Last weekend Don and I were back to the pottery studio for trimming.

When you first throw your pot, it’s a cylindrical(ish) shape and flat at the bottom. You let it try to leather hardness for a couple of weeks and put it back on the wheel to trim down the excess clay at the base and carve out a foot-ring. Don likened the process to sculpting, which is a pretty good description.

With all the action going on it’s very easy to forget to take progress shots, but I did grab a couple.

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Don’s absolutely magnificent pot. Brilliant first effort.

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Mine. You can carve out quite a bit if you’ve left a chonky base. I’m quite pleased with the transformation.

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Ready for bisque firing!

Don’s at top, mine at bottom.

I don’t know why my pots are invariably fairly small when we start with the same amount of clay.

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We’re back in a few weeks for glazing, and then we’re done!

I’m almost (almost) tempted to return to throw a few more and finally defeat pulling, which is my nemesis.

Almost.

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