{made} — vintage kitchen set I think I am in love with this pattern, it’s so easy to memorize you can work up a potholder basically anywhere. I made two with an opposite color theme, plus two flower coasters to accompany them. You can find both patterns on ravelry: the potholder pattern here, and the flower pattern here. These will perk up any kitchen!

{made} — vintage kitchen set

I think I am in love with this pattern, it’s so easy to memorize you can work up a potholder basically anywhere. I made two with an opposite color theme, plus two flower coasters to accompany them. You can find both patterns on ravelry: the potholder pattern here, and the flower pattern here. These will perk up any kitchen!

04/25/2011 fiber art, crochet, home, kitchen potholders coasters
{made} — green trivet set This was surprisingly a very simple pattern to make, it looked far more difficult before reading the instructions. I started off making these as potholders but they aren’t very thick and they have quite a few holes so not sure how effective they’d be as pot holders. Instead, with the modifications below, they became what I think are cute trivets. I left really long tails when finishing the pot holder and used it to weave through the wrong sides to seam up the sections just below where you join the petals around the edge. I joined them twice in each gap and then ran the yarn under the stitches in the fold to the next gap. Doing so really sturdied them up and they held together better. I think as a set, they’ll look pretty out on the table at a family get-together. This pattern is available for free online.

{made} — green trivet set

This was surprisingly a very simple pattern to make, it looked far more difficult before reading the instructions.

I started off making these as potholders but they aren’t very thick and they have quite a few holes so not sure how effective they’d be as pot holders. Instead, with the modifications below, they became what I think are cute trivets.

I left really long tails when finishing the pot holder and used it to weave through the wrong sides to seam up the sections just below where you join the petals around the edge. I joined them twice in each gap and then ran the yarn under the stitches in the fold to the next gap. Doing so really sturdied them up and they held together better.

I think as a set, they’ll look pretty out on the table at a family get-together.

This pattern is available for free online.

12/28/2010 crochet trivet potholders kitchen flower fiber art
{made} — potholders. These two crocheted potholders were made for the fun swap we did at Wildfiber yarn store in Santa Monica on July 10, 2010. Everyone made two and then drew two random ones from the pile to take home. Great way to meet some fellow fiber artists! :) Pattern available for free on Ravelry. {photography: Jill Cannon}

{made} — potholders.

These two crocheted potholders were made for the fun swap we did at Wildfiber yarn store in Santa Monica on July 10, 2010. Everyone made two and then drew two random ones from the pile to take home. Great way to meet some fellow fiber artists! :)

Pattern available for free on Ravelry.

{photography: Jill Cannon}

07/30/2010 homemade, crochet kitchen potholders wildfiber swap
made — vintage kitchen towels These three knitted kitchen towels were mother’s day presents this year. Usually the thought of knitting a kitchen towel sounds so boring and lame, but this pattern looked so fun and unique I had to give it a try. And, I love them! I see myself making a few more in the future because they are so quick and easy to do — It helps that every RS row is a decrease row, speeding up the project as you go along making it fly by! I used Debbie Bliss Pure Cotton yarn because it was so ridiculously soft and came in such beautiful colors, but I was pretty disappointed in the quality especially for the price. It had a lot of pilling while working with it and 5 out of the 7 balls of yarn I used for these towels had multiple joining knots in them — making it really difficult to hide because they always tend to pop-up in the most inconvenient places. One 50g ball of yarn was enough though for the bottom portion of the towel. Definitely get two balls of yarn for the top contrasting color, you will be able to get two towels out of them. This really simple and quick pattern is from Canadian Living, give it a try! {photography: Jill Cannon}

made — vintage kitchen towels

These three knitted kitchen towels were mother’s day presents this year. Usually the thought of knitting a kitchen towel sounds so boring and lame, but this pattern looked so fun and unique I had to give it a try. And, I love them! I see myself making a few more in the future because they are so quick and easy to do — It helps that every RS row is a decrease row, speeding up the project as you go along making it fly by!

I used Debbie Bliss Pure Cotton yarn because it was so ridiculously soft and came in such beautiful colors, but I was pretty disappointed in the quality especially for the price. It had a lot of pilling while working with it and 5 out of the 7 balls of yarn I used for these towels had multiple joining knots in them — making it really difficult to hide because they always tend to pop-up in the most inconvenient places. One 50g ball of yarn was enough though for the bottom portion of the towel. Definitely get two balls of yarn for the top contrasting color, you will be able to get two towels out of them.

This really simple and quick pattern is from Canadian Living, give it a try!

{photography: Jill Cannon}

05/24/2010 knitting, handmade towels kitchen home cotton mother's day