Puffin Coaster

I've just been to a workshop at The Stained Glass Place, and am delighted with my first ever coaster!

I started with a template on paper, coaster size, to show what colours go where. Then I put one piece of 3mm glass over the template, outlined a puffin in liquid black, and coloured in the eye, part of the head and his back. Picture two is the other piece of glass, to which I added sprinkles (or piles!) of FRIT - tiny glass pieces. Some were sprinkled onto glue, but the larger areas just had glue round the outside, to stop the molten glass oozing out of the "sandwich". I left the coaster to be fired and collected the finished item 24 hours later. Emma explained the science behind fusing glass - all fascinating - it's a great workshop. Now I've seen the finished product, I would be more selective about choosing the colours to use. Watch this space - there are more courses coming up!