Oct 10, 2025
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Hot Shop 8/10
cheeky peek at the process.
Hot Shop 8/10
Hot sculpted stem experiment- turned out less of a vessel stem and more of a candlestick, but I'm still thrilled with it.
This was attempt 2, attempt 1 died when I got too complacent and neglected the moile. Living and learning!
Stuff from wednesday. Made long skinny cups, rob demoed a wide low walled cup.
Tried to make some swirly stems but it's SOO HARD!!! Especially to get everything on centre. I tried three times each more successful than the last.
Process shots yeah... By Abi
Fruits of Monday- a few first tries.
First attempt at overlaying colour - didn't get very far down the bubble. Plus, it ended up too big with three layers of glass on it so I think I'll stick to waxing my jacks to hell and coping
Don't ask what I was trying to to with that failed stem- one day I'll look back and laugh
Last week's cups + sandblasting tests. Feels like it could almost stand on its own as an artwork.
Notes from week 7! Astrid taught me blown foot and I promised to show her my failsafe punty method. Rob demoed optic mould stem in class.
Friday 19/09
Colour tests, surviving goblet, stem test. Came out of the annealer today but I didn't get a chance to sandblast the colours. I wonder how the sandblast is affected by going back in the hotbox and glory hole
Made another two cups so now I have two in each colour ! Yay!
Thur 18/09
Making colour cups! I made 4 today, two orange and one grey and blue.
I just picked them up using collar method, and they were very sticky (which felt really strange) when I was opening up the cups- perhaps I'll really have to get into overlaying.