I found another tutorial. But I don't remember the adress.

There you built the shape of half your jug. mug or cup. whatever you wanna make and uses the spin function. then you extrude from that form the handles. using make vertixes and fill faces to join one part of the handle to the other one.

By using the knife function you can also make the edges more marked. then you just aplay subsurf to get it nice and smooth. :)

Hope it helped. It was just a different way of making it.