{"id":1075,"date":"2018-01-25T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2018-01-21T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:11:12","slug":"making-potholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/25\/making-potholders\/","title":{"rendered":"Making potholders!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friend A, the one who is allergic to everything (not the Friend A who likes bugs and bitcoin), needed some potholders. Of course we have a huge supply of potholder looms and loops (here’s a short history<\/a> of woven-loop potholders). It is a classic childhood craft.<\/p>\n

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Choosing loop colors. This also involved sorting out those loops too short to fit onto the standard-sized loom. They will be used for smaller potholders. You can also use rag strips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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You put loops on one way, then you weave the loops over-under the other way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Use a crochet hook to pull the end of each loop through the next. It ends up looking like a braid and is constructed like a single column of knit stitch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Finished! Each potholder took me 30-45 minutes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good potholders are essential<\/em> to cooking (although occasionally I have wanted my leather welding gloves to protect the backs of my hands in tight spaces)! Sibling C thinks that this style of potholder is the best there is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friend A, the one who is allergic to everything (not the Friend A who likes bugs and bitcoin), needed some potholders. Of course we have a huge supply of potholder looms and loops (here’s a short history of woven-loop potholders). It is a classic childhood craft. Good potholders are essential to cooking (although occasionally I … <\/p>\n

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