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Free printables
Paper for the things a potter loses track of. Which glazes went on, when a piece has to come home, how tall a cylinder got this month, how much of the kitchen is handmade so far, and whose name you meant to remember.
Every sheet is free. No email, nothing to buy. Print one, or print twenty.
Making pottery
From the day a lump goes on the wheel to the day the piece goes home, and every number you meant to remember along the way.
One full page for one piece. The clay and its weight, the wet and fired sizes, every glaze in order with its shelf and row, both firings, the kiln ticket size and what to change next time, with a stamp for each stage.
Pairs with Why did my pottery do that
Six pieces a sheet, each with a box to sketch it so you can spot yours on a crowded table. Date every stage from wet clay to home, and copy in the pick-up date the day it comes out of a kiln.
Pairs with The kiln schedule
Four mugs that match get made on paper first. Set the target weight and the wet measurements once, then hold every piece to them and circle the one that came closest.
Pairs with How much clay do I need
A classic wheel drill, on one page. Same clay, same weight, and a dot on the chart every time. Thirty attempts in, the line shows the progress a single pot never does.
Pairs with Proportions and wall thickness
Handmade at home
Plates and mugs, the casserole dish, the soap dish by the sink. Make them one at a time, cross the store-bought ones off as they go, and watch how much of the house turns handmade.
Everything you eat off and drink from, handmade. The everyday set comes first: dinner plates, salad plates, bowls and mugs, four or eight of each, plus a spare. Then pasta and ramen bowls, cups, glasses and the rest, only the ones your table uses.
Pairs with Is my glaze dinnerware safe
The casserole dish, the pie plate, the teapot, the butter dish, the platter that comes out for holidays. Forty-six kitchen pieces in five groups, each with a box for the day the store-bought one goes.
Pairs with Is handmade pottery food safe
The soap dish, the spoon rest, the oil bottle by the stove, the coasters, the planters. Fifty-four everyday things people buy and then find out they can make, sorted room by room.
Pairs with Pottery project ideas
Pick the day you hand it over and work backward, so every gift clears both firings in time. Then track who gets what, stage by stage, down to the wrapping.
Pairs with The kiln schedule
Your first ten sessions
The two trackers from Your First Ten Pottery Sessions, one for the wheel and one for the hand-building tables. Every session has its test printed beside it, and room to repeat it as often as it takes.
All ten wheel sessions from Your First Ten Pottery Sessions, each with its test for moving on and three dated boxes, so repeating a session has somewhere to go. Page two holds the shelf routine, your numbers and a piece log.
Pairs with Your First Ten Pottery Sessions
The same two pages for the tables: pinch, coil, slab and drape, then slab molds, a mug and a piece with a job. Every session has its test, its visit boxes and a line for what you noticed.
Pairs with Your First Ten Pottery Sessions
Glaze
The wall is big, and a result you cannot repeat is a result you only get once.
Six entries a sheet, each with the clay, up to three glazes in order, the coats, brushed or dipped, and a box for the photo. Everything it takes to get the same result twice.
Pairs with Logging your pottery and glazes
Look it up at home and walk straight to it in the studio. Twenty glazes with the shelf and row from the Glaze Finder, the colored dot, and what each one is meant for.
Pairs with The Glaze Finder
The studio and your membership
Every skill on the Skill Tree, every slab mold a member can use, and the sessions you have saved, on paper you can check off.
All sixty-six skills from the Pottery Skill Tree, branch by branch, with a box and a date for each one. The four optional skills are marked.
Pairs with The Pottery Skill Tree
Every slab mold a member can use, grouped the way the Mold Room groups them, with the clay to start with, the slab thickness and the shelf for each one.
Pairs with The Mold Room
Write a date for every class and open studio session, then do one line of math at the end of the month. You always know how many sessions you have saved.
Pairs with How the session tracker works
Selling and the people around you
What a pot really costs before you put a price on it, and the names of the people at the next wheel.
What a pot really costs to make, and what it sold for. The top box turns membership, materials and hours into a floor price for the month, before a single price tag goes on.
Pairs with What a pot actually costs you to make
The studio is full of people worth knowing, and names slip. Eight cards a sheet for the name, how to remember it, the days they come in and the one thing to ask about next time.
Pairs with Twenty seconds of insane courage
Before you print
Every sheet is made for US Letter paper and an ordinary pen. Most are a single page. The Mold Room list and the two first ten sessions trackers take two.
Print at 100 percent, not fit to page, so every box comes out the size it was drawn.
Color only matters for the Level dots on the Mold Room list, and each dot carries its letter too.
A glaze log in the bag you bring to class gets filled in. One in a drawer at home does not.
Every sheet carries the address it came from, and most have a code to scan, so a fresh copy is always one step away.
No month and no year at the top, so a stack printed today still works next year.
The Skill Tree and Mold Room lists name the month they match. The online versions always have the newest.
Online, too
Several of these sheets have a live version on the site that keeps itself current. Use whichever one is closer to hand.
New member deal
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It should land in the next few minutes. One thing while you wait: we are members only and we do not run walk-in tours, so the virtual tour is the closest you can get to standing in one.
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One question
We started in Draper, Utah, and we would like to be in more places than that. Where they go next is the part we have not worked out yet.
Where are you?
That is how we work out where the demand actually is. The rest is so we know who to tell.
Got it
Being straight with you: this could be a long wait, and we will not email you in the meantime. If your area is where the numbers land, you will be the first to know.
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