Class and first projects

The Oregon coast was a perfect place to complete three days of glass classes with Deb Crowley. She's a wonderful teacher and gave me a ton of practical knowledge but I may be an "old dog"...new tricks and all that. I came home with a couple of great sushi plates and four coasters that showed a myriad of inclusions. She gave me the information to jump in and begin some projects.

My friends Chuck and Kris joined me for a day playing with glass. Chuck jumpes in feet first with a three opening condiment dish, Kris did a small plate with enameled grapes and I did two plates. When it came time to fire them I chickened out on writing my own recipe and chose the slow full fuse on my Skutt GM1414. They all came out great. The next day we set out to slump them. The plates were perfect but the condiment dish didn't quite slump enough. It was jump in and alter the Slump program or let Chuck take home a very shallow condiment dish! I added a little on the temp and a little on the anneal and popped the dish back into the kiln. Slump it did. I'll post some pics when I get them and would welcome comments to assit a newbie.