sad but a puff of wind in my sails at the same time. Do overs are my curse, but if it is the learning which is paramount, and doing something "different" is the goal, and if following your gut even when you don't know why is what your doing, the results are still on the right path. I wanted this done by
Christmas, that is not happening, but it is getting done, and she did add many more elements that I never agreed to ( a mistake that won't happen twice)...so long story short, and a picture is worth a whole lot of words.
This should not have happened. IF it was going to crack, it would have done it in the bisque firing. So all I can figure is the lined pieces of two different clay bodies, just cannot be cooled at the rate they are cooling the big kiln. Something something carbon coring was told to me too, as a possible reason, but I dont' have a good understanding of that yet.
what I did learn is my red held strong, my slips were the way wanted them to, and I very much like the mason stain, burnished over raw clay body. I just have to give up that dark line on the bottom. I can probably still keep it on the top piece, none of the non lined pieces cracked an iota.
dark one cracked //unlined did not
this means the teapot has a very good chance of cracking, i might as well just start over and assume it will. The good news is the sescond time, goes faster, and is almost always a stronger piece.