On with the window.

Olidoki, enough fun, back to the serious business of building windows. The sweet pea transom light is now going to be fitted inside the glass pane already there and I have a paper template the exact size and shape of the sight size. There have been a few alterations to the original cartoon and the number centre piece is finished (painted and copper foiled), so I decided to start again and re-draw the cartoon. 

The easiest way to start this is to treat it as a re-size project, in other words what we would do to fit a stained glass panel into a different size window to that it was originally built for. To start, we draw up the tight size box, centre the X and Y axis and place the piece correctly over it. We then draw its outline and finish by drawing the rest of the design around it. 

With the design complete we now have to draw in the cut line; for this I use a 2mm wide felt pen. The heart of the lead came is about this wide and you need to allow for this when cutting the glass so that it will all fit together. We start with the border lead because everything else will butt up to it. Using 12mm lead for this design, we draw both sides and the 2mm heart, I then check it all with a short piece to make sure it is spot on, then go over all the other lines to complete the working cartoon. Then it's over to the cutting table and away we go. Simples.