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The glass she gathered was again a small amount and this time Iseult rolled it in a powder that would turn the glass purple. As she had done with the stem, she gave the unshaped globule minimal shape before she sat down at the bench. This would take a good deal more consideration as she worked with it and she hesitated a little as she turned the blowpipe along the bench arms, studying the glass at the end of the pipe, trying to decide what would work best.
Because she could not wait too long, Iseult picked up the jacks and created a slight separation of a good portion of the glass from what clung to the very tip of the blowpipe. She then put those aside in favor of the tweezers, a small set that she could use to easily manipulate the glass, creating folds of petals that curled outward and down.
Carefully, and spacing out her shaping of the glass with trips to the furnace, Iseult opened the rose bloom, pulling out the petals and using the edge of the tweezers to give the bloom curves along their edges. One by one these petals came into life and Iseult completed the blossom with petals on the inside that were not completely unfurled. She thought, for a moment, of the iced roses in the ice garden and how not unlike glass those were, but she did not want to risk adding a second layer of clear glass to this, fearing it would turn out like a paperweight.
She stood and, holding the blowpipe with the rose, took the stem from the garage. Setting it carefully on the bench, Iseult maneuvered the glass rose blossom so that the vaguely flattened base connected with the tip of the stem. She severed the blossom from the blowpipe and finally she had a completed rose.
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