This might be the tallest thing I've made. If not, it's really close. The first shipment of this puzzling mold was put through the ringer during shipping and arrived broken, but the new one is perfect.
I love the shape of it. I think this might take up at least half my kiln.
So I think that the overall process of making many of the same things makes my process better, but it make kiln openings a little less fun. This kiln opening has a lot more variety than the last couple. Lots of bright springlike colors in this kiln.
I think my favorite 2 pieces are the doggy prints. A friend of mine got a new puppy in the fall and her Christmas present was puppy prints. I made two just in case one got messed up, but when I had an extra one the W and R are my puppies Willow and River. Delilah was a little wary of it but once she sniffed it she was fine. With my puppies you would have thought the clay was hot lava with how the reacted. It was funny. I actually think there is a market for these if I could figure out how to do it - probably only local.
I really like how the tree experiment came out. I think that with the white it will likely only be sellable in winter, but the speckled clay with the white with the trees came out exactly as I wanted.
Also - the last kiln opening lost the glazes somehow. Not sure how that happened, but it's been updated now if you were curious on any of the glazes.
I think my favorite 2 pieces are the doggy prints. A friend of mine got a new puppy in the fall and her Christmas present was puppy prints. I made two just in case one got messed up, but when I had an extra one the W and R are my puppies Willow and River. Delilah was a little wary of it but once she sniffed it she was fine. With my puppies you would have thought the clay was hot lava with how the reacted. It was funny. I actually think there is a market for these if I could figure out how to do it - probably only local.
I really like how the tree experiment came out. I think that with the white it will likely only be sellable in winter, but the speckled clay with the white with the trees came out exactly as I wanted.
Also - the last kiln opening lost the glazes somehow. Not sure how that happened, but it's been updated now if you were curious on any of the glazes.
Been in a puzzling mode kind of a mood. This Globe Leaf Bowl has more negative space than the ones I've done in the past. I'm starting to push the limits on it.
Now sure how well you can see it, but I also textured the inside of this one for the first time. Thinking I'll do more of a shiny glaze.
This will be the most colorful kiln opening I've had this year. I feel like the last few have been a little boring with little variation. There are some birch trees, but also some flower bowls, morrocan tile, and a gaggle of gnomes.
My two little bird baths look really cute on the top. They were meant to be earring holders, but they dried too fast before I could put the holes in them. I broke two before I decided - they are now very fancy trinket dishes.
Also in here is a gift for a friend with the puppy prints you can see on top and another one of my puppies prints. I feel like this is something I could sell locally for pet owners if I figured out the logistics.
I loved Willow as a kid. When I heard the series was coming out I made my husband watch the movie since he hadn't seen it. The series is really really different from the movie. While the movie had a broad audience, the series is definitely geared more towards a younger audience and the pacing is off.
All that said I became obsessed with the scarf/shawl/sweater(?) that the character of Dove wears. Hers has a hood which I didn't feel like I needed. I also thought that having the arms as long as they are in the series (they sometimes drag on the ground) was impractical. I really liked the idea though of a scarf that effectively has arm holes in it which make it more like a shawl/sweater/
This worked up really quickly and isn't really complicated. If you wanted the arms to be longer then you would just chain more to start and adjust the arm hole placement. This pattern uses 2 skeins of Big Let's Twist in Peacock II from Ellyn Cooper's Yarn Sonnet. Each skein is 560 of worsted yarn so if you had another worsted yarn that was about 1000 yards you could use that. I used a 5.5 mm hook.
Stitches:
ch - chain
hdc - half double crochet
fphdc - front post half double crochet
Chain 237. I am 5'3 and on me this crosses my shoulders and nearly touches the ground
Row 1: hdc in the second chain from the loop. hdc to the end
Row 2: ch 2, fphdc in each chain across
Row 3: ch 2, hdc in each chain across
Row 4: Repeat row 2
Row 5: Repeat row 3
Row 6: Repeat row 2
Row 7: Repeat row 3
Row 8: Repeat row 2
Row 9: Repeat row 3
Row 10: Repeat row 2
Row 11: ch 2, hdc in the first 76 stitches, ch 18, skip 18 stitches, hdc in the net 50 stitches, ch 18, skip 18 stitches, hdc to the end
Repeat rows 2 and 3 until you run out of yarn. I ended up with 26 rows
If I made this again I'd probably want another 500 yards of yarn to make it both longer and wider, but I'm really happy with how it came out.
As I was cutting vinyl for some mugs I had some room for "skinny things" that would fit to use the vinyl better. I decided to try out various trees that could be put around a mug. Have two mugs in my next glaze firing to see how this work.
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