The Poll has closed and the winning theme for February 2026 is Heart and Home.
I’ve turned this into the thread we will use throughout February.
Heart & Home can be taken literally or emotionally, from houses and hearts to the feelings, places, and comforts that make somewhere feel like home. Interpret it in your own way and make something new inspired by the theme.
Hello I have made my vote 
Bumping to the top.
Thank you for starting this challenge thread Sarah @dotterypottery
I love the daily challenge thread but can never produce enough new work to take part reguarly, this is more my pace.
Bump! Anyone is welcome to join in the February monthly makes challenge.
Last little bump if anyone else wants to join in the Monthly Makes challenge for Feb?
If you do, you can vote on the poll and I’ll create the thread later this evening ready for tomorrow.
If you don’t know what the Monthly Makes challenge is - anyone can join in, we set a theme for the whole month which you can take inspiration from to help fuel your creativity. You can make a piece or pieces of work based around this theme in any way you wish to interpret it. These don’t have to be for sale, they can also just be for fun.
We will cheerlead you along the way, with you showing your work in progress throughout the month.
At the end of the month, you can show your finished work.
I’ve just updated the title - the winning theme for February is Heart and Home.
Here we go then everyone 
The theme for this month is Heart and Home.
I’m thinking of making some small houses! So many potters make little houses nowadays that I’ve been steering away from a very saturated market but maybe if I was to make some for myself?
I carved a little one in wax last night, will see how it looks in silver.
I love little houses, made some just for myself out of little OXO cube boxes just a Christmas project. Can’t wait to see what you come up with @DeborahJonesJewellery @dotterypottery
I am toying with the idea of a paper cut or Lino.
Here is a pic of the wax. I am currently reading a book called Craft Land, about crafts/trades that have almost died out in Britain. I’ve just read a chapter about the little stone houses thatched with Heather in the west highlands.
This is so cute. 
Your little house looks so cute Deborah @DeborahJonesJewellery - do you carve it in wax first then and then create a mold of it? I’ve done lost wax carving for glass molds in the past but not metal.
That books sounds really interesting. We were trying to think of occupations that can’t be taken over by AI in the future, creating rooftops from heather may be one of them!
Yes Sarah, @dotterypottery I cover it with plaster, burn out the wax and pour in molten silver. It has come out really well. Not sure what I will do with it yet.
that is so cute Deborah @DeborahJonesJewellery
It is so sweet @DeborahJonesJewellery
Hi all, I’m back after having a totally craft free January. The only sewing I have done is to take in a pair of jeans for ofspring no 2, and start making a wrap skirt for offspring no 1. I’ll rejoin the Daily Listing Challenge later this month, but in the meantime I’m looking forward to joining this challenge.
My project? I’ve promised to make some patchwork quilts for our local group of the Linus charity - they are always after slightly bigger ones for teenagers as most volunteers prefer doing smaller sized ones. I think most of this year’s teen quilts are for the Invisible Walls project, where they are given to children with family members in local prisons as part of a wider intiative helping re-make and build connections. So I think the challenge theme of Heart and Home theme will work very nicely.
Hopefully I’ll make a start tomorrow - although I’m also supposed to be sorting fabrics for a destash event on Saturday 
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Look forward to seeing everyone’s projects develop. 
I really like this Deborah. So clever and amazing detail.
Lou x
Thanks, I’m pleased with how it turned out.
Here’s my finished bottle from last month. Unfortunately, I encountered a few problems with it. I used some new underglazes and when I fired the clear glaze over the top it left a pitted surface. I had to re-fire it with a brush on a clear glaze instead over the affected areas.
This means that I had to glaze fire it twice and the red glaze on the heart ended up pooling a little bit at the bottom, which it hadn’t done after the first glaze firing.
I still quite like it though, and I am going to list it for sale, although it did take a lot longer and more firings than I thought. It’s all a learning curve though.
