Irritable Bowl Syndrome

Oh my. Hilarious.

Anyway. Here is the little collection of bowls I am making. The first is from a silver birch which grew in my mum's garden.. it nearly became a bangle after this photo was taken due to an accident with the band-saw but I was lucky and it was just okay.. I really like the grain.

And up next is some Cherry hardwood which had been artificially dried. I wanted to try turning some non-green wood and I don't recommended, it was terrifying to lathe for my 2nd ever bowl (plate) as it splintered and chipped and generally didn't co-operate.

This one I haven't even finished yet but as I'm hoping to experiment with natural staining, I thought I'd better put a picture up before it changes.. it's possibly lime wood but I'm not certain. I think it's going to be very lightweight which is interesting. Not such a fan of the grain though, has that 'I'm a bit mouldy' look to it. This is possibly because it is.

Spoon carving

At the beginning of the summer, I went to a spoon carving workshop by Nic Webb which was so much fun and I made a spoon out of the branch of a lime tree and then we got to take another piece of wood home with us to practice on; so here are my two creations, the one I made there reminds me of a giant goldilocks spoon.

I spent about a week on the second one trying to remember how I made the first one.

Carving of spoon number 3 began a few weeks ago but it's a bit of a work in progress so I'll post another time about that one..