Seems like a good day to start back at writing my potter’s diary, my name day.
Today is St Bridget’s Day and a year since I finished my Adopt a Potter apprenticeship with Julie Ayton. I’m spending my mornings in the pottery during this lockdown. This morning I started making a small batch of large oven dishes. I’m making them with false bases i.e. I throw the walls, roll out a slab of clay for the base and join them together after I have distorted the walls and decorated the inside of the base. Whereas before I used to throw them whole, cut out a willow shaped hole from the base and join it back together. It was a bit awkward to slip-trail the insides. It took a few goes to get the new weight of clay right. Tomorrow, depending on the clay, will be decorating, assembling and adding the lug handles.
