LADIES & GENTS, TIME TO GET YOUR POTHOLDERS ON!
These were my submissions for last year’s potholder swap (2011). I made cathedral window potholders, they have a bit of a modern vintage feel, which I love.
There are Ravelry forums full of fun chatter & photos for the upcoming 2012 swap here.
Watches, all shapes, all sizes, but mostly Swatch.
It began for me in the late 80’s, I was a teen with some extra christmas money and a fateful trip to Daytons in the mall. I remember they only had a few styles to choose from, ideally I wanted 2 so I could wear them at the same time, but they were around $40 EACH! Damn that is almost all my cash! Ok, I‘ll take the black one with the little moon & house. So the obsession began. Later my husband added to my collection by giving me that lovely pale pink Irony…
20+ years later, I now have a collection and just this past Christmas I bought my daughter her first swatch (Touch) and as a teen with extra Christmas money and a fateful trip the Mall of America (which happens to have a full SWATCH store) she used her extra cash to by a 2nd swatch and just like me she had a tough time choosing the perfect one.
A blue valentine.
I’ve been smitten, well maybe ridiculously fixated, with a little crochet heart from an old workbasket magazine, the “heart in crochet” from Vol. 24, No. 5 February 1959 to be exact! (Ravelry page for the original) I have a few issues of workbasket, but mine are all from the 40’s. So while totally obsessing on that heart, I stumbled across this pineapple crochet heart pattern, it worked up perfectly and completely soothed my crazy for the original heart.
important things of note:
1. While not completely identical to the workbasket heart, when done in thread…it’s almost a perfect match! The only difference, this pattern has one less shell under the pineapple bit & a few less spokes on the base of the pineapple.
2. I used a 1.65mm (7) hook & #10 thread (if you want it bigger use the patterns suggested 4mm (G) hook and corresponding yarn)
3. When you get to row 11, you will be just working ½ the heart (basically 1 hump) you’ll break yarn at the end of row 14. Then reattach on the other side to finish the other hump (the line after row 14 that begins with “right side facing” should have a ch 2 after “st sh in same space”
4. If you like my postage stamp edging, here is how I worked it…on round 2 of the border work a sc, ch2, sc in each ch3 space. Would be sweet with any border!
5. Mine measure 3½ wide x 3¾” tall (I didn’t block or starch it..but you could:)
6. I will probably still buy every single copy of workbasket I run across..but its good to remove one knotch from my crochet ocd belt!
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