Mary Ostler

Photo of a drill with an arrow shaft in its chuck, a plastic weavers shuttle bobbin on the shaft, and secured with two hair elastics. Red thread is spilled onto the bobbin.

What to do when you don't have one of those fancy shanty weaving shuttle bobbin wonders....

Improvise.

Toy arrow, two hair elastics and a drill.

#weaving

Heard it in Pitt Meadows

It's similar to how I layout barley twist legs for wood turning.

Bulbus vase with vertical lines penciled on with laser.

Bulbus vase with horizontal and vertical lines penciled on, the red graphite lines connecting cross points in a spiral pattern.

Alternating swirls paint in with underglaze.

The final glazed bulbus vase.

The vase is done.
I absolutely love that graphite burns off during bisque....
Does it disappear if it's present under glaze.... new experiment. Lol.

#pottery

No one's asking him to fit and pilot fighter jets, be a submariner, or fit in a tank.

Just front line infantry. :)

I look forward to independent insufferable seeking.

A white teardrop shaped bisque fired vase getting a vertical swirl pattern painted in blue underglaze

Work has started on the next piece. Still not sure where I'm going with this piece. Just glad I got to use my laser.

#pottery

Dear Lourde, I apologize for the sound. I filmed it in complete silence.

The little pot turned out great.
One coat matte over all, and two thick layers of glossy on the red.

The white area feels glazed, yet looks like unglazed. I was hoping for that.

#pottery

A thrown dish with slip trailing and underglaze pre firing.

Trying my hand at a new techniques on one of my pots.

Looking forward to throwing it into the kiln.

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Red kenworthbpickup.

What's even weirder is this is his second kenworth pickup truck.

A early 80s kenworth cab on a normal truck frame with a normal truck bed painted florescent green.

My dad's newest project is finally on the road. Hello you magnificently weird lowered Kenworth with a normal truck bed.

You amuse me no end.
#Kenworth

Are those sheep? Adorable.

I'm far more used to being called weirdo or NERD. Thank you.

For tents. I'd use cotton ,but not generally a used textile for tents in history, but living in the Wet Coast of Canada it's a better choice than wool, silk or linen.

Useless trivia. The tent rental/Event planners association newsletter is called Intents.

Counterbalance.

Big roller attached to two smaller rollers.

It will be a while... I need to learn a lot through trial and error before I take on a tent weaving project. ;)

Leclerc mira 2 counter balance loom.

Soooo. This may have just happened.

I've always wanted to weave the material for one of my tents. Next big project might have been started.

#weaving #tents #SCA #AnTir #TirRigh

Same

My three part pottery model of Baba Yagas house. The houses legs are just getting started to be shaped.

A photo of cassowary legs.

Started on the legs of my baba yaga hut. Modeling the legs on a cassowaries legs not chicken legs, cause cassowary legs look primeval.

The book covers of Felt Tents and Pavillions part 1 & 2 by Peter Alford Andrews.

Post a cover of book you love from the 90's.

Practice different shapes and wall consistency of 7 items thrown on a pottery wheel.

Today I got to spend time at the pottery wheel.

Practicing different forms and trying for consistency of wall thickness. Still a lot to practice. I am reasonably happy both the results. I do tend to be too ambitious for thin walls. It gets to the point the clay can barely hold its shape.
#pottery

Starting a new project in ignorance can sometimes be a blessing. I learned to knit making a custom made fair isle pattern touque. Apparently that is not normal.

Fuck normal, I prefer weird.

I miss my HHGTTG inspired Frankie and Benji mouse touque.

Now that I know it's hard, I'm Intimidated. Doh.

My underglaze experiment of my sythian goat worked...OK. think i know how to improve it.

The inside of a bowl with three layers of glaze. Clear, then an orange, then a streaky bluey/brown glaze.

A couple things from the pottery classes I took. We were encouraged to experiment with multi layer glazes.

#pottery

Nerds....stupid autocorrect.

That band is the biggest group needs I've ever had the pleasure to meet. The wrote a rock anthem dedicated to the dinosaur fish Coelcanth.

Needs.

YouTube video by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Topic Walking on the Moon

My favorite band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets did a speed up version of the Police's Walking on the Moon.

Can't find the version with the weird video but this is the audio link.

youtu.be/9mxQyfVwBxs?...

My main problem with Rhonda as a name is the thought of how many times I would have people singing Help me Rhonda before I snapped with violence. :)

I have hit the point where I only truly know what day of the week it is by what podcasts dropped into my release feed.

Must be a Thursday. As I get The Friendly Atheist podcast and a Beyond the Bastards podcast.

Happy Thursday everyone.