{"id":1583,"date":"2017-06-10T08:08:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2017-06-10T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:11:50","slug":"getting-ready-to-glaze-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/?p=1583","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready to glaze and fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new kiln is fully hooked up and I&#8217;ve begun to dig out my bisque and resurrect my buckets of glaze. \u00a0Haven&#8217;t done a glaze firing since last September, shortly before we sold our Nelson place. \u00a0So I have quite a few pieces piled up in boxes, stored here and there &#8212; enough to begin learning how to fire the new kiln. \u00a0It will be my first time using natural gas instead of propane, and also my first time firing a &#8220;store-bought&#8221; kiln. \u00a0I&#8217;ll post results here.<\/p>\n<p>Enrollment for my summer workshops is going well. \u00a0We have a quorum for the June 17-18 workshop at City Clay, and things are looking good for the July one. \u00a0There are still some spots for next weekend though, so it&#8217;s not too late to sign up. \u00a0Details on the <a title=\"2017 Spring\/Summer Workshops at City Clay in Charlottesville\" href=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/?p=1539\">workshop page of this website<\/a>. \u00a0Registration at <a href=\"http:\/\/cityclaycville.com\">www.cityclaycville.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cely and I had a wonderful group at John Campbell Folk School &#8212; mostly beginners, with a few more experienced folks. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a small part of what they managed to make in one week. \u00a0Pretty impressive, especially considering that the majority of them were complete beginners on the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1472.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1584\" title=\"Folk School Pots April 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1472-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1472-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1472-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new kiln is fully hooked up and I&#8217;ve begun to dig out my bisque and resurrect my buckets of glaze. \u00a0Haven&#8217;t done a glaze firing since last September, shortly before we sold our Nelson place. \u00a0So I have quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/?p=1583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanrothwellpottery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}