Now that my paper is done, I can pick up the sock I've been working on:

Another weekend day with sunny weather, another armload of bramble canes cut and woven into the raised vegetable beds.

The past three weekends, I have been gathering the longest, sturdiest bramble canes I could find from the hills around my house, to weave into raised beds for my garden. The result of many hours of work (interspersed with many pleasant chats with neighbours) is around four inches of height.

It's time to feed my granola habit again.

My job is frequently awesome, but today it was awesome with a side of otters.

The UoE holds the archives of the Edinburgh zoo, and the archivist cataloguing their papers is one of my direct reports. This meant that today I had a meeting at the zoo. The members' entrance is closed for the winter, so I had to leave via the gift shop. This ended about how you'd expect.

Tonight, instead of trying to reset my sleep schedule for work like a sensible person, I am asking, "just how narrow can I make a narrow rolled hem"?

Can't brain, so embroidering instead. New-to-me variation on blanket/buttonhole stitch.

Tabi sock #2 now has a heel.

Remember these guys? They survived the fire.

Glazed in Amaco Potter's Choice temmoku (bowl) and seaweed over ancient jasper (mug). I probably could have used thicker coats of both the temmoku and ancient jasper, but didn't want to risk them dripping all over my kiln shelves.

One more item ready to dry and then go into the kiln: a bowl (thrown in 2019) with archaeologish carved decoration

Spent last night and this morning refining the shape and finish of this baking dish and lid. At the moment, it's exactly the size of the inside of the oven on our wood stove. Once dried and fired, it should juuuuust fit.

And now I have bread too. Life is good.

It is a tiny victory, but I threw these pots in 2020 before the start of the pandemic. Today, I attached the little lug handles to the two stacking containers and pulled a handle for the mug, which will go on tomorrow. I'm looking forward to having enough finished pieces to fill my little kiln.

First time shaping clay since before lockdown. The wheel isn't accessible right now, so just simple slab forms: new weights for the pickling crock and the beginning of a baking dish to fit the wood fired oven. Also attempting to rehydrate some unfired pieces from 2020 to stick some handles on them.

There's no such thing as too much granola, right? This batch is about to go into the dehydrator on its hottest setting and will be breakfast for the next 2-3 months.