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Anyone watching this pottery programme with Sara Cox?

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SwedishEdith · 03/11/2015 21:10

Love ceramics so hope I'm going to enjoy this one.

Can you just dig up clay from your garden to make a pot?

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VegetablEsoup · 08/12/2015 21:50

matthews teaset looks a bit boring.
such a shame about sally-jo's breakages

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SwedishEdith · 08/12/2015 21:51

It was a little dull but they couldn't really fault it.

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VegetablEsoup · 08/12/2015 21:51

tom is my favourite teaset.

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SwedishEdith · 08/12/2015 21:52

Oh, could be Jim. Is there a link between tears and winner?

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/12/2015 21:52

I thought it was lovely, they way they all helped Sally-Jo.

I like Matthew's set - and Tom's - especially the colour! Not so keen on Jim's twisty handles - I think they would be quite difficult to use.

And Jim has a neat bottom - Wink

Oh, oohhhh - blub-alert!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/12/2015 21:53
SecretBondGirl · 08/12/2015 21:54

Working with porcelain is like working with fondant icing

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/12/2015 21:55

And the winner of the ugly jug is ....

SecretBondGirl · 08/12/2015 21:57

Matthews hardly an amateur potter he's grown up living and breathing pottery. Tom is much better I'd buy his work

florentina1 · 08/12/2015 21:59

Go Matthew so pleased he won

Raahh · 08/12/2015 22:00

It was an ugly jugGrin

I love the 'what they did next bit...'

I have enjoyed this. Now, when is Sewing Bee back on?Grin I love crafty programmes like these- I can't bake/sew/pot but I really like watching them.

PigeonPie · 08/12/2015 22:02

I've enjoyed it too. I can bake and sew, but I've never done anything with clay (apart from at Junior school which I don't think counts!).

I hope they do another series.

Re Sewing Bee, I assume that will be in six months or so as the closing date for applications was only last month.

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SwedishEdith · 08/12/2015 22:04

Apparently, the pottery where it's filmed is booked up again for next year Smile

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/12/2015 22:04

I thought it was going to be Tom - and I think you are right that Matthew is not really an amateur. I like him though - he grew on me, and his tea set was good.

I am just glad it wasn't Jim, though - he was just a bit too sure he was going to win.

DoreenLethal · 08/12/2015 22:35

Woo hoo - glad Matthew won. I loved his tea set, frustrum of a cone. One of my favourite 3d shapes.

chicaguapa · 08/12/2015 22:53

I think Tom's set was the only one that looked like it had been made with porcelain. Matthew's was too chunky IMO. But... he'd been the most consistent throughout and I suspect he won because of that, not because of the final main make.

iwantanewcar · 08/12/2015 22:56

Slight shame. I loved Sally Jo's glaze and colour, Tom's was lovely - beautiful styling and colour again and also v technical. I thought Matthew's was dull. He is a lovely young man, but gosh I do feel that he has been "promoted" to win somehow. He is semi-professional - I am not sure that is quite in the spirit of the competition.

Looking forward to next year!

TheSpottedZebra · 08/12/2015 23:06

Did they actually say that they were looking for an amateur though? Didn't they say 'budding potter'?

I loved Matthew - and thought that he was just a bit shy and very self-contained, not rude at all. He seemed to have a bit of banter with Tom, who I thought was a smug twat at first, although did eventually warm to him. They all seemed nice, and it was good to see that the one who'd dropped out, was back for the gallery bit,so she's hopefully well. And she's started running classes! I do always like seeing what they've been up to since filming in these formats.

Dipankrispaneven · 09/12/2015 00:34

I think Matthew thoroughly deserved to win, he clearly really understands pottery and clay and is very creative. I agree his issue is shyness, which isn't at all incompatible with being an art teacher. He's not a professional, as he doesn't work making pottery all day every day - his occupation is art teaching, of which pottery is only a pretty small element; and when you're teaching, you're not making anything, you're helping others to make things.

NHSisfubar · 09/12/2015 01:21

I'm glad Matthew won; he was my favourite by far and had much more of a natural empathy for the materials than any of the others. He is just shy I think not at all smug. That's how I read him anyway!

LovelyFriend · 09/12/2015 10:45

I couldn't call the winner at all - either of them could have won.

Matthew seems very sweet. But I am not at all a fan of his glazing (all very 70's retro and not in a good way) and I thought his garden sculpture to be a monstrous mess - Sally Jo was robbed there.

LovelyFriend · 09/12/2015 10:46

ANY of them I mean

WotNoLoobrush · 10/12/2015 21:18

Only just managed to watch.

I thought Tom's teaset was the best but loved the pattern of Jim's. I agree that Tom's is the only one that looks like porcelain.

I hope there is another series.

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