A wobbly plant pot

Having finally managed to make my macrame plant pot holder, the next job was to make a wobbly plant pot to go in it.

I wanted to try to make something a little more rounded than I’ve made in the past. I started with coils and quickly realised that wasn’t the right way to go so went back to pinching. I was using a much larger ball of clay than I usually use for pinching and my hands are quite small so I was finding it challenging to make the rounded bottom that I wanted.

I came up with the idea of using a steel bowl and a ladle. The steel bowl helped me to get started on rounding out the bottom of the pot and then I took it out and used the ladle to push out the bottom of the pot to get the rounded shape I wanted. Working with the pot in the steel bowl was also nice as it allowed me to spin the pot as I worked with my hands. I soon had quite a pleasing rounded shape and left the pot to dry.

A week later the pot was ready to paint and I put on a couple of layers of white paint. The finish of the pot is quite rough and this is accentuated by the paint…the flaws stand out. However, I actually quite like it like this, as opposed to a smooth flawless finish. The nice thing about hand building things is those little nicks and dinks and finger prints…it’s obvious it’s hand made.

I’m really pleased with the rounded shape I managed to achieve. I also decided that I’d leave the pot white instead of using any fancy paint finishes. The plant and the macrame are going to be the stars here.