After Sheryl made her first "customized" pot, the one with the dinosaur for our good fiend Pat Ward, she began to incubate ideas. About that time we were invited to the wedding of Quinn Hummel and Katie Vashaw. Quinn is the son of another good friend, Dave Hummel, and we have known Quinn since he was about a year old and he is a wonderful young man just finishing up dental school. Sheryl wondered if for a wedding gift she could do another personalized pot. But what design? Dave and Quinn have spent hours and hours fishing the rivers of Oregon together for those beautiful wild steelhead. They truly are magnificent fish and the most prized of all fish here in the Pacific Northwest. It seems that a couple of seasons ago Dave caught a 20-pounder, the fish of a lifetime, and decided to have it mounted (that's another good story). He finally received the mount and proudly displays it in his home on Klamath Lake. I had taken photos of the fish and we decided it would be just the ticket to serve as the design on this special wedding pot for Quinn and Katie.
The Wedding Gift
Rear View
The "leftover" pot
In case the pot fell victim to one of the many bad things that can happen to pots in their creation, she actually made two, hoping that at least one would survive the workshop, the firing, and the packing up. As luck would have it, both turned out beautifully so she gave her favorite to the Bride and G
room and the "leftover" to Dave, to display with his fish.
