It was a hot Summer afternoon when we gathered in Deer Lake Park to unload the Vault Kiln on Tuesday. Right away we could see that the techs had fired the kiln successfully, with even some cone 12s having started melting. We saw lots of carbon trapping and orange peel on pots on the front shelves as we waited for all participants to join us. front…
January was a very quiet month for us, mainly with dreadful weather keeping us home-bound, so I had masses of time to be making new pots. By the first week of February I had done bisque firing and was liner glazing and wadding the ware. I delivered some twenty pots to Shadbolt Centre on Feb 8th. Two days later, after everybody's pots had been loaded…
front shelves I had taken my two cubic feet of sprayed, bisqued and wadded ware to the Vault kiln on November 2nd, to join the most recent soda firing. The techs and Giovanna loaded the pots next day. Clive Tucker was at my kiln shed on the Friday to repair my electric kiln (there was corrosion!) and then he headed over to Shadbolt to help…
front shelves back shelves The vault soda kiln was turned off last Friday, after techs Linda, Jay and Cheryl finished spraying the soda in. First impressions when the kiln door was opened on Tuesday were that they got it right! Pots were still warm so we wore gloves to pass ware from one excited participant to the next. Below are closer looks at the first…
Fraser Valley Potters’ Guild invited its members to take part in a joint soda firing instead of having a Christmas Party, just like last year. Lots of people signed up so, as before, we were given a 12″ x 12″ x 8″ space to fill, with the request that we bring at least one piece that was 9″ tall or more.This was a chance to…