What a great day!  I've heard it said that if you want to learn how to throw pots (on the wheel), make a hundred.  The first ten...meh.  Not so great.  Eleven through twenty, getting better. Twenty one though thirty, you want to glaze them. Thirty one through forty, you want to start giving them away.  The pots are really starting to look nice. I'm sure I must have reached a hundred bowls because I'm finally getting to where I can decide on a bowl to make, and purposely choose a rim, foot and body and make it.  In fact, finally I can duplicate that bowl, at least to six!  Woohoo!

Can I just say throwing pots is my idea of fun!  My porcelain class is demanding, but I love the challenge and the feel of porcelain. It is a sensitive material to work with but it is rich, it is luscious, it is creamy......mmmm.  I need to push the limits further though.  I'm making pots that are still quite heavy, more like stoneware. But I know I can push it further, stretch it, thin it out, blow it out, make it lighter, more elegant. 

I may never go back to stoneware (......just kidding).  But porcelain spoils you forever.

Our assignment was to make 6 medium bowls, each with a different rim.  Choose the rim we like best and make 6 more bowls with that rim.  Then, on each of those bowls, trim 6 different feet.  Then choose the foot you like best and put it on the first 6 bowls.  The challenge I see in it is to figure out how to make the different feet match the various rims on those first six bowls...whew!  Good times!