I’ve wanted to learn new techniques for a while, but I haven’t had the time. While it has been relatively quiet and my children are back at school, I’ve started learning new things and experimenting. It’s been fun and exciting – I feel like my passion for glass is back! There are many ways to create a vase. I started with a pot melt – which is lots of offcuts of glass, melted in a chamber in the kiln. There is a process to choosing colours for the melt. You could bung any old colours in, but...