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 kiln. For some pots I’ve taken a photo of each side, to show how they can be quite different in a soda firing.
My favourite prize from this firing is a little grooved dish. The copper red glaze inside and on the rim contrasts nicely with the corrugated outside. Sugar bowl? Olives? Nuts?
I experimented with pale blue, red and black underglazes on the left-hand yunomi. Odd? The other one has the luscious red glaze inside.
Finally, here are two normal, non-bird jugs which I always enjoy making, and a couple of comfortable lemon squeezers.
Get in touch with me if you’re interested in giving one of my pots a home.
Enjoy your long week-end holiday. Here in Port Moody we celebrate Golden Spike Days, when some folks will remember that the trans Canada Railway ended up here in 1885, only to have the tracks continue on in to Vancouver the next year! I suspect Al and I will enjoy barbecue meals in our garden and perhaps attend the firemen’s pancake breakfast one of the days. Here comes summer!
