Great pottery throwdown 2025

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Anyone watching?

I think Johnathan for POTW just because James can't keep getting it. But I think James should start making those mushroom lamps. Mushrooms are very trendy.

To go is Immy I think because over the weeks Francesca has been stronger.
I'm slightly behind due to toilet breaks!

Imy has done really well, I think they said she's only been doing pottery for a year which is pretty amazing.

Very close call for Francesca though!

Same, same.

Francesca was second in the second challenge, so may have helped swing it for her. And her sweet corn kernels did look amazing.

I wanted Jonathan to get potter of the week, ah well. James’s creation was lovely.

Just caught up. I didn't really like Jonathan's a huge deal but I adore him so its' all good with me.

Jonathan's and Steve's lamps were the only ones that had a sense of 'lamp' to me.

I would not choose a vegetable lamp, but James’ was the best to lol at. I absolutely hated Jonathan’s, I couldn’t tell what it was and it was so ugly.

Are mushrooms even vegetables? Surely they’re fungi which is completely different.

@OccasionalHope - we did have a discussion about it on our couch too. The consensus was that they’re vegetables in a culinary sense rather than a botanical one, so we’d go with it.

James made the better lamp but I’d have loved Jonathan to get it for sheer heart. Imy’s card was marked by being 6th in the throwing challenge against Francesca’s 2nd place, I think.

It’s a lovely show.

I’m very late watching this week’s but I do have a burning question. If you make a bowl with 5kg of clay does that mean the bowl will weigh 5kg when it’s finished and fired? What could you use it for? Where would be strong enough to store it?

No, it will be lighter after firing because the process dries out the clay and water makes the clay heavier.

You loose a certain amount of clay as it's thrown on the wheel. Then even more when it's trimmed. It then looses weight as it dries ams it fired (a fairly substantial amount). Some weight is added with the glaze. For a 5kg starting point, the end result can vary wildly but will never be anywhere near 5kg.

Evening all!

Evening all

Evening!

Evening all

Evening. Looking forward to their representations of Stoke.

Jonathan’s ideas sound great - hope they work in practice.

Especially as one of them has forgotten it's actually 6 towns and missed out Fenton already.

Steve’s bird sketches are fab.

I like the witch idea.

There's some info on Molly Leigh here

How many baths do we think will end up attached to the plinth (I know they don’t always give the pot is sufficient time, so not necessarily their fault)?

That link doesn't work for me, I'll look her up as I'd never even heard of her!

I love Rich-but everything he says has a touch of "Remember, your course work has to be in by the 27th a the latest" to it.....

I'm dying at some of these 😂

This is a hard challenge