What Are Your Hobbies ?

[Jlynn]

Originally Posted by Courtney

I do the stained glass using the copper foil like sherry does. Altough I'm sure she's much better than me, most people are. I'm not so hot yet, I haven't even convinced myself to try curves yet. Yeah I know, what's stained glass without curves? I do some quilting too so a lot of my stained glass has a quilt feel to it. I actually have done a few common quilt squares in stained glass. I'd really like to get pretty good one day then if we ever built a house I would love to incoperate some stuff through out it. Like I would like to have a piece above the door going from a master bedroom into the master bath, don't ask why I just think it would look really neat.

Honestly its not that hard. Ok its not the easiest thing, but it doesn't take much to get a finished product, it may just not look as good as some people can do. If you have any small community colleges around there check with them because a lot of times they do stained glass classes in the summer. I haven't taken a class yet, I grabbed a book then found out what the bare minimum was to get me started and off I went. If you have a Hobby Lobby around you they have some basic supplies. I haven't ordered anything off the internet yet though, I know www.delphiglass.com has stuff for it, and I believe you can even sign up for their mail catalog on the site too.

I'd love to try the glass fusing, I believe that's what its called. Where you use a kiln to melt the glass and you can use different forms to get different shapes. I'd also really really love to try glass blowing but highly doubt that will ever happen. I love all things glass if you can't tell.

What a great hobby!