And the pièce de résistance
Sep. 11th, 2024 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrWhile I was playing hooky from Saturday Market two Saturdays ago, down in the studio glazing pots, I got a phone call from Denise. There was a message on the voicemail that I should probably hear. Somebody had been looking for me at the Market to commission a wedding present, left his name and number.
So I called him up--he was still at the Park Blocks. He and his wife had gotten a commemorative platter for their wedding 46 years ago, and he wanted something similar now. Names on the rim above, date below, one of my patterns in the middle. He needed it before they flew off to France September 29, is that possible? (Because overseas shipping is horrible expensive, as I'd learned from my shipping-to-Lithuania experience.) I directed him to the Patterns link at my website, gave him my email, and went home that evening to throw a couple of platters for my last bisque. My next-to-last bisque was dumping heat in the studio, so I draped them in plastic to keep them from drying too fast and cracking. Figured I'd pub them out in the sun on Monday to get them dry for a Tuesday firing.
Wouldn't you know, it rained that Monday. So I dried them as best I could in the studio all day Tuesday, ended up putting them in a 200° oven for a couple of hours Tuesday night, and finally started the kiln 2 am Wednesday morning. Both platters survived the bisque, so I glazed each with the pattern he chose, a pair of blue herons, then lettered the one with the better image. Here's the result.
It's cooling in the kiln right now. Fingers crossed.
So I called him up--he was still at the Park Blocks. He and his wife had gotten a commemorative platter for their wedding 46 years ago, and he wanted something similar now. Names on the rim above, date below, one of my patterns in the middle. He needed it before they flew off to France September 29, is that possible? (Because overseas shipping is horrible expensive, as I'd learned from my shipping-to-Lithuania experience.) I directed him to the Patterns link at my website, gave him my email, and went home that evening to throw a couple of platters for my last bisque. My next-to-last bisque was dumping heat in the studio, so I draped them in plastic to keep them from drying too fast and cracking. Figured I'd pub them out in the sun on Monday to get them dry for a Tuesday firing.
Wouldn't you know, it rained that Monday. So I dried them as best I could in the studio all day Tuesday, ended up putting them in a 200° oven for a couple of hours Tuesday night, and finally started the kiln 2 am Wednesday morning. Both platters survived the bisque, so I glazed each with the pattern he chose, a pair of blue herons, then lettered the one with the better image. Here's the result.
It's cooling in the kiln right now. Fingers crossed.
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Date: 2024-09-13 03:51 pm (UTC)