I've only seen two people make them: Knit Witch and Potter Knitter. I like Knit Witch's design better because you can easily remove a work in progress from the bowl, since there's a slit through which to feed your yarn instead of a hole.
I wanted one just for the sake of having it. I was in a pottery gallery one day, and I saw this bowl:
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I thought it was so pretty that I just had to buy it and use it as a yarn bowl. It doesn't have the hole/slit in the side, but who cares. It still holds the yarn and keeps it from rolling around. Ok, I guess I could use ANY bowl for that, but then it wouldn't be pretty...and handmade...and special.
I love the colors. There was also a black/white version of this bowl. I think that I might buy it later. I like my bowl so much that I'm tempted to give some away as gifts to some of my knitting friends.
My bowl was handmade by a potter from North Carolina's historic potter's community known as Seagrove. The local gallery that I bought my bowl from -which sells many SeaGrove potters' works-is Seagrove Pottery.
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