What I’m Making: Pottery!

Back in November, I took a clay workshop and made a mug (which I totally use, much to my continuing satisfaction). A few months later, the same studio held another one-night workshop, this time including some wheel time. Wheel time! OMG.

So I made that lopsided bowl at the top of these photos, using a potter’s wheel for the first time since I was a kid at summer camp. And since there were only two wheels but about ten people in the class, during my non-wheel time I made the other two bowls. The ring bowl now sits on the ledge above my bathroom sink, where I use it every day.

When I got home after the workshop, I told my husband I’d woken the pottery beast that had been lying dormant in my brain for many, many years. I was ready to go deep. I was ready for a proper, weekly workshop.

Then he surprised me by saying he’s always had a fantasy about pottery, too. I’d had no idea!

Which is how it came to be that next week we’re starting a pottery workshop together.

No, of course we haven’t been dreaming aloud about converting our garage into a pottery studio. That would be insane.