This was an easy one ngl...

So this week i"ve decided to try something that I've seen people in my field of art do, but I've never tried, and it's actually probably the easiest part of stained glass, but it just got a whole lot easier.

So once you have your pieces of paper to trace, usually I'd put them and trace them on the glass, one by one, and cut them off one by one. I'm honeslty not sure why this made sense in my head but it did, okay? But recently I saw an Instagram post of a lady arranging all the pieces of paper on the glass and tracing and cutting all in one go, which not only ended up saving me time, but I also got a lot less wasted glass from this strategy.

Here's a clip of her Instagram video showing the strategy:

Instagram handle: @glassyleafstudio

Now here's how I copied it. Unfortunately I don't have a Cricut, so I had to make do by holing the papers and tracing with Sharpie, but again, sooooo much less time consuming and so much less waste. Here's what my attempt looked like!

Unfortunately my camera was set up a bit off, but you can see that I set up each of my papers on the glass at the same time and traced them all in one go. Now let me explain how this wates less glass. By putting them all out at once, I can take advantage of like sides, angles, and curves to put two pieces beside eachother that fit well together. This way, the pieces of spare glass between each piece is minimal.

See you all next time!