Use free stained glass patterns and design ideas for crafting your own stained glass suncatchers, lampshades, panels, windows and candle holders. It can be both artistically rewarding or even profitable, depending on your inclinations. Creations made from free stained glass patterns will enhance your home or garden, and make great gifts for family and friends. Free stained glass patterns are also useful for making small projects such as suncatchers and candleholders, or larger project like panel lamps and full windows. They can be easily adapted for other crafts, and easily be adapted into: patterns. They can be a fun substitute for children's coloring books! For quilt or stepping stone patterns, some enlargement or simplification may be necessary.
Many enjoy digitizing the stained glass patterns and for machine embroidery using the colored thumbnails as a template. Online free stained glass patterns are especially useful because they can be printed to the size that you desire using standard computer graphics programs - you don't have to scan them, it's already done for you. You don't have to worry about destroying your free stained glass patterns while using them, you can easily print a fresh new copy everytime! Please read the page before printing, especially for the 3D projects such as the lamp shades, clocks, stepping stones and boxes. Some printers or programs scale images when printing, resulting in the being printed too large or too small, depending on the situation. These programs may be useful to enlarge a panel to fit your window dimensions. Also, some programs do not print to the same size as the original scan of the pattern.
Many stained glass pattern books are available from online bookstores, but you'll find the greatest variety from your local stained glass supplier. They are more likely to carry small-run, specialty and even out-of-print gems than even the largest book outlet. Another advantage of purchasing from your local supplier is that you can browse the pattern book's pages, something you can't usually do online. In this regard, online patterns mimick in-person shopping, because you can see them all with fairly good detail. Just a word of warning about 'stained glass coloring books'; they are often only meant for coloring, and require considerable changes to become a useable stained glass pattern. and designs on my site are different from the pdf patterns posted by stained glass suppliers wishing to attract customers.
- They are pen and ink drawings and designs with little or no digital processing.
- I sincerely believe that a hand-drawn stained glass pattern gives more convincing, natural-looking results than those that are made digitally.
- There is a certain quality that the hand can achieve, but I have set up this website to provide the visitors with easy navigation.
- However, this limits the number of patterns I am able to feature within this format, and I now consider Chantal's Stained Glass to be full.
- All my most recent stained glass patterns are now added to my new, similar website page, you will find that I continue to list the new patterns on this website, even though they are in fact posted on my new site (identifiable with a black background, and a different logo).
You will find patterns and designs that may be inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mondrian, art nouveau, flowers (floral), fish, bird as well as in Celtic, traditional, oriental, prairie or medieval traditions. Look for the many oval, hexagon or circle framed stained glass patterns. Also, you will find patterns not only for suncatchers or small beginner panels. Many of the patterns offered are for crafting high-end elaborate lampshades, but some of the lampshades are simple enough for beginners. Designs for special projects include tissue box covers (tissue cozies), mirrors, window corners, candleholders, sconces, stained glass boxes, clock faces, glass wreaths, mirrors, photo frames and even full size windows. The most ambitious stained glass pattern is the 'Wisteria and Chickadees' window, with over 1500 pieces (I have made a smaller oval with fewer pieces containing the same design elements, also).
If you are looking for I'm often asked, why do you do it? One advantage of publishing free stained glass patterns online is I don't need to worry about the marketing and material constraints of publishing. I am free to produce patterns regardless of their marketability. I have the freedom to follow my inspiration and draw any I've also been asked how I decide whether a pattern is for free or for sale. I don't know! It's just a gut feeling, almost a coin-flipping decision. I have received so many grateful letters from every corner of the world thanking me for the free patterns because they are expensive or difficult to obtain outside of North America, you can say that keeps me going. Not to mention how I love to receive photographs of completed projects, or to see people using the termpl to make.
