Just a little. I haven’t got into a rhythm of making and glazing so I had a backlog of pieces to glaze. First to get finished were the stoneware pots; a “set” of four bowls, the suspect bowl from Sara’s, a tea-light holder and the jug. First off – the jug wouldn’t fit in the kiln. Bill had said that as soon as you get a kiln, you’ll need a bigger one!

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This was my first stoneware firing and the results were mixed; the tea-light holder came out as intended (triumph) but the coloured motifs in the four bowls either burnt out or became incorporated into the main glaze (disappointment). The solution may be to reglaze them as a solid colour – we’ll see. The suspect bowl, which I thought I might have got away with by fixing the cracks with paper clay, caught up with me. A good strong yellow glaze but one of the cracks persisted and the glaze was in fact not as even as it could have been. I’ve more to learn here.

Next for firing are earthenware pots; another tea-light holder, a sugar bowl and a small cylinder with a flower motif. And then back to stoneware firing for the jug.

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