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Workaday Handmade began as an hour of time Lewinger would devote each day, during the lunch break from his day job, to throwing all sorts of small bright-blue vessels in experimental shapes, which his friends and family began clamoring for. In the years since, though, his body of work has grown immensely, all because he couldn’t bear to part with those early experiments. “At the moment, every piece I’ve ever come up with is sitting in the studio right now,” he noted on the day we visited.