Thursday, August 31, 2006

My rabbit dawg!

My big bad huntin' dawg with his bunny...

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Pit-fire grooviness

Yesterday, a beautiful summer morning found about 30 of us gathered ay Jill's house to bury our pottery in giant metal containers filled with wood, horse dung, charcoal, rock salt, copper sulfate, and anything else that would burn. We let them burn for a few hours while some of us swam, some of us knitted, and we all ate great food and played with the dogs, Duke and Frank.

Uncovering was very exciting, I had no idea what to expect...

I fired a bowl and a vase, and this is what they looked like after cleaning off in the lake...
The vase was wrapped in seaweed and banana peel, then newspaper, with lots of copper wire holding it all on. I'm really happy with the colours I got, lots of red and silver, and a flash or two of creamy yellow...



The bowl was painted in blue slip and I didn't think I'd get so much red, but I'm very pleasantly surprised. It cracked when I dunked it in the lake, but I don't care...
Peace, and happy knitting, pottery-ing and spinning,
m.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

I love unloading the kiln!

The kiln spit out lots o' pots this morning...
(all pottery is fired at cone 10) scgraffito bowl and vase. (teal porcelain slip and green ice glaze)

this is my celedaon blue glaze over a cobalt slip. it's not perfect yet, but getting close to the colour I want. Right vase is mishima and left one is scgraffito.


2 more mishima vases with teal porcelain slip and green ice glaze.

Left vase scgraffito, right vase mishima, both done with a cobalt slip and green ice glaze.

finished modified jaywalker in Covelite STR

I think this colour is Olive Garden(?) STR and the pattern is Child's First Sock in Shell Pattern from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush. (and yes, it's modified, I can't seem to stop myself from messing with patterns...)

happy knitting, spinning, and potting,
me