Pot holders
Written by Elisabeth on January 26, 2009 – 20:40 -
Pot holder in progress!
A while back I bought some white and green cotton yarn called “Mandarin” because I wanted to make a baby jacket for a friend of mine. What I had not counted upon (especially as the smiling woman in the store swore this was easy as pie to to) was that I simply did not manage to knit the jacket. I have tried several times, and the whole thing is too loose, to chunky, too strange or i just feel like the yarn is splitting into several finer threads making my life miserable and the jacket into an unholy mess. Once my mum glanced at my feeble attempt and promptly frogged the entire thing!
The baby this jacket was intended for is now 2 years old and wont fit it anymore. But seeing that I’m becoming an aunt (again - love those little rascals) I picked up the knitting needles and the “Mandarin” and tried again. To no avail I might add - it was a total mess again, and certainly did no wonders for my self esteem…!
But then a friend told me that it’s rather hard to knit well for a beginner with this yarn, and she suggested I buy some baby wool instead and then give the jacket another go. I decided to do that, but that left me with quite a bit of green and white cotton yarn - and what to do with it.
So - I decided upon pot holders. The ones I have are old, worn and have stains no washing liquid will remove so I needed new ones anyways. On the internet I found a lovely recipe for old fashioned pot holders. The recipe is in Norwegian.
And to my surprise they are quite simple to make. They do take forever though considering I use 2,5mm knitting needles, but I have time and several episodes of Gossip Girl on my tvix.
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