A glass flower vessel

 I was just playing about in the Hot Shop today, with no particular end product in mind, I was just allowing the glass to become what it wanted to be.

I took a couple of gathers and rolled it in some frit, then blew it out to create a bottle or a glass…. Wasn’t sure which.  

Then I decided I would cut the top with some glass shears and push the glass back on itself to create a petal like effect.

Although not very even, it was my first time using glass shears on this sale (I have used them with Lampworking before) so it was all very experimental.

 

And I quite liked the result. 

A decanter and glass.

 Finally made a glass and a bottle that I was pretty pleased with for my assessment.

The bottle is maybe a little on the small side, but believe it or not, it does hold two of the glasses of water!

I originally made this bottle with a small lip for pouring, but when both the bottle and the glass were cold and out of the kiln, I realised that the glass wouldn’t fit on top of the bottle!

So, I cut the top off the bottle and then polished the rim so it would be nice and smooth again.   

And this time….. it fit!   Result  😊