Thanks for your comments on the video!  Several people have asked to see examples of fired lamps using the wiggle wire process.   As these photos show, results vary depending on the pattern of your wire, whether you saw back and forth as you move down the pot, whether the wheel is moving as you make the cut, and etc.  The wide pattern on the first lamp was made with a wire from Dirty Girls Pottery Tools.

I’ve been having a great time playing with their various wire sizes and patterns.

Given our quiet country lives and the repetitive nature of making pots, I rarely have anything that qualifies as News.  But today I have three things worth mentioning.

First, Alan has finished producing my second teaching video — on making a lamp decorated with a wiggle wire.  It’s at the bottom of this post, and we’d love your feedback on it.

Second, I had a teapot accepted in the Fourth International Small Teapot Competition that will take place at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California this spring.

Third, I leave this Sunday with my friend Kathy Knowles for a week teaching throwing at John C Campbell Folk School in North Carolina.  It’s a great place — like camp for grownups — where one can learn about almost anything done by hand.  Potting, metalwork, every kind of fiber arts, cooking, woodwork, music, and etc.  Check out their offerings at http://www.folkschool.org.