Pot holder geek?

Knitnetty calls herself a pot holder geek. There are more of us out here... Not the worst thing to be, or what? (Btw, I just started crocheting Knitnetty's pot holder for the Pot holder swap. You have till September 1st to join.)

On a Swedish crochet blog, I found a pot holder give away. I want to win the blue ones! (I like the red ones too, but will be receiving four red pot holders in the swap.) The winners will be announced on September 1st also.

Here's a pot holder I saw at Fretex second hand shop recently. Old pot holders are really small. But with thicker yarn, these would make useful pot holders. There are probably many patterns like this available, or you could just look at the photo. Somebody know of a pattern link?

Vintage pot holder from Fretex

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Pot holder week - day 3 - a visit to "Mågebua"

Annepålandet has shown some of her old crochet pot holders, and so has Misemor.


I don't have any old pot holders, but look what I saw on a small island in the south of Norway this summer:

This is "Mågebua" on Sælør.

What a collection of vintage crochet pot holders!

Pot holder week - day 2

Does anyone recognise this pattern? Have you seen a pot holder like this, or do you know what magazine it was published in? Around 1960 is my guess.



I think my mother made a pot holder like this around fifty years ago (before I was born, that is). She gave me the pattern many years ago, and I have saved it, but not yet tried it.

Is it wrong to share the pattern here, or is it so old that it's ok (I'm thinking of copyright issues.)

New knitting book

My husband seems to mean I don't need another knitting book. The book shelf tends to agree with him...

But this is a wonderful book with so many nice patterns. I fell for this one, bot knitted and crocheted.

This cute top is a fave, too:

These were the patterns that prompted me to order the book, but there is so much more (59 patterns in total, to be exact).

What about these?

Or this one, in ribbing? I have not casted on for anything yet, having way too many WIPs at the moment, as you can see in the sidebar.

The book is "A Stitch In Time, Knitting and Crochet Patterns, 1920-1949 Vol. 1" by Jane Waller and Susan Crawford (aka justcallmeruby), from knitonthenet. I baought the book from their online store.