Some more pottery fun

You may remember my devious scheme to make my own vanity basins and the pottery class I've started as a result ... Due to the lack of progress at the house at the moment, I'm going to bang on about my pottery progress to date. It's the closest thing I have to renovation related post material!

The whole process is actually a fair bit more involved that I first thought. The first stage is called throwing. This basically involves centering your piece of clay on the wheel and then slowly coaxing a pot shape out of it. Then you let it dry out a little until the pot is firm but still malleable (leatherwear) in preparation for the second stage called turning. This involves centering your pot upside down on the wheel again and cutting a little foot into the base your pot. Then you let the pot dry out completely in preparation for it's first firing. Once it's been fired the first time it's ready to decorate with glazes etc. and once that's done it gets fired for the final time! Phew ...

So here's where I'm up to.



These ones have been turned and are ready to be dried for their first firing.



This one has been glazed and is ready to be fired. I'll let you guess what colours it will be when it comes out!



The lovely Penny, with pot!