Today's creations

I finished a knitting project today....a pattern written by StevenBe called "The Wooly Mammoth" which would have been quick except I knit and ripped it a couple of times to make sizing fit me better. Now I can deal with this crappy Minnesota cold!




In the pottery class I taught this morning, I was working with thrown bowls that were cut apart and then reassembled.....here are a couple of takes on the idea that I really found to be interesting:









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Firing

Not that I don't have enough on my plate.....but I decided to fire my wee kiln today. Fresh wares for my sale on Saturday....


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Slip Surfaces

I have been working with slip on pieces to make free texture on the surfaces of my pots.....inspired by the work of Steven Hill and Matthew Quinn.










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Fun new form!

I have been working with this new form over the last couple of weeks. It is just a wide, shallow bowl with a cut rim that is folded toward the center to create the spiral. It is certainly a very fussy form in that the transition between the bowl and reattached rim is hard to keep smooth. The bottom is irregular once the rim has been altered and thus takes a lit longer to trim off all the support clay. Every bowl comes out differently and a complete surprise to me.....so I think I will make more.....






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Little friend in our tree

I found this little friend in our "marriage ficus" today. The tree is so named as we have had the tree as a small cutting from the time we first met in college and it has been nursed through several moves and poor watering seasons. It is now enormous and has made its own little cutting trees since we have had it through five years of dating and 12 years of marriage.



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This week's play....

Here are a couple of pieces I have started this week.....





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Pretty Pots

I made this a couple of weeks ago for my beautiful cousin's upcoming wedding. She "registered" for some of my pottery and I have been working to make pieces worthy of being gifts for such a wonderful occasion!


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