April 17, 2013
Goblets in blues and green All those white, porcelain pieces you saw in the last posting are now glazed and fired again. For the most part, all went well, but one nutmeg yarn bowl, the last piece to go in the kiln before I fired her up, was a trouble maker. Her glaze appeared to have jumped off, pooling on the kiln shelf and influencing a few nearby pieces, including a mug on the shelf below since some glaze dripped through the crack between the two half-shelves! Weird! When I say "pieces with personality" I mean good personalities. Seems I had a "bad bowl" in this group; although she didn't do a lot of damage, she was certainly a negative influence. Admittedly, I probably did not prepare her properly for the firing. A lesson learned -- and one, hopefully, remembered. Fired 74 pieces -- including a few refirings of earlier work. Here are the new pieces: Bottom shelf before firing...three more added above Another serving bowl with fish ...