Added Some Drizzle Stitches.

Added some drizzle stitches.

your august 15 post, i have a question about. im a former crafts grad. did you crochet the piece, dip in slip then fire? i ask because someone at school was doing something similar, and I haven't seen much of this done but really interesting!

Yup! That was pretty much it.

I used a cheap acrylic yarn (because wool is expensive, and it seems a waste to just burn it), which let off a *lot* of black smoke as it burned off. I used a crochet hook a couple of sizes bigger than is recommended for the yarn, to make sure it was hole-y enough (both for aesthetic reasons, and to help air circulate in the firing). I dipped it in earthenware slip, let it dry out for a few days, did a very slow fire, and then glazed with a transparent glaze. 

Far left is plaited braid stitch. Took me a couple of attempts to get the rhythm sorted.

Day twenty.

Finished.

I couldn’t work on the Iliad this morning due to lack of working phone to take a picture with, so I worked on this instead.

It took hours longer than cross-stitch, but I like it.

Irritatingly, though, the QR reader app on my phone can’t read this one; and if it cant be read, i’ll have to undo it and rework it until t can. Though I’m given to believe the app I have is rather crap so I’ll try a few more out before undoing those hours of work. (And if anyone else has a QR app please feel free to try reading it and let me know if you have any luck)

Edit: my partner's QR android app can read it just fine, and that's good enough for me. Yay for not having to undo work.