It's been a long hard project but I finally finished it with a glaze firing last Friday, a bisque firing on Saturday, glazing the bisqued pots and firing them Sunday night and packing all the remaining 150 pots and delivering them on Monday night. The St. Patrick's Festival Commission will be selling the pots this Thursday night at the Pancake Supper and at the Arts & Crafts Festival on Saturday and Sunday. They have asked for an additional 50 pots to be sold as souvenirs throughout the remainder of the year but I don't have to rush them and can finish them with 10 or so at a time.

I have posted some pictures of the final 150 finished pots from different angles to provide a scope of what that many pots looks like and for me to look at before I commit to doing this another year.

Well here it is the first weekend in March and it's come down to crunch time again. Last weekend I fired 100 pots on Friday and Saturday nights and this past Wednesday night I had trimmed through 175. Thursday night I threw 12 more pots and on Saturday threw 15 more which would have been enough to have finished out the project. But I left the pots I threw on Saturday uncovered so they would dry faster and I forgot to check on them Saturday night and when I remembered on Sunday morning half if not more wouldn't take the logo stamped on it good enough so I have to trash those and re-throw. I threw 6 more today and will need to throw some more on Monday night.


The goal is to do the final firing on Sunday afternoon so I can deliver them by Tuesday.


I took some pictures of the pots in the various stages of making a pot. From right to left is a row of pots a few hours after being thrown, then a row of pots trimmed and dried, a row of pots bisque fired and finally a row after the glaze firing. The shrinkage of the pots is easily visable in this picture. The pots are thrown at 4 1/2" high and 2 3/4" wide at the rim and after the glaze firing they shrink down to 3 3/8" high by 2 1/2" wide.