I’ve been working on a teaset for the annual raffle at the Christmas Craft Fair. It’s given me the chance to play around more with medieval vine patterns. I’ve used that one before, for one of the Library of Teacups mugs (for one of my Old French textbooks), and it’s one of the more striking ones. I especially like the bright colours–a lot of these patterns are all thin black lines with thin black squiggly bits crammed into wee teeny spaces. This one is more colourful, bolder, and will quite boisterously fill any space you give it.
The teaset is in the kiln now… I get to see how it turned out tomorrow morning. Sure hope I like it.
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My name is Maaike Charron, and I'm a potter in St. John's, Newfoundland. I started fiddling around with pottery in summer 2006, when I was told volunteering in the local clay studio would get me free studio time. I mostly taught myself, spending a lot of time poring over books, magazines and websites, and occasionally pestering the more advanced (but very helpful) potters around me with questions. After about two years, I decided I'd gotten good enough to go into business for myself. This blog, started after my first big craft fair, was created to document the process of becoming a wondrously succesful craftsperson. (Or it will document How Not To Do It. We'll see.)
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