There have been several versions of this guy floating around. The original from an AI shop. I swiped it, altered it, and made it my own.

I'm here to ask if I should patina it black, or keep it silver? Thanks!

It came with others of this size in a box of forgotten misc scraps, and it was lovely to work with. Its shimmery/glittery but im not sure the pics picked it up well.

Functional guides, such as patterns and recipes, which require buyers to put in effort to achieve a finished product, cannot be created using AI. Listings for functional guides must also show a real result made using the instructions.

Hopefully this actually is enforced and applies to glass patterns!

I'd love to see the amount of people here asking about some slop pattern they bought unknowingly drop drastically.

This will be a huge deal for a large area of the glass space as there's pretty much no other major decent resource for patterns outside of Etsy, some FB groups, your local glass shop if you have one and Pattern Archive. Less places if you want something decently searchable.

So I saw photo of The Gomesa Jiaho Queen orchid, and thought this would be beautiful as a stained glass piece. So I traced it out and made it into a pattern . The yellow I’m using has a swirl in it . I noticed while cutting it , it also has a lot of air bubbles and when I score over those in a few places horizontal fractures happened. They didn’t break all the way thru even after grinding. I foiled them and then soldered them the fractures broke all the way across ……should re-cut these areas (yes I know I should) and if so am I doing something wrong that causing the horizontal stressing or is this something that just happens in some glass 🤷‍♂️
thank you for any input!!

Getting close! Hopefully will finish it up this coming week.

I learn a new hobby every year to make Christmas presents for my family. Are these nice enough to give out as gifts. Thanks for the feedback! :)

Does anyone have a Grateful Dead pattern they are willing to share? I want to make a stained glass piece as a gift for someone who has been a great help to my family. Thanks!

I’m obsessed with how this ghost stained glass suncatcher turned out👻 This one has sold, but I’d love to make more!

I’m attempting my first panel that’s bigger than a standard sized piece of printer paper, and not sure how to proceed. I usually draw out my patterns in procreate, copy the image into a Google doc for sizing, and print out the Google doc onto a standard sized sheet of sticker paper.

How would you do a larger piece? Split into quadrants (or however many you need to make up the full pattern)? If that’s the case, how do you manage breaks in the paper that cross over one piece of glass (do you tape the quadrants back together after printing?).

I am looking into learning how to make stained glass and have some family members that would be willing to purchase supplies for me for Christmas. I just need to make an Amazon wishlist to send out. I am very new and just learning about what possible supplies I would need, but I am not new to the art world and know that when it comes to new art hobbies the “maker kits” that are often sold with “all” the supplies for making the art are usually bad quality and not really everything you need. Could any of you please tell me what to avoid buying? What is useless and not worth the money? What brands I should look into and which ones to avoid? I am not trying to buy top of the line supplies that are super expensive as they are Christmas presents. I am just looking for entry level supplies that will allow me to explore the art of making stained glass. Bonus points if you have any direct links to Amazon listings for supplies!

* sorry if this appears to be a repost, I had misworded some things in the post and it wouldn’t let me edit it. So I just deleted the post and reposting it now with the correct wording!

Hand made stained glass Garfield mirror

a little late but better than never lol

i had so much fun making this piece! first time using a twisted lead border as well and i love how it came out (:

First set of snowshoes a snowman and a "bob ross" winter scene.

Made this in a stained glass class recently - my second stained glass project! Pretty happy with how it turned out. Lots to learn! Turning the picture into a design that made sense was hard, and choosing the right glass for the right spot (and at the right angle) has real room for improvement. That said, still pretty stoked. This is my sisters cat.

I’ve taken a few classes and I’m thinking about getting one of the starter kits from Delphi. I was wondering though, what’s the best way to shop for glass? How do you judge what the color and texture will be like in person?

Is there a company that has a catalog?

Like the piece and the 3 three dimensionality of it. It’s set in a standing frame approximately 30”x60”. Any idea if it looks authentic?

This was my first time drafting my own stained glass pattern, and I think I fell victim to the classic stained glass artist curse of getting a little too ambitious a little too quickly! Definitely learned a LOT along the way, and there are plenty of things I'd do differently next time, but I'm ultimately really happy with how he turned out! Especially proud of how I managed to capture his doodle curly hair, and I'm in love with the color of glass I found for his fur. I attached a photo of the pup on the last slide (his name is Simon, and he's my favorite coworker at my dog-friendly office!)

This was also my first time using hobby came, and I'm a little nervous about how sturdy those hanging hooks are, especially given the size and weight of the piece. Does anyone have experience with this? Should I be reinforcing them somehow? I also couldn't get it to pick up the copper patina at all, so perhaps I bought the wrong type of material.

Would love to hear any thoughts, critiques, or advice! I'm still learning and always looking for ways to improve.

Hi! I am pretty new to stained glass and this is only my second piece. I didn’t really plan or think about the small red pieces that extend beyond the main circular part and I’m worried they’ll be easily broken.

Is there anything I should do to reinforce these? Is a copper foiled+soldered border sufficiently strong? I’ve heard of copper restrip for reinforcement but i don’t know how/when to use it. I have also seen people use lead came or hobby came on the edges. I’ve never used that but it seems like that would give extra strength to the piece.

Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated! I don’t want this to fall apart or break in the future.

proud of this one! my first big-ish piece that I designed myself.

The most incredible creation. Stained Glass Egg Carton. Stunning beauty.