Studio Saturday

The plan was to fire up the little kiln for the first time on Thursday, but this has been postponed to Monday. Eventually it will be done!

Meanwhile I made some more small pots to be fired asap -

The tall one is gathered polyester organza, steamed, around a sinamay core. The others are very simple structures, with narrow strips of  metallic fabric sewn on by machine - quick and easy, but how will those bands look after firing?

At the studio, the first task was to inspect how those already dipped had dried. There seem to be some gaps and infelicities, inside and out, but very little cracking -

I'll leave some of them as is, to see what happens to the half-dipped areas. And will pay closer attention next time.

The "new" pots were ready for dipping -

and were set out for drying - they are chimneypots (to fit over tealights or other candles) rather than little vases with bottoms -