How much work is that swan in the window? This morning as I was waiting for the bus and looking up at my house, I started thinking about how much I’d like to make a stained glass panel for the upper panel of the little window that is in my bedroom closet (in what my dad calls "the mistress room"). The panel has to be rather small (maybe 9” by 4”) so I can’t do anything too elaborate – I know I’ll wind up in a straightjacket if I have to do something with a million wee pieces. So this morning I browsed the net searching for a good pattern. And just thought I'd bore present you with a monologue about my pickiness design process.→[More:]

If I wanted the entire neighbourhood to think I was Toronto’s Good Time Girl, I would do this one.

This one is so to-die-for fabulous it made me bitterly regret being the wrong species, gender, and not having a house with a cathedral-sized window.

More seriously… this one’s nice but too elaborate. This one’s getting close to what I wanted, but it’s still too elaborate. Same goes for this one.

This one is simple enough, and I appreciate the sharply graphic quality of it, but it's somewhat too stylized for my liking. This one is perhaps too simple.

This one would probably do, although it's somewhat too elaborate.

I hate the colours in this one, but the design of the swan is very good, and I think it might be the best one for my purposes if the background were tweaked and it were done in the colourway used in this one (love that glowing orange with the greens and blues).