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Well, I finished the brown trout fan lamp on Friday night. Here is a photo. I didn’t get the picture taken until Saturday, and general laziness (along with a really good Tom Clancy novel) delayed this post until today.

I used a stick-on eye from my husband’s fly tying materials.

It came out rather nicely, and my hubby likes it, so that is the most important thing.

The lamp now sits on my husband’s dresser where it makes a nice soft glow.

I will probably post this pattern soon, so you can make one just like it.

I covered the outer edge in lead came, so I had to use my Dremel to enlarge the opening in the fan lamp base. That Dremel is a great little tool. I highly recommend it.

Next I will be making a lamp that fits into a four-sided brass lamp shade. Selecting the glass is the hardest part of this one. So many choices!

I will also post photos of my work room soon.

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Well, the best laid plans- and all that. I had planned to start my trout fan lamp the weekend of Feb 24-25, but . . .

My kids both had some interesting (not really) virus thing, and, not wanting to be selfish, they shared it with me. So thoughtful. It was certainly not the worst thing I’ve ever had, but the worst symptom, aside from a splitting headache, was complete and total lethargy- no energy at all. It was hard to even read a book, though I managed to read about six before I felt better.

Anyway, this delayed the brown trout fan lamp. I finally started it yesterday. I have it cut out, did my grinding tonight, and I should be foiling it tomorrow. It looks pretty good. I made some changes to the pattern before I cut it out. Hopefully these are improvements.

If everything goes well, and I am happy with the results, I will post photos of the progress. Not that this is anything marvelous, or earth shaking, but I know that I enjoy seeing other people’s works in progress, so maybe someone will find this interesting.

I have some more patterns to post and more in the works. I see that the Animal Kingdom patterns are leading the field in my poll. If you read this post and you haven’t voted, please do.

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I am starting a project for my husband, Greg. He is a fly fisherman, so I have designed a brown trout fan lamp for him. If all goes well I will post photos of my progress during the project, as well as the pattern for the fan lamp.

When designing the lamp I selected ideal (in my opinion) glass for the project. However, I already have a bit of glass, so I decided that I would try to use glass I already have. I searched through my glass and found some nice glass that my husband approves, and, after all, he is the expert on trout, as well as the lamp recipient.

At any rate, do not be surprised that the pattern shows different glass selections from my finished project. The glass I already have does not have labels, so I cannot give you the exact glass that I am using. I will certainly describe the texture, and you will be able to see the color.

I should start cutting glass tonight or tomorrow, depending on whether or not we decide to watch those Netflix videos tonight.

I am working on a couple of Easter patterns now. I have a cute bunny with Easter eggs, and I may make another, too.

I have been watching the poll results. Really, people come to my site and just don’t vote! I will do my best to make patterns for those nice people who have registered their desired pattern categories. I am very pleased that two people have voted for History & Art now. I have a couple of nice patterns for that category, as well as a several for flowers, landscape, and the Animal Kingdom. I’ll see if I can get those up tonight.

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