I'm using more clay so I decided to bite the bullet and buy 1,000 pounds once instead of two orders 6 months apart of 500 so that I could get the discount. I wasn't prepared for how many boxes 1,000 pounds is. We brought it all inside so it wasn't sitting in the driveway, but I'm taking it down to the basement in 1 box increments when I'm going downstairs. It's going to take a while.

This vase is even more gorgeous in person than the picture shows. It's a little over two feet tall. I love it so much. The rhubarb leaf is unglazed because I'm going to treat that with Magic Metallics copper - stay tuned for that.

I had some leaves and stars that have come off my trees that I'll have to glue back on.

This Friday - Sunday I will be at the Howard County Craft Spectacular - if you're local I'd love to see you there. I will have some of these trees with me as well as many other things.

Laguna 60 Kentucky Mudworks Hydra x2, Mayco light flux sweeps, 2167 clear all over	Laguna 60
Opulence Emerald x3 Mayco Dandelion x2	Laguna 60 Opulence Emerald x3 Mayco Dandelion x2
Opulence Emerald x3 Mayco Dandelion x2	Clayscapes Garden Green

Not a ton of things in this kiln because in here is the BIGGEST vase I've ever made and a GIANT rhubarb bird bath. I'm going to use the vase as the base for the bird bath. I'm really excited with how the vase looks. It's glazed the same way I did a much smaller vase a few months ago. The trees also came out really well. Hoping the rhubarb didn't crack - that's the only thing you can't see.

I've had this placemat for months and just hadn't found the right time to use it. I saw a video last week about a mandala wall hanging so I had it on the brain. I love how this turned out. Initially I was going to cut it as a circle, but decided to trace out the edging pattern. Fingers crossed I don't knock off any of the points before it's bisqued.

I know it's been a while since I've glazed, but I really just needed to make for a while. Now that I've gotten a good pile up of things there should be quite a few glaze kilns coming soon.

Next week is the Howard County Craft Spectacular November 3-5th at the Howard County Fairgrounds. I hope to see you there!

I started this sweater as I was recovering from surgery so I completely failed at writing things down. This got interesting as I tried to recreate the two front pannels from the back panel. It also became clear that I was going to need more yarn than the two Gradient Sets I had from Miss Babs. So in the middle I had to order more yarn, and learn that they were out of stock for that gradient set (Vineyard). By some miracle they had a skein of the darkest and the lightest color in the gradient set so I went with that.


The front has two granny rectangles. I had never made a granny rectangle before. I started it the same way as I would have with a square and this particular pattern started with a circle. Then when it came to make it into a square - I made sure it had 2 long sides and two short sides when I divided up the circle. As I continued it became clear (should have thought of this sooner) that the rectangles would get too wide for the front. To account for this I made the long sides single crochet while continuing the pattern on the short sides. Since I wasn't sure exactly how much yarn it would take, I ended up doing a color at a time on each rectangle building them simultaneously. More than a few times I had to frog rows if I want too big and couldn't match it on the other side.




I had intended to make the sleeves gradient as well, but since I didn't have enough yarn to do so they are only a gradient at the wrist.




I knew that the back wasn't big enough having used the entire gradient set for it so I supplemented by using the darkest color to make it bigger.




Despite having gotten another full skein of the darkest color - I could not finish the final row of edging with it and had to supplement. I'm happy with it, but it was definitely a labor of love to get this finished.

I keep expanding my camping series. This is my first camping platter. I started with the fire in the middle and then went with the collage. I think if I make another I'll do it on the outside rim, but I do really like the collage effect. I have so many ideas in my head that I have to find the balance between adding more to specific series or adding more series or just adding some one off things.

This is that constant pull I see where "real" artists have a cohesive collection vs I get so many comments on my booth that people love how different my pottery is from other potters.