How to Easily Make Stained Glass Patterns

Simple stained glass patterns can be used for stained glass projects, sun-catchers, gel stain paintings on glass and coloring pages. Simple designs work well for small pieces of glass work. The simple line drawings are an easier design to use when teaching a beginner stained glass class. Design an entire file of easy to make stained glass patterns for future use with any type of the colorful projects.

Things You'll Need

  • colored pencils
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Instructions

    • 1

      Look for pictures that you would like to use in your stained glass designs. Line drawings and coloring book pages are simple to incorporate into a design. Squares, rectangles, diamonds and circles are elegant and simple shapes to incorporate into a design.

    • 2

      Sketch the outline of your design on to white art paper. Use a ruler to keep the drawn outline line form even. Continue by drawing in the simple image or shape for the design.

    • 3

      Make three photocopies of the pattern design you have drawn. Two copies must be must be full size project patterns, one a color key and the second the line drawing copy.

    • 4

      Chose colors that you want to use and color in the second copy, or color key, of the line drawing with colored pencils.

    • 5

      Use a black marker to fill in the entire bold outline of the color code key. This is the flux and solder lines between glass segments in a design.

    • 6

      Store the two full size patterns in a file folder or manila envelope. Attach the smaller photocopy to the outside of the folder to identify which pattern is contained inside.

    • 7

      Cut the black and white full size line drawing into the small shaped segments for the glass cutting patterns when ready to make the project.

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