Great Studio Tour Weekend!
Thanks to everyone who visited during the Studio Tour Weekend. This is the best way for us to learn about our customers’ preferences, because they can see a wider range of our work than what is in shows or galleries. This year, for example, I had some experimental bowls with resin, and the new Stormborn ice-dyes. I also learned that I need to keep working on the charred-finish wood. Luckily, the woodturning symposium the very next weekend in Loveland gave me some of the techniques that I need to make these more successful, thanks to Merryl Saylan.
The Studio Tour is also a great time for customers to learn about our making process. It helps to keep traditional crafts thriving, even when the technologies may have been superseded by mass production. Winter is coming, and making things is a very human strategy for survival.