnish foil to glass.
For each red-orange poinsettia center (#38), wrap a narrow strip of foil
around four small amber nuggets; solder nuggets over center ends of poinsettia
leaves and to each other. To give a three-dimensional effect, build up and fill
in spaces between nuggets with additional solder.
Using cotton swab, apply muriatic acid solution to solder and stenciled foil
sheet; rub with cloth until solder and foil sheet become a dull, mottled silver.
Let dry; wash with soapy water; rinse; dry again.
For hanging wreath, shape two pieces of stiff wire into small U-shaped loops.
Solder ends of loops to top back of wreath at each side, about 2" in from
inside edges. Attach each end of picture wire to one loop at each side of
wreath.
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