Sunday, May 22, 2011

Progress!

What I started with - 42 balls of clay:

What I ended up with: 42 more yarn bowls.


I finished the bowls on the top left shelf Saturday morning. The not-a-yarn-bowl rectangular thing on the 2nd shelf is a bonsai pot for my cousin.

About 40 bowls left for me to make. Getting there!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Ode to my wheel

You spin my clay right round
right round like a record, baby
Right round round round
You spin my clay right round,
Right round like a record, baby
Right round round round

After a yarn bowl I donated for a door prize at a knitter's retreat weekend at Sauder Village caused a bit of a frenzy, the event organizers invited me to be a vendor at their Focus On Fiber Festival in June. In preparation for that, I spent the weekend throwing yarn bowls.

63 of them. Which looks like this:



I spent pretty much spent both days of the weekend down in my studio. :dreamysigh: Except for 1 quick errand and a call to my mom I didn't talk to anyone except Brian and the boys. And Brian was working and sleeping a lot, so I didn't even talk to him much! We've had so much stuff (of the social variety) going on the last 4-5 weekends it was glorious to just be able to stay home and be a hermit and make pots.

Anyway. I'm going to drop off the last 2 yarn bowls I have at Yarn Cravin' tomorrow, and hopefully will have the first batch of these bowls through the process this weekend.