Now I will be honest with you, for a while I have been cruising the American pattern websites and spotted a number of potholder patterns. I just didn’t get it. Why so many? Who used them? In the kitchens of my contemporaries you would be hard pressed to find a ‘potholder’. So whilst I have seen many fun little patterns, I couldn’t really see the point of one. What a fool I have been. About a fortnight ago, I was making pasta, and nearly scalded my hand removing the saucepan lid. The oven mits are way too cumbersome for this job and I couldn’t find a teacloth (do not try that idiotic trick at home folks)
Then it dawned on me, ‘A potholder would be perfect for this little job’. Immediately I set to, with an oddment of stash yarn and ….tadahhhh, a fully functioning, very plain potholder. Excellent. I think in Britain we used potholders more when our kettles were boiled on the stove as opposed to the electric kettle.
Yes, yes I know it doesn’t go with my kitchen, but it was all I had to hand. I made the pot holder double thickness. I will continue to do this as I don’t believe that a single thickness holder would protect my hand sufficiently. But oh, the little mind is racing and I have a number of very kitsch ideas up my sleeve for other such trinkets. I can only apologize in advance.
Don’t apologise – the kitscher the better – can’t wait to see what yuo come up with. Also pleased to see you’ve discovered pot holders, so useful and a great way to use up the stash.
Tx
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