The joys of throwing on the wheel can sometimes be disrupted when it goes pear shape, its common and no matter how hard you try it will always happen from time to time 😂
It’s a good thing! It can be a good learning experience and will also give you more experience with how clay works.
Some tips:
1. Stop the wheel: if your pot is starting to look like it’s doing hula hooping on the wheel head, stop the wheel. It’s way easier to assess the situation when you don’t have a pot imploding in front of your eyes.
2. See if you can bring the fault to the top of the pot: as with the bowl i was trying to throw, it was the top section that was causing all the problems, i knew if i could get the bottom part of the pot centre, id be able to salvage it. I put the wheel on a very slow rotation and worked the walls to put the fault towards the top so i could cut it off with a potters needle.
This is only possible if you still have some good thickness in the walls. If your walls are already too thin then it may be too far gone
3. Don’t Worry: Failures are part of the process and under no circumstance should you feel in anyway unhappy with the result, if it collapses and flows to a wet mess then have a laugh and try again, the best thing you can do is take a positive outlook to it and give it another go
Hope you enjoyed this post and as always, Happy Potting! 🥳
We will be back tomorrow with some more tips and ideas ❤️
