Ceramic weblog Ceramic Arts Daily points out that you'll need to have pots with walls around ⅜-inch thick throughout to work properly on a pit fire kiln.

But everyone wasn’t pleased with the thought of hard labor – at first. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God. I want to do pottery, not make a kiln,’ ” said 16-year-old junior Kamal DeGregory.

The at-home pottery kits specialists, Sculpd, show how to make a DIY clay pinch pot using hand building techniques and without using a kiln.