I know it's the middle of July, but I've started thinking about fall. I made a leaf bowl last year that turned out great and I made another one this week.
I also decided I wante dot make another piecemeal leaf bowl to sell. I love how these look. They take a bit of time, but the final result will be worth it.
Leaf vases using my clay puzzling molds.
Pumpkins of all sizes.
This is a stand of trees. I love my set, they live on my coffee table.
Also, a garden gnome just because.
I'm so excited about this. I've put up new pages that have all the examples of what I've created for various glaze companies onto their own page (vs the kiln opening blog posts). I've been wanting to do this for a while, but had an issue with the menu I was using that prevented sub menus. After much hunting and pecking (this is why I'm not a software developer any more) I found the problem and voila!
Each glaze company has their own page and then on the page I've segmented it into the different clay bodies that I use. Anywhere that I've used multiple glaze companies on the same piece, it will show up on both pages. There were a few stragglers where I didn't feel like I had enough of a particular company to make it's own page so they are all in "other".
I know that some of the pictures aren't the best (I'm working on getting better), but it's my plan to keep adding to these pages as I have new pieces coming out of the kiln.
Hope this is helpful!
As I put all the pictures on these pages I made sure that they all have links to the bigger picture, I didn't start doing this until about a year ago so some of the older posts didn't have this functionality.
I've gotten a few cucumbers from the garden, but this is the first real harvest of the season. There were 4 cucumbers, some turnips, a green pepper, banana peppers, and some spinach.
I hesitate to call this a pattern because it was so quick and simple to do, but it's exactly what I wanted and intended so I'll share. I have a lot of sleeveless dresses that I like to wear in the summer. Maybe it's just in my head, but it feels like they aren't dressy enough. I usually wear something over them to make them more work appropriate. I wanted something that dressed it up just enough, but didn't actually add any warmth. This is a cover up for when its really hot out and you just don't want to be wearing anything.
I chose a yarn that would work work my black, navy, and grey dresses the Fire in the Evening color way from Dragonfly Fibers on their Pixie fingering weight yarn. The skein is 430 yards and I used probably about 2/3 of it.
There was a pattern that I made a cardigan with a few years ago that I can't find that was the inspiration for this. I really wish I could find it because I'd love to give the woman credit. I modified it a bit and changed it into more of a poncho, but I loved the stitch. The diamonds are basically chains with single crochets. You can do any odd number of chains and then you single crochet into the middle stitch on the next row.
For this I used a 4mm hook.
Stitches:
ch - chain
sc - single crochet
I decided to use 11 for my odd number, but you could do more or less depending on how big you want your diamonds to be. For the first row you want the number of skiped stitches to be half of your odd number, but round down. So since my odd number was 11. 11 / 2 is 5.5 so I cast on in multiples of 5. When I got to 80 that felt like the right amount for it to drape nicely just above my elbows. I then added 11 stitches for the first stitch for a total of 91.
Cast on 91 stitches
Row 1: sc in the 6th stitch from the hook, * ch 11, skip 4 stitches, sc in the next stitch. *Repeat from star to the end
Row 2: chain 6, sc in the 6 stitch which is the middle of the 11, *chain 11, sc in the 6 stitch which is the middle of the 11. Repeat from * until end
Repeat row 2 until you reach your desired length. I did 20 rows. The great thing about this is that you can mostly eye what is the middle, I didn't go crazy making sure that I was always in the 6th stitch (vs the 5th or the 7th).
Make 2 panels. I sewed them together leaving 10 inches for the neck and about 8.5 inches for the arms.
One of the serving bowls is going to have to be a re-fire. I tried to pour the glaze and I knew it was too heavy when I put it on and it was. I got crawling on the front and drips on the back. Other than that I really like it.
Kiln sneak peak! I actually finished this kiln last weekend, but with the craft fair on Sunday I didn't have time to do anything with it. I did pull a couple of pieces for the fair. There were some lavendar appetizer plates to finish out sets in here. This has the rest of the custom mugs/bowls for Chaumont as well as some small glaze tests.
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