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Dion Dillon of Djday’s Stained Glass in Tyrone stands with the custom 6-foot by 2-foot window panel he completed for a church. The process — after delays due to COVID — took two years.

Dion Dillon of Djday’s Stained Glass in Tyrone works on soldering the pieces of glass in one of his largest stained-glass pieces to date — a church window.

Dion Dillon of Djday’s Stained Glass in Tyrone stands with the custom 6-foot by 2-foot window panel he completed for a church. The process — after delays due to COVID — took two years.

Dion Dillon of Djday’s Stained Glass in Tyrone works on soldering the pieces of glass in one of his largest stained-glass pieces to date — a church window.

Just ahead of Easter, local artists were thrilled to present a finished stained-glass piece to Woodbury Church of the Brethren in Woodbury, Pa.

Dion Dillon and CJ Ray of Djday’s Stained Glass in Tyrone completed the commissioned piece this spring after approximately two years. Most of the delays, they said, were due to COVID restrictions during that time that made it difficult to hand select the glass.

The duo prefers to travel in person to out-of-state glass companies to see the panels and find the best matching colors and patterns for specific art pieces like the 6-foot by 2-foot window.

It was their first stained glass window of this size, said Dillon. Both working full-time jobs, glasswork is a part-time job and hobby they fit into their evenings. They have completed other custom orders over the years, and other window panels — but this is the first project of this magnitude other than repairs and restorations made on the same scale.

Work started at the end of 2019, and what should have taken an estimated six to eight months ended up taking two and a half years.

“I was thrilled to death in the end,” said Dillon. “It’s the first stained glass window they have.”

The glass work pictures a fish in a stream below an altar with wheat, bread, a plate and chalice. Above hangs a cross and grapevine with beautiful golden sunrays in the background.

Approximately 12 sheets of glass were used in the window to create specific flows — for example, certain pieces from three or four sheets of blue glass were cut in such a way to create the water of the river. Specific pieces of yellow sheets were cut to create the likeness of the rays of sun.

“I had to make sure the grain of the glass was going out like a sunburst,” said Dillon.

“That in itself is a challenging process,” Ray added. “[In] a piece of glass, there are imperfections you have to work around.”

Each individually cut piece of glass has to be outlined with foil by hand, and then soldered together.

Dillon said he believes someone from the church congregation picked up their business card at a craft show, and that is how they were ultimately commissioned for the work.

An elementary school teacher local to Woodbury drew up an idea of the elements the church wanted in the window, then Dillon and Ray turned those ideas into a pattern they could work with, chose colors and glass, and cut pieces including the tiny individual ovals to create the wheat grain.

“We couldn’t do exactly what they wanted, but we took all of the elements and put them into the panel,” explained Dillion and Ray.

The interior window will hang between the vestibule and the sanctuary, coming into the church. It was not confirmed if the piece has yet been installed.

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