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Just for a change from beads, I thought I'd post a picture of a piece I did about 10 years ago. It's a roundel made using tracing black with an old fashioned pen and fired in the kiln to fix the , what is essentially, powdered black glass suspended in a medium. Once fired the paint is permanent and tracing black work forms the starting point for lots of the older church windows as it is one of the pigments used to add detail to a window. The outer edge of the circle of glass was sandblasted to make it show up. The full sized pattern is placed under the glass and the tracing black, as it's name suggests, is used to trace what's underneath.

Stained glass panels in St. Peter's Church, Racton, Sussex - Panel 3.

Stained glass panels in St. Peter's Church, Racton, Sussex - Panel set 2.

Group shot of the stained glass panels in St. Peter's Church, Racton, Sussex.

This panel was made for a fourth bedroom door. My husband is an inveterate collector of books, so this is a bookroom rather than a bedroom. The design was an original I made a few years ago for a commission modified to fit small thin panels. I wanted a bit more colour so added the semicircles and cross pieces in yellow. Again this is a leaded design.

This was the first door I completed. I wanted a simple design as a back door is directly opposite with clear glass in 9 small panes leading into the garden. The glass is all Spectrum water glass and most of it was left over from another panel. This panel was leaded too.

I had accumulated lots of bits of red glass and wanted to use them up so this design appealed to me. Quite why I thought flames suitable for a bathroom, I don't know but it seems to work and I did use a lot of my odd reds.

This panel was made using a variant of a design from the Paned Expressions Studio. As with the bird panel above, I used copper foil and agonised over what colours and textures of glass to use. I knew I wanted greens but used a pale beige Muffle for the cross bars.I also used a green fractures and streamers for the inner background despite it being slightly more difficult to cut, for me anyway.

I'd always been intrigued by this design which in some way reminded me of an Egyptian motif on a tomb. I liked the flowing lines and the many colours I could use.