Another day of potting

Today I made more lids for small 1.5 lb canisters I made yesterday. I also made some 3 and 5 lb pitchers. I got a little carried away with the third pitcher back. It seems to have more hip than belly....
















This is a tow piece vase that I made about 20 min. ago. I really like how it turned out. The base is 7.5 lbs and the neck is 2.5 lbs. I threw the base and then took my weed burner to it to stiffen it up. I then threw the neck on my treadle wheel and added it to the stiffened base. I joined the two together and refined the shape of the neck. I am thinking about adding some handle to this piece but I am not sure. We will see how I feel about that in the morning.
















Anyone who has seen this blog has got to be getting bored of seeing pots that aren't finished.... I know I would. The reason I don't have any finished pieces on here yet is because my electric kiln is not in an area where there is sufficient power so therefore I haven't been able to do any glaze firings. I am however spending the next couple of days at one of my uncles collecting and splitting wood so I can fire my small wood kiln on Sunday or Monday. I have fired this kiln once before but of course I didn't have enough wood to do anything. I am hoping that there will be enough wood to get the kiln up to temp. maybe I will have some pictures of finished pots on here. Hopefully....

Sheridan

Teapots

I did a run of teapots the other day and here is what I came up with. They are all relatively the same except for a few of them that I gave a decorative foot too.














Here is one of the ones with the decorative foot. I left enough clay at the bottow while throwing that I was able to scallop the foot. My fiance thinks that it looks like the teapot from Beauty and the Beast.















I am hoping to be spending tomorrow splitting logs so I can give my test wood kiln another go. I am going to go at it a little bit different this time around but I want to make sure that I have enough wood to even get the kiln to temp.

Sheridan