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Will Abraham
@willabrahampottery.bsky.social
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bookworm, potter, whittler, and horror movie enthusiast with an MLIS, raising house plants and chihuahuas in the PNW

Studio: @starflowerstudios.bsky.social

Gallery: @goodearthpottery.bsky.social

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Playing with weird new mug ideas - I’m firing electric for a while, and starting to work with color that isn’t brown or green (gasp!), and that seems to be inspiring a shakeup of form, too.
A greenware stoneware mug with a ledge bisecting the rim and handle on a banding wheel. An overhead shot of an unfired stoneware mug with a horizontal line bisecting the interior and continuing up onto the handle. The foot of an unfired mug with a line bisecting it vertically, with an artist’s signature on the right half of the foot and three square tripod feet on the other side
August 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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If anybody’s looking for me I’ll just be making tiny little scrap jars that bring me immense joy until 2029.
A 2.5 inch tall greenware jar with a lid with a small angular knob. Its surface has a rocky texture made out of black, white, grey, and yellow clays sitting in the center of a blue banding wheel.
August 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I’m not dead, I’ve just been working on this show with my friends, now up at @goodearthpottery.bsky.social featuring spoons & surface carving by me, cups & glazes by @atteberryclayworks.bsky.social, coasters by @emikomay.bsky.social, and plates & salt/pepper shakers by @phasesoftheyoon.bsky.social
A blue obelisk pepper shaker and an amber pyramid salt shaker sit on a blue, black, and white coaster. Two cups, one blue and one amber, and a small porcelain bowl sit on a riser. A stack of blue plates with rocky rims and crystals on the surface sit under a cherry spoon with a wiggly handle. Other tableware with similar motifs is visible in the background.
June 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Today’s SIP - walnut.

#spooncarving #spoons #spoonsinprogress #whittling #woodcarving
A walnut spoon with a curved, ribbed handle and a diamond shaped bowl sits next to a Morakniv spoon knife.
April 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Yesterday’s SIP (spoon in progress)

Having fun with these wiggly handles.

#woodcarving #spoon #workinprogress
April 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Slowly but surely my @starflowerstudios.bsky.social space is coming together, just in time for a glazeathon.
April 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Just another little guy in progress for a firing coming up in May. Who knew making little guys would be this soothing? My recent practice has been to listen to a news update, then make a little guy, rinse, repeat.

#ceramics #greenware #pottery #sculpture
April 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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When you’ve run out of excuses (and space) to avoid glazing

#bisque #pottery #ceramics
A white shelf with bisqueware pots of various shapes and sizes on it
April 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Increasingly complete collection update

(Every one needs a hobby, no?)

#dolantools #toolnerd #potterytools
Five Dolan Tools knives on a green table
March 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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A tiny porcelain Trex with googly eyes and a gigantic butt, for some reason, made out of Takamori trimming scraps and waiting to be woodfired.

#ceramics #pottery #starflowerstudios #dinosaurart #greenware #worksinprogress
March 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Am I having NCECA fomo? Yes. Did I also finally find online the one Dolan tool I’ve been looking for for 4 years to complete my collection that coincidentally arrived at the same time? Also yes.

#dolantools #toolnerd #pottersofbluesky
Will’s hand is holding a Dolan Tools 220c flexible blade knife with a cherry handle over a cardboard box with visible packing material
March 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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After I made this and actually looked at it I started laughing so hard that my husband and dog both heard and came in to my studio, concerned.

#pottery #greenware #worksinprogress #potterofbluesky
An inexplicable stoneware bottle made from multiple clays with an organic stony texture
March 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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SIP (spoon in progress)

#spoon #whittling #workinprogress
The back of a Mulberry spoon with a wiggly handle, and circular grain pattern The front of a Mulberry spoon with a wiggly handle and circular grain pattern
March 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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A work in progress - been working on these angly little cafe mugs for ages, but I think I finally made the right decisions on the shape, size, and handle. I’ve got a bunch of these that’ll be fired in wood/soda in almost exactly a month.

#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics #mug
March 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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When things are slow, I sometimes start carving little spoons. If only clay were as portable and easy to clean up!
A pile of small curled basswood shavings on a brown piece of paper on a marbled counter top
March 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Sometimes it’s rainy outside and you’ve got a little lump of clay left after coiling something big and so you just need to make a silly little guy. Thinking of making a t-rex and brontosaurus to go with him.
#handbuilding #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #triceratops
March 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Update: Saved it! (Still greenware, just bone dry now)
A 5 inch high planter with sharp geometric angles and folds. A 5 inch high planter with sharp geometric angles and folds seen from above.
March 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Spent a productive afternoon carving planters and plates and couldn’t resist documenting this one perfect spiral from carving a perfectly leather hard porcelain plate

#pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #claynerd #porcelain #artprocess
March 8, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Juicy little geologic lever teacup. I’ve made so many of these in the past few months, tinkering with the design & surface texture. They’re getting there.This one is Clay Art Center’s Takamori, soda fired to ^10.

#sodafiredpottery #pottery #ceramics #handbuilt #porcelain #pottersofbluesky
A short cup with a flat lever handle and a defined ridge on the side and a asymmetrical rim with shiny black and green soda crystals covering it An angular short cup with a lever handle and a defined ridge on the side with an asymmetrical rim and a cobblestone pattern on the side
March 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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I used to make a lot of these charred wood-esque pots, and I recently came back to it with all the extra space I have at @starflowerstudios.bsky.social. This sculptural bowl is available now at @goodearthpottery.bsky.social!
#ceramics #pottersofbluesky #pottery #sculpturalpots #cohortsdotart
A wide deep bowl made of a brown and yellow groggy clay with bricklike pattern of black crackled strips of clay and a swooping asymmetrical rim A wide deep bowl made of a brown and yellow groggy clay with bricklike pattern of black crackled strips of clay and a swooping asymmetrical rim A close up of the bowl’s texture. A yellow brown background and black slip strips with a finely crackled pattern.
March 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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We interrupt the ceramics and occasional book talk and the general misery out there to brag that all of my monstera clippings are beginning to grow roots successfully.
A monstera stem in water buds from aerial roots underwater A monstera stem in water buds from aerial roots underwater A monstera stem in water buds from aerial roots underwater
February 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days.

20. The final day! Tree stump vase. Bare Akio clay soda fired to ^6

#20pots #ceramics #sodafired #pottery #claycohorts
February 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Coiled this weird asymmetrical planter at @starflowerstudios.bsky.social yesterday… and promptly destroyed it by going a bit too far altering the bottom. Win some, lose some, reclaim many.

#ceramics #starflowerstudios #pottery #cohortsdotart #coiledpots
February 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days.
(I might have forgot for a few days…)

19. Soda fired little shot glass that the kiln treated just right. Dakota White with a shino glaze and a rutile glaze around the rim.

#sodafiredpottery #20pots #pottersofbluesky
A shot glass with a two runners on the foot and an organic rim with gold, turquoise, and purple glaze trails.
February 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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This little guy survived the bisque, but he doesn’t seem happy about it (I am, though!)

#pottersofbluesky #blackclay #sculptures #lnlkiln
A small sculpture of a fat little animal that resembles a lemur or raccoon dog or tanuki with a startled expression made out of black clay sits on an electric kiln shelf with another pot visible in front of him and kiln elements visible behind.
February 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM