Thanks for watching the whole series. Its great to follow a project from start to finish. Do send me pictures if you make your own version. Website address is in the description. 😊
Thanks so much once again, Sarah. I am definitely going to follow in your footsteps and make at least one of those seedheads to put in my wild garden here in Iceland. Yours look amazing, my favorite is the largest one, because I love the finish on that. Take good care of yourself.
Thanks Sue - I have a flat diamond grinder which I used from my stained glass days. I also use a dremel for smaller and more accurate grinding always with water! Great to have you along 😁
Thank you so much for sharing such a great lesson on making these beauties! Especially the kiln opening. You’re so sweet to share all this, and your poppies are beautiful!!! I’m looking forward to making some!
Very nice! Mine is still waiting to go through the final glaze fire. Love the ones with beaded ridges. Now I will have to make a beaded sprig mold, so I can make another poppy head! :0) Thank you for sharing Sarah! I love your videos!
I absolutely love your work and as well the fact that you share your knowledge and skill with everyone. I love the way you teach, it’s so clear and it makes it so much easier to follow. If it weren’t for the dreaded COVID I would love to sign up for a workshop...Bravo
Love the shiny green glass. Thanks for the demo with the hammer and the stuck cookies. I hope you’ll keep going with your demos once lockdown is loosened....I’ve just done my first glaze firing in my new mini kiln like yours and there is a quarter inch black spot on one of my kiln shelves and a corresponding spot on the underside of one of my cookies. I don’t know if it’s glaze or a contaminant in the clay used to make the cookie. Should I dremel the whole depth of the black spot out of the shelf or should I just level it off? I didn’t use kiln wash. Maybe I should have. I heard that glaze drips eat their way through shelves - yikes! But thinking if I keep dremelling I’ll make a hole in the shelf myself. Thanks in advance if you can advise me 😘 from Barbara in Edinburgh
Hi Barbara- not sure what to recommend. Can you send me a picture via email (see website www.thepotterycorner.co.uk) so I can see what it is. Don't recommend demeaning. Did you do a test firing with the kiln empty?? Send me a picture and I'll see what the problem is. Hoping to continue with drmos after lockdown ends but the studio will reopen- any ideas you'd like me to cover? Hoping you're safe up in Edinburgh - beautiful city😁
@@thepotterycorner thanks! Photo coming. Feeling quite safe here thanks; don’t go out much!! But have had both my covid jags, 😃😃😃- hope you get yours soon. Barbara x
Gorgeous! Just what I’ve been looking for as I want to make a totem pole of poppy seed pods for a veterans horticulture therapy project! ☺️ it’ll be my biggest make yet. Was it 1230 you fired at?
@@thepotterycorner Thanks for your response. I ll buy the most heavy grogged stoneware. How about the clay color? just find the way it turned once fired very earthy vintagy… I ll rey and make thème un différents clans from brown to red to white The one you uses it Wax brown and turned lighter on the dark beige side
I just started my poppy heads and I am loving them so far! Now I will have a forever reminder of one of my favorite memories living in Lincoln as a child, walking though a field of poppies on my way to catch the bus to school. I have very fond memories growing up in England. I am curious about how you go about installing them in the garden. What do you make as the stem and how do you securely attach the poppy head to the stem? Thank you! - Autumn from Seattle, WA
Hello Autumn. Thanks for watching. Great to have you along. Lincoln is a beautiful city with a very long climb to the cathedral! I don't put these large heads on stakes, although I'm sure you could if the metal stake was man enough for the job. I usually display mine amongst the foliage for all round interest. So glad you're making some. 😊
@@thepotterycorner oh I know that climb very well! We even nicknamed the hill we would climb "steep hill"... A little on they nose. I may have my dad teach me how to weld so the poppies can be staked in the ground. There really is no instant gratification in pottery... So many processes - so many opportunities for things to go wrong.
Stunning, all 3 of them. It's amazing that the glass moves off the ridges like the glazing does. Beautiful
Thanks for watching the whole series. Its great to follow a project from start to finish. Do send me pictures if you make your own version. Website address is in the description. 😊
I love the look of the finished poppies. A great set of tutorials thank you
Thanks Lynn - they came out pretty well - I hope you have a go at making something similar. Thanks for watching as ever😀
Thanks again for your beautyful work😍
Thanks Helena- much appreciated 🙏
These came out fabulously! I love the combination of the glass frits and the copper oxides. They are just wonderful. Can't wait to make some!
Thanks Linda. Glad you're inspired to have a go. 🙏
Nice, like the glass on top
Thank you so much. I appreciate your comments.
Thanks so much once again, Sarah. I am definitely going to follow in your footsteps and make at least one of those seedheads to put in my wild garden here in Iceland. Yours look amazing, my favorite is the largest one, because I love the finish on that. Take good care of yourself.
Thanks Linda very kind words. Much appreciated 🙏.
Just went trough all your popy seed videos ..amazing
Thank you so much 💓
You would love the diamond core tools pads with grit that go on your wheel and they do a great job of smoothing your bottoms
Thanks Sue - I have a flat diamond grinder which I used from my stained glass days. I also use a dremel for smaller and more accurate grinding always with water! Great to have you along 😁
Thank you so much for sharing such a great lesson on making these beauties! Especially the kiln opening. You’re so sweet to share all this, and your poppies are beautiful!!! I’m looking forward to making some!
Thanks for watching Jana and your kind words. Glad you're inspired to make some. 😁
Very nice! Mine is still waiting to go through the final glaze fire. Love the ones with beaded ridges. Now I will have to make a beaded sprig mold, so I can make another poppy head! :0)
Thank you for sharing Sarah! I love your videos!
Hi Joann - there's always a job to do in the studio! Do send a pic when they're through the firing. 😁
Brilliant tutorial with such inspiring results thank you Sarah
Thanks Jane. Very kind of you 🙏
I absolutely love your work and as well the fact that you share your knowledge and skill with everyone. I love the way you teach, it’s so clear and it makes it so much easier to follow. If it weren’t for the dreaded COVID I would love to sign up for a workshop...Bravo
Thanks for watching and for your kind words Wendy. Much appreciated 🙏
Oh man, that glass-and-oxide combo is gorgeous. I'm going to try to duplicate that look with tinted Resin.
Thanks Cher. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. 😄
Found this very useful, thank you
Thanks for watching this one too. 😄
Wonderful results! Mine are waiting for their first firing. I'll also be using oxides on them.
Hi Claire- do email me a pic. Be great to see your version 😁
Love the shiny green glass. Thanks for the demo with the hammer and the stuck cookies. I hope you’ll keep going with your demos once lockdown is loosened....I’ve just done my first glaze firing in my new mini kiln like yours and there is a quarter inch black spot on one of my kiln shelves and a corresponding spot on the underside of one of my cookies. I don’t know if it’s glaze or a contaminant in the clay used to make the cookie. Should I dremel the whole depth of the black spot out of the shelf or should I just level it off? I didn’t use kiln wash. Maybe I should have. I heard that glaze drips eat their way through shelves - yikes! But thinking if I keep dremelling I’ll make a hole in the shelf myself. Thanks in advance if you can advise me 😘 from Barbara in Edinburgh
Hi Barbara- not sure what to recommend. Can you send me a picture via email (see website www.thepotterycorner.co.uk) so I can see what it is. Don't recommend demeaning. Did you do a test firing with the kiln empty?? Send me a picture and I'll see what the problem is. Hoping to continue with drmos after lockdown ends but the studio will reopen- any ideas you'd like me to cover? Hoping you're safe up in Edinburgh - beautiful city😁
That should say dremelling not demeaning! Predictive text 🤔
@@thepotterycorner thanks! Photo coming. Feeling quite safe here thanks; don’t go out much!! But have had both my covid jags, 😃😃😃- hope you get yours soon. Barbara x
Gorgeous! Just what I’ve been looking for as I want to make a totem pole of poppy seed pods for a veterans horticulture therapy project! ☺️ it’ll be my biggest make yet. Was it 1230 you fired at?
Hi Tamsin and thanks for watching. Glad you're going to do the make. Yes, I fire stoneware to 1230 degrees centigrade. Great to have you along 😀
What sort of clay did you use for making these popy seed heads
Hi again. It's called craft crank here in the UK. Stoneware clay quite heavily grogged- hope that helps
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Thanks for your response. I ll buy the most heavy grogged stoneware. How about the clay color?
just find the way it turned once fired very earthy vintagy…
I ll rey and make thème un différents clans from brown to red to white
The one you uses it Wax brown and turned lighter on the dark beige side
I just started my poppy heads and I am loving them so far! Now I will have a forever reminder of one of my favorite memories living in Lincoln as a child, walking though a field of poppies on my way to catch the bus to school. I have very fond memories growing up in England.
I am curious about how you go about installing them in the garden. What do you make as the stem and how do you securely attach the poppy head to the stem? Thank you! - Autumn from Seattle, WA
Hello Autumn. Thanks for watching. Great to have you along. Lincoln is a beautiful city with a very long climb to the cathedral! I don't put these large heads on stakes, although I'm sure you could if the metal stake was man enough for the job. I usually display mine amongst the foliage for all round interest. So glad you're making some. 😊
@@thepotterycorner oh I know that climb very well! We even nicknamed the hill we would climb "steep hill"... A little on they nose.
I may have my dad teach me how to weld so the poppies can be staked in the ground. There really is no instant gratification in pottery... So many processes - so many opportunities for things to go wrong.
Sarah, how can I send you images of my poppies?
By email sarah@thepotterycorner.co.uk! Or on Instagram The.Pottery.Corner- be great to see them 😁