What is your favorite part about making pottery? Throwing or building? Carving? Glazing? Firing? With so many different ways to make pots there were some great responses and insights into what part other potters like best and why they like it.
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Here we are, episode 9! In this episode we are going to hear about your favorite part of the pottery making process. Working with clay, especially making functional pots, requires certain steps. But I bet if you really looked at the details, every potter has their own unique way of doing things and it was interesting to hear why people liked a certain part of the process. To start with we’ll hear from potters that couldn’t pick just one part of the process. Next, we’ll hear why a majority of people like the throwing or forming part of the process. Then we’ll hear about trimming, carving, glazing and decorating. At the end we’ll hear about opening the kiln and a few very specific or different parts of the process.
Everything
Let’s start with the people that love everything about making pottery.

Lucia_c It's all so beautiful the shaping the trimming the glazing.. each part is magic ✨✨✨

Chcceramics I love making.. but I always feel as though my favorite part changes with my mood. Learning and teaching are pretty steadfast though....

Pitchpinepottery Throwing, watching the clay change color as it dries, trimming, carving, opening the kiln to a glaze firing. The entire process holds promise, mystery and magic!

Karen Sullivan can't pick just one favorite part of the process. Each part of the process is my favorite. But my least favorite is wedging!

Jamie Schuler The entire process, because nothing is more satisfying than to start from scratch and end up with something that has been created by both earth and being at the same time.
Throwing or Forming
Melissayungbluth Building. The very first part of the process. I zen out the best at that stage. ☺️

Dowidat.ceramics Creating at the wheel that first process of getting the creative juices going!! It's a zen moment for (me) to be in my head.

Mrs.mabry1130 My favorite part of the process is definitely shaping the clay after it's got its height because you get to play with it a little. If you don't like it, you can change it. And the meaning behind it goes far beyond just shaping it.

Carolclarkson Throwing!! I love the moist clay on my fingertips taking on a new shape ..amazing .

Kim_keylan Throwing, it's my little zen meditation. Me, clay, wheel and nothing.

2frogsstudio After I have centered and opened and bring it to a cylinder, the possibilities open to me to shape it is the magical moment. It's also the hardest part too. It's up to me to bring out the beautiful form or to destroy it to nothingness. But the cylinder and its infinite possibilities...

Anotherseattleartist Throwing for sure. Followed closely by opening a glaze or luster kiln ?

Muddyduckpottery I love throwing. But I can't repeat too many forms at a time, or I get bored

Gingerbarrheafey Throwing a ball of clay into a shape and then trimming the pot. Period. Dislike glazing tremendously.

Mhewryk32 Throwing! Love the feel of it and all the techniques behind it. Love how much faster you can accomplish certain forms compared to how long it would take to hand build the same form.

omelettrees.studio At least for the half of us, the throwing is the favourite part of the process. Cleaning up the vessel with the metal kidney right at the end to form a clean shape is completed with a fair amount of satisfaction, so much so the only real trimming needed after that is simply to turn out a foot at the bottom. Here's one made earlier today, just about to be cut and lifted from the wheel. (embed:)

Pathwaypottery The creating!

Martha H Working in porcelain which is so finicky you must work fast concept in mind ...and because of it's memory it is challenging( it's ju