Front stack loaded… two shelves deep with a lot more pots. Quite a few mugs. You know they’re my favorite thing to make! I love loading the soda kiln… pot by pot, shelf by shelf until it’s full.

Now time to brick up the door… ugh.

Back stack packed & loaded… lots of pots already in the soda kiln.
And that’s just the back third of it!!!

An empty soda kiln filled with possibilities… and some really cool soda-covered bricks!!! Loving the crusty patina colored finish after a lot of soda-firings in this kiln!!!

Sometimes this is the best four-letter word!

These pyrometric cones were in the kiln for our SODA-FIRING WORKSHOP last weekend… looks like we went a little bit past cone ten?! What with my “newbies” learning & helping to put the soda mixture into the kiln… we may have gone a little slower than normal. The pots turned out great… so apparently a little hotter with a “flat” cone 10 didn’t matter too much!!!

When the kiln finally got up towards its top temperatures tonight, my class started scooping the soda mixture onto an angle iron preparing to insert it into the kiln to create the soda atmosphere. They had a great time “playing” with the flames, inserting the soda & making some “magic” happen inside the kiln!!!

A little wisp of a reduction flame sneaking out through the bricks!

Cones are moving… it’s getting hot in there!!!

An early morning start… ignition… flames… here we go!
It’s going to be a long day of firing… with my class coming back
this evening to help insert the soda mixture into the kiln.