Reading Patterns for Stained Glass

Written By Kim Joy

You are about to lay your pattern pieces onto your glass, how are you going to lay them oput?

Here are a few sugguestions:

1) leave a trail to be able to cut difficult or curved pieces.

2) Grain of glass to match leaves and flower petals, feathers or clouds… you get the idea- you don’t want some going up and down and others going side to side.

3) leave glass behind a curve cut to help you, after the curve is cut then cut the excess off the opposite side. If you cut the outside curve first when you cut the inside curve it is more likely to break incorrectly.

4) try to budget glass- do not leave lots of unneeded space between cuts or put a pattern piece in the middle of the glass. You paid for the glass… save as much as possible for future projects.

Kim Joy

Kim Steinmuller Joy has been a stained glass artist and teacher since 1982. Most of her pieces are in the traditional style and starting to experiment to incorporate materials not usually found in the medium. She believes that through her pieces she can grow and learn more about the world around her and where she came from. She hopes that her work will inspire and encourage others in their artistic endeavors. She loves working with commissions that allows her to create one of kind pieces for the commissioner.

She belongs to Stained Glass Association of America and National Capital Art Glass Guild. Her work can be found at the Community Council of the Arts in Kinston NC, Arts Council of Wayne County Goldsboro, NC, and Wilson Arts in Wilson, NC. She teaches Nash Community College Nashville, NC, Wilson Community College Wilson NC. Her works are in private collections worldwide.

Kim Steinmuller Joy was raised in upstate New York and now lives and works in Wilson, NC.

https://www.kimsjoy.com
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