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my brother plays baseball and always drinks hot chocolate so I wanted to make a mug for him. I used one of his baseball gloves as a reference as well as simplified online images. I also added 2 baseballs on the sides

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I rolled out a slab and a bottom piece and then slip and scored them together

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I rolled out another slab, and before attaching it, I cut it into this glove-like shape

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From the back, you can see that I started to carve out separate fingers

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From the front, you can see I started to curve them like the shape of a glove, still not attached

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I smoothed out the surface of the mug, and added slight indentations

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Then I made two circular discs and slipped and scored them onto the indents. I smoothed them out a little so they look rounded

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Next I added these curved lines for laces. I thought I wasn't going to finish so originally planned to just leave them, but later fixed them

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I used a wooden knife tool to press seams into the baseball to give it more detail

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I changed the way I was going to attach the mug to reduce the weight and make it more secure. I also made a groove down the fingers and made an open back. I also tapered the fingers so they weren't so blocky

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Originally I quickly made and attached a slab with a criss-cross drawn on it, but it was not realistic and looked pretty bad

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So I redid that part using a rubber sheet with a basket pattern and re-attached it (I cleaned it up later)

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I added both sets of laces by creating holes and then creating little flattened coils and using slip to attach them as shown. This was an improvement from my original plan of the single layer of laces

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I don't have a picture, but I rolled out a coil and then tapped on it to make a rectangular handle. I used the half-heart shape and attached it to my mug

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The first time I went through and sealed the handle on so there were no cracks. The second time I rounded the edge of the handle and continued to smooth it out

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Its hard to see, but lastly, I went around my whole mug and re-leveled the bottom and smoothed out all of the sides first with a loop tool then with a damp sponge