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swachterAyyy another not-terrible thing! I’m so glad I took notes on what all I did on this one. Mostly this was A Science on how to do decent stencils - I put down black underglaze in the first step, but unfortunately the adhesive on the back of the stencil pulled it up in undesirable ways. LEARNINGS!! I’m definitely coming to the conclusion that underglaze and adhesive stencils don’t play well together. I still need to try underglaze on greenware and see how that works with using a stencil after bisque firing. <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ceramics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ceramics</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/pottery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pottery</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/trynewthings2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trynewthings2025</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/butterfly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#butterfly</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/monarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monarch</a>

swachterWent back to the pottery studio today. Successfully threw three bowls and a (hopefully?) mug (once our teacher covers handles) and trimmed another bowl I threw on Friday. It’s kinda nice looking at some earlier photos of stuff from even two or three weeks ago and being like, yeah, these suck less. (Which is not to say that they are amazing, because they are not! But they do suck less!)(Global alt text: four photographs of today’s bowls and mug. Things are reasonably rounded and even and recognizably bowls (or mug).)<a href="https://toot.boston/tags/pottery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pottery</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ceramics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ceramics</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/trynewthings2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trynewthings2025</a>

swachterPost-trimming-class results: two pots moved to the greenware shelf for drying and firing, one pot unceremoniously re-smooshed into my clay bag, one pot trimmed too thin at the base and some supplementary clay added and returned to work shelf for potential future trimming. I still have four pots from Wednesday’s session that weren’t quite dry enough to trim. The unceremoniously re-smooshed pot was the first pot I threw and it was absolutely a monstrosity. I had very low expectations of its survival and was mostly using it as tool handling practice. The two survivors both had a bit of “chattering” (apparently this is when your tool kind of vibrates and creates ridges, often when your clay is too wet or dry to trim). I didn’t mean for it to happen, but I think it’s kinda cool!<a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ceramics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ceramics</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/pottery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pottery</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/trynewthings2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trynewthings2025</a>

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