After making my pitcher yesterday, today I made my handle. I had to watch a video about making handles. I really liked the video because you get to see how to make a handle, instead of looking at notes...  First you have to get some bagged clay, and cut a triangle out from it. Then you have to womp the clay onto something that looks more like a triangle with four sides. After that you take the clay and hold it at the top, dip it in water, and start to pull down making the clay longer. After you get the length you want you bend the clay to the other side. You have to wait 10 mintues to let the clay dry a little. On my handle I attempted to twist the clay, for a different look. I will post pictures tomorrow when I attach the handle to the pitcher.  I also glazed my wide project today.

I'm not sure, I could be wrong, if I am ever going to make a tall project when I sit down and say, "I AM going to make a tall project today!" This is what happened when I tired to do just that... I am going to make a pitcher out of this. Tomorrow I am going to make a handle. After I got a little too confident when I was bringing the sides up I lost focus and I started to spin the wheel a little too fast and broke the top. And so
I made a lip.

This is the 'before' picture of my altered wheel project, before I started to shave away maybe too much clay. I had some problems with this footing job. First my project was lopsided, and so I had to take some of the clay of the top, so it wouldn't wobble on the wheel... Then the clay that was holding my project on the wheel would give way and the alter would move off center. Centering this was also hard, since the top isn't round, but rather curvy.

I started on the wheel determinded to make a tall project. I thought I had centered the clay... Turned out it wasn't centered after all. I was going to give a box shape to my altered project, but decided I like this rounder shape better. I turned my "tall" into an altered project by pushing in the walls of my clinder.  I am glad to say that this is my tallest project so far this year!!! I am starting to get the hang of bringing the walls up, I think. Although it's not going to be perfect for a while. The walls on this wheel alter are also too thick to be a tall project...