Blowing

This is me in the hot shop, looking surprisingly convincing (considering I can't do it). But look at that red hot bit of glass at the end of the iron (not a bad gather) and look at the angle of my pucella (that's the pincery thing) which is OK. I ruined it after that by blowing too much, natch. But you learn from mistakes.

And here is my first -- what shall I call it -- um, vessel. It looks better in this picture than it actually is. Ashtray sized. I hope I will be horribly ashamed of it in a few weeks, but just now I do admit to being a little bit chuffed. Even this, wobbly though it is, is quite hard to achieve.