Oh dear! I’m definitely cautious when I have a kiln full of big items, that’s so much work to lose at the end 😭

Will this color be too opaque and cover the crochet stitch patterns underneath? Will it smear when I glaze over it??

Oh I love this! I couldn’t agree more!

A video of me squashing a clay pot I just created on the pottery wheel. The sides have a couple of vertical tears where I pushed the crackle effect too far! Natural sound hears my metal tools rolling on the metal wheelhead.

A timelapse video showing a top down view of me squeezing liquid glazes onto a bowl I made. The glazes are in small bottles, and they run down the sides of the bowl in ROYGBIV drips, then swirl and meet in the bottom of the bowl.

Not too many secrets to keep in a craft that’s several millennia old. I certainly haven’t invented anything new in pottery

(2) After the underglaze is dried a bit with a heat gun a layer of sodium silicate goes on clear, and is also dried a bit. Finally the vase is shaped from the inside, causing the outer dried layer to crackle as it expands.

A timelapse video of a vase being thrown on the pottery wheel. It starts as a centered lump of clay, is pulled into a cylinder, is smoothed with a metal rib tool, and then bright blue underglaze is applied to the outside. (1)

Ooh that sounds fun! My heat gun worked well for these, but a blowtorch might be quicker

I’ve literally had the jar sitting on my shelf for two years! These were my very first tries, so I’m not sure what I was waiting for 😂

Your sugar jars have delightful character!

A sped up video of me shaping a clay slab into a tray that will hold farm fresh eggs on a countertop. I start by adding texture from a crochet doily, then invert the slab onto a dozen wooden eggs glued to a board and use my hands to shape it from flat to curved. Now it’s firming up. No sound.