She worked a little on smoothing out the area where the two had been connected before retrieving the vase from the garage. Carefully she inserted the stem, holding the newly connected blossom just below the rose with a set of diamond shears, and as she found just where she thought it would look perfect, she released the stem, pressing the green piece against the vase, and closed the diamond shears around the neck of the vase. She squeezed until the vase neck closed around the stem, securing it in place, and using the edge of a paddle, she fixed the mouth of the vessel until it was, she thought, perfect. Or somewhat perfect.
Iseult carried the completed vessel over to the annealer and placed it inside with the other cooling pieces. She shut the door behind it and returned to her work station, picking up the blowpipe and shaving off the remaining glass. She studied the next drawing, remembering the plan that she had formulated for this piece, and turned back to the furnace.
She began again, gathering glass at the tip, rolling it on the marver to begin its basic shape and smoothing away the irregularities. She rolled it next in the powders that would give the glass a reddish tint, making sure to get an even coating, and held the piece in the furnace, rotating, waiting for the powder to adhere and melt into the glass.
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- Completed: Rose vase
- Started: Pink vase
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