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Port Moody SHUFFLE 2024

Deadlines are good! I booked myself in to join a soda firing at Shadbolt Centre's Vault kiln on May 22nd. So, at the beginning of May, I cleaned the red earthenware out of my wheel and started work with Plainsman H555 and Georgie's Umpqua cone 10 stoneware clay. I made my two cubic feet quota of ware, including carved bowls, jugbirds and more, and bisque-fired…

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May 26th, 2024
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Grooved jar with lid
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Soda Selection

There's always more to learn when you toy with atmospheric firing. People ask how it went and the answer is 'well 80%', often. That's good. Overall the colours looked encouraging when we opened the kiln door but my batch seems rather brown. I shall refer to my notes and make suggestions to myself to try a different flashing slip, or apply less etc. Every time…

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February 20th, 2024
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First pots set out in the sunshine
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Soda Surfaces

Once again I had the chance to join fellow potters in a firing of the Vault Kiln at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Hoping that having my name on their waiting list would earn me a chance, I had thrown some experimental pieces back in November. Lucky me, I was invited to bring my two cubic feet of ware for this firing. The pots are…

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February 18th, 2024
Read more about the article Plates and Jugs
Monique
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Plates and Jugs

On Sunday the glaze kiln was cool enough to be opened. The jugbirds I've been working on are now finished and I have a week to get them carefully wrapped so that I can take them to England with me. Meanwhile the ever-patient 'Raiders', Monique and Renée will now be able to see how their plates turned out. my flock Renée left two small triangular…

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October 3rd, 2023
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Re-fired Tea-pot 5.5" x 8.5"
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Happy Canada Day!

June has certainly been eventful and actually productive! With a significant birthday to start the month, TriCity Potters here for our June meeting/potluck, the making of pots for soda, last weekend's very successful SHUFFLE and now the opening of the soda kiln this week, I have enjoyed myself. This will be a brief blog, just to record my small collection of pots from the Vault…

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June 30th, 2023