I've cut out the whorl for my yarn bowl. We watched a YouTube video a few times, practised a few times on a rolled out scrap, went for a fortifying cuppa then did it! Not helped by Liz videoing or by us both breath holding.
On Tuesday I need to hacksaw away the rim which remains in place until the clay is bone dry. Then Liz will fire it, and we hope the whorl survives!!
@swillinbillyflynn the plan is to let it fully dry, gently rub away sharp bits (i've already neatened it up from this shot). My friend will fire it and then I'm going to dunk it in a blue/brown glaze and she'll fire it again and fingers crossed the glaze doesn't block the gap!! She says she has no desire to make these items to sell!!
Nice close up of the process. The potter who sponsored the fiber guild I belong to for a yarn bowl making session was the one who cut out this part. Can't wait to see it when it's finished.
Jackie, the yarn bowl works, but I don't use it much. The bottom of mine is not particularly smooth. I roughed up a piece of sofa cushion where it sat (and slid around) a bit. I didn't want it to scratch up my floor. I should have put some felt on the bottom, but ended up finding it easier to put projects in bags so they would be more portable. A good idea that I found wasn't as handy as I thought it would be in my mind. I do have it sitting next to me on a table and it catches pieces of yarn I can use to offload stitches for trying on or moving to another part of a garment. It also has a lot of the rubber bands that used to hold my newspapers together. So it's still useful, just in another way.
November 5th, 2023
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@mcsiegle I'm excited too
@onewing me too
@365projectorgchristine ta
@monicac hopefully it'll be nice
@Dawn one more bit to shape
@corinnec it's going to I hope
@gillian1912 my friend really is
@grammyn a lot more ambitious than I'd anticipated
@wakelys I'm hacksawing it next week
@taffy hoping it will be
@wendyfrost oh me too
@briaan slowly getting there