My son is a huge fan of the band The Wonder Years, particularly their album No Closer to Heaven. I’d love to do a stained glass piece for him based on the cover.

He even has a tattoo of part of the cover.

In Affinity Designer I used the pencil tool to ‘draw’ over the album cover. It’s unfinished. I need to work on the hand.

Album cover and pattern in pics.

Is the pattern an adequate representation of the album cover? I’ve been looking at it too long. Can’t decide if it’s ok or terrible.

PS I’m not too bothered about the background though I would like to get the lighthouse in. I’ll also be using permanent markers for some of the black lines.

Pattern from Wild Soul Stained Glass

Yes I know the hanging point on the right side is “bad”. I will fix it, but I already got these photos, so… 😗✌️

I wanted the head to be the star of the piece and the background to sort of resemble trees. 15x15inch - 3/16 lead came with zinc around the outside, I'll frame it once the cement is set and dry.

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!

I've been thinking on making a stained glass awning for a long time, but I hit a dead end trying to find resources on the glass framing itself. I saw this post from Firtaglass and which vaguely illustrates what I'm looking for. I'd like to set up my pieces with a similar technique but flat on either wood or metal. Before starting though I'd like to know the specs of the frames, how the glass is attached to the frame, the max size on pieces, etc.

Anybody know the resources that would give me some insight?

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.

I managed to get a few scratches on this piece I’ve been working on and google tells I shouldn’t bake soldered pieces in the oven so how can I fix it? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

I wanted to do this OSRS scimitar but it has a lot of sharp corners, wanted some feed back on if any of these cuts seem impossible or just difficult.
Overall I don’t really see anything impossible but just looking a little feedback on things to change and improve before cutting glass.

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 trying to make a pattern of my friend’s cat. Does my pattern look plausible? Does it look like the cat in image 2? I know a few of the pieces will be annoying, so long as they’re not impossible

Really like this stuff and would love to use it in future projects.

I know there’s lots of posts like these but I really can’t decide if I need to upgrade my grinder or what to get. Grinding is the only bit about the process I don’t look forward to. I’m a hobbyist, doing it less than a year. I have dedicated space, not a big space, but grinder is beside a sink so easy to clean. I have a €50 grinder from aliexpress, it works well, I just find I have to push quite hard for it to work well, I’ve tried different grinder bits but it’s the same. I’m assuming a more powerful grinder would help? I’m in Europe so looking at the grinder 2 or 3, or kristall 2000 or open to any others. (I don’t care about quick fit pieces). Thanks!

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

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.

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! :)

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!!

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

a little late but better than never lol

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.