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Hot Stuff - An Old Fashioned Pot Holder
If you like to bake and do a lot of cooking then you need good, thick pot holders. And you need a few of them in different sizes. I have small pot holders, barely big enough to cover my fingers. I have larger ones that cover my hand and wrists and then I have the huge pot holders I use for lifting my large baking dish and biggest casseroles out of the oven.
I love them all, but my very favourites are the handmade, old fashioned ones that have been crocheted out of pure wool. They are really thick and sturdy but they are attractive too. They are nice enough to have hanging on hooks near the oven and they add to the character of my kitchen.
This retro pot holder is very simple and is a great way to practice crocheting for beginners. It takes a small amount of yarn so it's a great way to use up leftover balls of wool from other projects. A beginner can whip one up in just a couple of evenings in front of the TV! Experienced crocheters can knock one out in an evening - it really is that quick and easy.
Be sure to use pure wool to crochet your pot holder. Pure wool will cope with the heat and if it is accidentally left near or on an open flame it will smoulder, unlike synthetic yarns that will melt and burn or cotton that will burst into flames.
Hot Stuff Pot Holder
You will need:
8 ply wool (make sure it is pure wool, see above)
4mm crochet hook
Instructions:
Make 42 chain.
First row: Skip first three chain (these will form the first bar in the pattern). Half treble into the next chain. Continue to end of row, make two chain. Turn.
Work 27 rows. Cast off, but do not fasten off. Make 7 chain, then 1 double crochet into the cast off stitch, turn. This forms the loop hanger. Work 10 double crochet around the loop, with the last one in the cast off stitch. Fasten off.
Scalloped Edge:
Starting at one corner work 1 double crochet in next chain, 3 treble in next chain, 1 double crochet in next chain, skip next chain. Repeat pattern until last chain before loop. Skip this chain, slip stitch into loop and fasten off.
Using the crochet hook weave ends of thread into pot holder.
Embroidery:
Using a contrasting wool and working in stem stitch or cross stitch, work the words "HOT STUFF" onto centre of pot holder.
I love them all, but my very favourites are the handmade, old fashioned ones that have been crocheted out of pure wool. They are really thick and sturdy but they are attractive too. They are nice enough to have hanging on hooks near the oven and they add to the character of my kitchen.
This retro pot holder is very simple and is a great way to practice crocheting for beginners. It takes a small amount of yarn so it's a great way to use up leftover balls of wool from other projects. A beginner can whip one up in just a couple of evenings in front of the TV! Experienced crocheters can knock one out in an evening - it really is that quick and easy.
Be sure to use pure wool to crochet your pot holder. Pure wool will cope with the heat and if it is accidentally left near or on an open flame it will smoulder, unlike synthetic yarns that will melt and burn or cotton that will burst into flames.
Hot Stuff Pot Holder
You will need:
8 ply wool (make sure it is pure wool, see above)
4mm crochet hook
Instructions:
Make 42 chain.
First row: Skip first three chain (these will form the first bar in the pattern). Half treble into the next chain. Continue to end of row, make two chain. Turn.
Work 27 rows. Cast off, but do not fasten off. Make 7 chain, then 1 double crochet into the cast off stitch, turn. This forms the loop hanger. Work 10 double crochet around the loop, with the last one in the cast off stitch. Fasten off.
Scalloped Edge:
Starting at one corner work 1 double crochet in next chain, 3 treble in next chain, 1 double crochet in next chain, skip next chain. Repeat pattern until last chain before loop. Skip this chain, slip stitch into loop and fasten off.
Using the crochet hook weave ends of thread into pot holder.
Embroidery:
Using a contrasting wool and working in stem stitch or cross stitch, work the words "HOT STUFF" onto centre of pot holder.
These fit perfectly in the Handmade Christmas theme, and can be made using yarn from your stash, so they are basically free (the cost of the yarn, if you bought it, was absorbed into the cost of the first item you made with it).
In these times of rising prices, who doesn't like to give a beautiful, handmade gift, that cost nothing but a little time!
If you have a lot of scraps, make a set of two or three or four, and team them with tea towels for a lovely gift. Or work in different colours for a striped pot holder and use lots of scraps up.
In these times of rising prices, who doesn't like to give a beautiful, handmade gift, that cost nothing but a little time!
If you have a lot of scraps, make a set of two or three or four, and team them with tea towels for a lovely gift. Or work in different colours for a striped pot holder and use lots of scraps up.