Project - 16" Poppy Lampshade - Cutting and Grinding

In the past, I've done both dome lamps and cone lamps, since this is a cone lamp, the fitting will normally be tighter, so in order for me to do less soldering, I've taken a hint from a fellow stained glass artist, who photocopies her patterns to be smaller, normally 95-97% of actual size.  I'm err'ed on the side of caution and have photocopied to 97%.  This will leave me with a margin of error to be smaller, I may have to grind a bit more, but it's better than having solder lines to be too large.

Cut and ground the leaves first.  I organized them into the big leaves first, then cut the pieces off --  this was a time saver.

Had problems with selecting the parts of the background to use.  I decided to do a little sample first to see how the colours meld together.  Looking OK, still not sure of the background.

Did more… take a look at the background now…

it works beautifully.  Here is a panel, with the borders.

At this point, Ed came to take a look and since it's three repeats, we played around with moving the leaves, centres and flowers around to optimize on the flow and colours together.