A month or so ago I wrote a post about a ceramics class that wonderful mum and I had attended with Katie Almond. We made a two tier cake stand. You can see the process post here. We picked them up a few weeks later and assembled them. Here is mine.
It's sewing themed as it's going to live in my craft room, holding sewing notions. Nope, no cake is going to grace this stand. I don't bake.
I tied the little "sew" tag on with a piece of ribbon that matches the colour scheme of aqua, navy and red.
It took me ages to make and put on all those buttons round the edge!
I am really pleased with how it turned out. I love Katie's style of ceramics and I don't think I did a bad job here.
Today I have something unfinished to show you. What's that? When do I every show you anything finished? Well, yes, you're right! So nothing new today then.
Me and wonderful mum went to a class to work with porcelain clay and make a 2-tier cake stand.
We've taken a class with Katie Almond, the class tutor, before and loved it, so had no hesitation signing up for this one. I absolutely love Katie's style and you should go and check that link out, even if you have no interest in pottery, it's inspiring for many other crafts.
Above is a sideways picture (it's round, why did I feel the need to turn my phone round??) of the bottom tier of my cake stand. I think it's the top. I used some acrylic stamps which came free with a magazine to stamp the dress-maker's form, the Singer and the tape measures. I then coloured them with glazes. The light blue patch on the right hand side is where I rolled a piece of lace into the clay to make a nice texture. I'm hoping the glaze on that area comes out very pale, I'm kind of wishing I hadn't painted it now. I made all the buttons round the outside and in the middle and had the idea of making them spotty or stripy as well as solid coloured when I realised how hard it was to paint the sides!
I cut out a small tag shape and some stamped letters which I very carefully painted with a very thin paintbrush. I have no idea how this will come out!
Here we have the top. Possibly. The blue lines are where I impressed an open zip into the clay. I only painted the tape, leaving the teeth unpainted. At the bottom is a button jar and some stamped buttons, along with the handmade buttons that I've glazed. I got the idea of doing the mini bunting from another girl in the class, she was doing big bunting for her tea party themed plates.
We should be getting the finished pieces back any time soon, then I'll put it together and show you how it turned out. Fingers crossed my painting hasn't ruined it...
