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15 November 2007

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).
Hmm. My best recommendation is to print out a copy of this post and take it to a stained glass expert. Their designers should be able to interpret what you want.

Or am I missing the point - would you prefer doing this custom (which I think would be the way I'd do it, so I could get it just right) or would you prefer to be able to buy something ready-made?
posted by lonefrontranger 15 November | 11:38
oh duh... reading comprehension nil - you're looking to DIY this project. Forget what I just posted ^^
posted by lonefrontranger 15 November | 11:39
The peacock with the dead houseplant reminds me of my upstairs neighbor, whatever he does, they just keep dying.
posted by StickyCarpet 15 November | 13:50
Huh. Now that I look at the peacock one again, that "dead plant" thing does look odd. I had thought it was a fountain. And why do it in white? I'd change that if I were doing that panel.
posted by Orange Swan 15 November | 14:53
It was a fountain? The whole gender comment made me think it was a whopping big phallus oozing uhm... I'll shut up now
posted by dabitch 15 November | 16:20
Clearly you have to do an orange swan.
posted by dabitch 15 November | 16:22
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how 'bout this?
posted by taz 16 November | 01:00
Go with your gut instinct...when my brother and I were still speaking, I made a needlepoint of a '65 Mustang for him. The car was red on the canvas, but I switched it to dark blue (which was the color of his real-life car).
posted by brujita 16 November | 02:38
Clearly you have to do an orange swan.


Clearly!

Taz, I REALLY like that panel. It'll take some re-jigging to make it fit the proportions of the window pane, but it really is about the nicest I've seen. Thanks!!!

Brujita, I can't believe the needlepoint and cross-stitch patterns out there. Yesterday for the fun of it I searched for swan cross-stitches, and came across one for... Cameron Diaz.
posted by Orange Swan 16 November | 08:56
Let me know what dimensions you need, and I'll resize it and send you a larger version. I basically just worked it up from this one:

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posted by taz 16 November | 09:26
Wow, thanks! I'll have to take some exact measurements when I get home - I was only estimating with those measurements above.
posted by Orange Swan 16 November | 11:44
The bedroom closet window pane is 14" wide and 7" high - quite a bit bigger than my estimate! But then I was at work when I made that up.
posted by Orange Swan 16 November | 21:12
Ah! I thought your 9x4 estimate was vertical... so this actually can't really be tweaked that way. I think I saw another thing that could, though. Somewhere... I'll look.
posted by taz 16 November | 23:51
60 second science || This, in fact, all the cute you need for the day, maybe even the week.

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