As I mentioned yesterday, Jessie has hit her quota of bowls; 25 to be exact. Apparently (and this is all new to me since I have never worked in clay) there are still a LOT of steps involved before we can put them to such noble uses as holding cheese-puffs and feeding the dog (just kidding Jess!).
Now that they have all been thrown (made on the wheel):
1. They need to air dry until they are greenware (not really green in color [again, news to me]) at which point they are highly breakable.
2. Once they are dry, we need to carefully load them into out minivan and drive them to the ceramic studio.
3. Once at the studio they will have a "bisque firing". Despite what it sounds like this not a lay-off at the Milk-Bone plant. The bisque firing is the first time the pots will go into a kiln to really dry them out and harden them.
4. Once they are bisque'd they need to cool (for one or two days).
5. Once cooled Jess will paint the glazes on.
6. After the glazes dry the bowls will be fired again and once cooled they will be completed.
Since she has to wait for the drying process, Jessie is using the time now to start throwing some mugs. Her goal is to make 25 of them by the middle of next week. But with the holiday weekend and a mid-wife appointment in Philly on the 6th, it will be difficult at best.
Keep praying that the Lord will give her speed and bless her work!
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We will pray that all goes well with Jessie and she can get all of her work done. We had no idea how many steps were involved in ceramics!
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