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ALLISON KLINGER: On behalf of ExpertVillage.com, my name is Allison at Western Art Glass. And
in this step of our stepping-stone sequence, we're going to be talking about what to do
with your pattern after you have selected your pattern for your stepping stone, okay?
Sometimes you can have your glass already picked out. Sometimes you're going to pick
out your glass after you find your pattern. So either which way, get it copied off. You
need to get it numbered and marked, okay? This is not all going to be one color, okay?
I've got one; I'm going to do two, three, four. I'm just numbering it so I know where
the pieces go after I get them all cut apart. They only fit back together one way. Otherwise,
I'm going to be using some glass like this that has some grain to it or some life, some
fun, which means I need grain lines in here, too, so that my sun is going to be radiating
out and be really cool, vibrant and happy. Really important that your grain lines all
run the same way, okay? The sun face, I'm going to mix those up a little bit because
he is all yellow. So he's going to be out of all of these glass right here. So I want
to show some more movement to it than just that. So I'm going to mix up my grain lines
a little bit, okay? And since I'm the artist of the stepping stone, I can do whatever I
want. That's the fun part. So anyway, throw in some grain lines. From there, I'm all grained
and numbered and marked off. You also want to label your colors because with the stone
I'm doing, these are not all the same. So orange, red get them all labeled for what
color of glass they're going to be, or you can color this with colored pencils or crayons
if that makes it a little easier for you. I'm just familiar with doing this so much
I can work with the black and white. Sometimes anything can happen, so buy extra glass, just
in case, all right? So in the next segment, check it out.