The maker behind the mischief

Software engineer by day. Head magpie by night.

Veronica Canterbury

Veronica Canterbury

Software engineer, multi-material maker, and the person who bought a kiln and then found out what else it could do. KCM is what happens when a systematic mind meets materials that don’t take instruction.

First Bowl In Years

Imperfection, documented.

The most interesting KCM pieces live in the gap between intention and surprise, where an engineer’s instinct to build workflows meets clay, glass, and metal that do whatever they want. Imperfection is the feature. Materials have a voice. Nothing needs to be precious.

I do what I want. So does the kiln.

— Veronica Canterbury

Three pillars, one workshop

  • Knit The slow side. Knitting, crochet, fiber work. Patience, rhythm, and making something warm with your hands.
  • Code The systematic side. Laser cutting, digital design, tools built because the ones I wanted didn’t exist.
  • Make The material side. Clay, glass, and metal, shaped by heat, pressure, and hands into something new.

The best pieces touch at least two. A stencil drawn digitally, cut on the laser, and fired onto a pot. A knitting gauge laser-cut from acrylic and engraved with a daisy. A fused glass tile set into a metal frame.

Our Materials

Heat, pressure, and patience

Clay

Stoneware, polymer, and metal clay

Fired or baked. Some of it comes out as pots. Some of it comes out as fine silver, bronze, steel, or copper, because metal clay is clay until it isn’t.

Glass

Fused and slumped

Glass cut, stacked, nudged, and fired until it agrees to be one piece. Every firing is a negotiation.

Metal

Pewter, copper, silver

Cast, pressed, or electroformed. Each piece patinas on its own schedule; that’s a feature, not a flaw.