7. Make a Full Dinner Set

So a running joke is that whenever someone starts pottery they immediately want to make an entire dinner set. However, plates are one of the most unforgiving pieces of pottery to make since learning how to keep something flat and preventing it from cracking or warping is really hard.

The full list of what I am going to make is:

4 Iced Tea glasses

1 Set of Salt and Pepper Shakers

1 Butter Dish

4 Saucers

4 Soup Bowls

4 Pasta Bowls/Blates

4 Dipping Bowls

1 Iced Tea Pitcher

4 Whisky Glasses

My plan is to make everything in a white stoneware, which has a lower shrinkage rate and tends to be easier to work with in larger and wider sizes, which will be helpful for the iced tea pitcher and the pasta bowls/blates. I've sketched out some designs, but this will be (unlike most dinner sets) a custom collection of dinnerware the way I prefer to cook. So the bowls will be deep for soups, there will be whisky glasses because I enjoy drinking whisky with friends, and an iced tea pitcher instead of a water pitcher, because when I cook I like serving iced tea. I'm not planning on making serving dishes as of yet, just the dinnerware, but we'll see how this project goes!