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.
Wow, very interesting yet again. It looks much easier than it really is i’m sure. One comment, the video cuts off too quick, you really don’t have time to comprehend the final product or register in your thoughts the beauty of the form and finish. I found that same issue for me in the last video as well. Thanks for sharing and congrats on recent achievements!
Very interesting! Just watching you make the lamp is so interesting to a non-potter but owner of 3 of your lamps! The wiggle wire technique is really cool! Congratulations on your accomplishments. Enjoy next week.
Great video, Nan, and again, thanks for the unsolicited support of Potters for Peace!
i can’t get a smooth running of the video. it stops and starts and never runs smoothly, so i got too frustrated and left after you opened to the bottom. wish i could see it in its a smooth even showing
Hi Nan,
What a great design! I would like to have seen you go a little further on the lamp making. I would liked to have seen the finishing portion of the lamp making. I love your work. Thanks so much for offering your knowledge and support to those of us on line just reaching for everything thing we can to learn. Still have a full time job, but when I retire, Look Out, I want to experience everything! I’ll be watching out for the next video. Thank You So Very Much!!
Susan
Eleanor,
Your problem is probably that the video is loading too slowly. When it happens to me, I just let it load…it will play in starts and stops, just do something else for awhile. Then slide the little button at the bottom back to start the video again and it will run smoothly. The other option is to go watch it on a faster computer.
Good Luck,
Patti
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