I'm teaching a Spring Pottery Class (Handbuilding) in Northern Manhattan, Washington Heights / Inwood

Thursdays (10 classes, March 5th-May 7th), 7-10pm

Handbuilding Class. Artist's approach to clay. In a friendly & fun setting we will use pinching, coiling & slabbing techniques to make functional & decorative wares. Great for beginners, but open to all experience levels. **Time permitting, will offer basic wheel instruction.

***We're located in Our Saviour's Atonement Lutheran Church (parking lot level) at 178 Bennett Avenue in Washington Heights, New York City.

*Contact me at corimorenberg@hotmail.com for more information or to register.

Pottery Making Update

I am getting in a a good bit of potting, enjoying this in-between time--after the holidays and our sale and before we begin teaching classes at the studio the first week of March.

The temperature got into the low 50s yesterday, or they said it did. It didn't feel that warm to me despite the bright sun because there was a wicked cold wind blowing most of the day. It was nice at the studio, though, where I spent several hours of my afternoon with the door wide open, inviting passersby in the parking lot to stop in. Several people took the hint and wandered in to look and talk for a few minutes.

Here are pictures of my most recent pinched pottery creations. Neither of them are finished here, but I'm slowly filling the shelf with greenware to be bisqued and glazed, so soon, soon. I hope one day to call myself a prolific potter, but at present I'd probably best be compared to the tortoise of Aesop's Fable's fame.

Back at it -- Knitting a scarf

After a too-long hiatus I got back to knitting this morning. This purple scarf is nearly complete and I have 3 other projects nearly finished that I will focus on after this scarf is done.

With the aim of becoming a more consistent knitter I've decided to do a trial visit to a new neighborhood knitting group that meets Monday nights at a coffee house. I'll get there an hour late because I'm committed to a dance class I've been enjoying recently, but I have a feeling they go beyond their 2 hour scheduled time, and even if it is just an hour I get there, it's better than nothing. It will keep me accountable to my knitting and maybe I'll make new friends.

Should I even mention the website? Geez. Yes, I continue to work on it. My husband thinks it's fantasy. Basically I'm patching it together as I get time here and there, like an old quilt. Soon, soon. Most of what's finished is up.

Off to knit a few more rows, then on to the pottery studio.