Living dangerously
Aug. 10th, 2020 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrUsually, when I take a special order, I'll make extras. If I have an order for four place settings in fox pattern, I'll make five, or even six. Nine sets of crab-ware, I'll make a dozen. Sooner or later, I'll sell the rest.
This time, though, I had so many commissions. And at least three were of the different-pattern-on-each sort. And while these are great fun to glaze, making extras effectively doubles the size of the project. Ten soup bowls instead of five. Eighty pieces for the forty-piece place setting. So this time, I decided to take some chances.
It helped that none of the orders were particularly time-sensitive. Deadline, whenever, or by Christmas. So if a piece or two didn't work out, I could redo them in my next firing, in a couple of months. Still got that heart-in-my-mouth feeling unloading the kiln, though.
And as it turns out, I got lucky. Everything commissioned came out fine this firing, even the forty-piece set. (That's it, below, the full tub-o-pottery.) I got most of the nine-place crab set out as well, though I'll have to fit the list four or five plates into the next kiln.
Got some really nice bits out of the big order. I'll probably set up and take more photos later, but for now, here's an arctic suite.
Now I just have to pack everything up to ship.
This time, though, I had so many commissions. And at least three were of the different-pattern-on-each sort. And while these are great fun to glaze, making extras effectively doubles the size of the project. Ten soup bowls instead of five. Eighty pieces for the forty-piece place setting. So this time, I decided to take some chances.
It helped that none of the orders were particularly time-sensitive. Deadline, whenever, or by Christmas. So if a piece or two didn't work out, I could redo them in my next firing, in a couple of months. Still got that heart-in-my-mouth feeling unloading the kiln, though.
And as it turns out, I got lucky. Everything commissioned came out fine this firing, even the forty-piece set. (That's it, below, the full tub-o-pottery.) I got most of the nine-place crab set out as well, though I'll have to fit the list four or five plates into the next kiln.
Got some really nice bits out of the big order. I'll probably set up and take more photos later, but for now, here's an arctic suite.
Now I just have to pack everything up to ship.