I threw a bunch of small cups today to use at the studio open house on December 4th and 5th. I will serve a hot drink in it.
I had great experience when I visited the Craft People just outside Woodstock, NY last fall, who carries my work. We had great time with Rudy and Mary. The store carries vast variety of potteries in one of their building, and otehr ctaft items over others. If you are near Woodstock, NY, I highly recommend to stop by. Anyway, they served a hot apple sider with sprinckle of cinamon with slice of lemon in Rudy’s handmade Demitasse, that I was thinking today.
I peeked the kiln yesterday, and came home depressed. I saw bad crawling, and the bottom looked oxidized. This have been the pattern last two years.
With my great surprise, I just lost three pieces with crawling, that I saw yesterday. Reduction, reduction and reduction. Bottom was lightly reduced, but reduced. This is the second time a whole kiln reduced in three years. Last time was in June, but I could not reproduce the effect then.
Firing a kiln has not been fun for a while. I became addicted to the pottery after watching the flame dance in the kiln. It was magical feeling, and just fascinating to watch the edge of pottery starts to melt. Last couple years, opening the kiln was not pleasant. 80%-85% of pottery came out of each kiln beautiful. But that 10 to 15% of loss was big problem for me. I threw the pottery knowing that is placed at the bottom shelves for oxidation. Firing kiln was not fun recently. More I changed the setting, the deeper the problem goes. Just frustrating. Now I got the good firing! I hope this new setting brings me back the fun of firing.
Firing is done. Gorgeous sunset today.
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