Happy 4th of July!

I've started a new project (even though I have several others in the works!), this table hot pad is from the Leisure Arts book I found at Dollar Tree. It has a back so it is thick, and the book shows other uses like the pillow shown.

Have you seen this?

I found this neat potholder pattern on ravelry...it is very functional and the technique or stitch makes it so thick you don't have to make two layers. The free pattern is on= blogs.the tucker.com, under her crochet section. And look at the crochet book I found at Dollar Tree! I have been admiring these patterns online. They are large hotpads or just for decoration, very unusual patterns.

Crochet projects

I'm making another petals potholder. The pattern says to make the front and back the same, but I think that is too thick. So I make the back of the potholder flat. The back is what I'm finishing now. This is a vintage pattern called "Pretty Petals Potholder" #9378 from "The Complete Book of Crochet", The Spool Cotton Company....1946 pattern. I am also still working on the daisy doily but keep getting distracted by other projects...LOL!

Crochet potholders galore!

I found this photo on the internet a while back, can't remember where. I just thought I had a lot of potholders until I saw this collection! LOL!

Potholder pattern

I found this fun potholder pattern on ravelry. It is just one piece, the way it is crocheted makes it curl in and then you just whip the last seam together to make the double thickness. Several people have the pattern on ravelry for free, but I used this one.

http://www.mielkesfarm.com/diagonal_hotpad.htm

Pattern

I found this potholder pattern online...had to use internet archives wayback machine since the original site it was on is no longer available. I hope this link works , the picture of the potholder no longer shows. (This is the pattern for the potholder I showed in my previous post and the same one I put in the frame)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040310025641/http://www.cancrochet.com/rosepotholder.html

I made a couple of changes since some of the pattern didn't make sense to me..LOL. on Round 9 I ended up just evenly spacing the 13 shells around. I think Round 11 and round 16 are not clear or have mis prints also so I just adapted.

The fair is here

We had fun looking at exhibits at the fair...giant winning pumpkins.......

Beautiful quilts.....................

Judges choice afghan winner.............

Rows of knitted and crocheted afghans.........

See the pink and white potholder on middle row? That's one of my entries. It didn't win.
This was the Senior small crochet item category(yes, I'm old enough to enter the senior
category..LOL)

But my second entry in non senior small crochet item category won a

Blue Ribbon! I have never ever entered anything in the fair before so

I was happily surprised! I had crocheted this potholder once and really

liked it so I made another especially for the fair entry. I still think when

I go to pick it up, they will tell me there was a mistake and I didn't win!

Thrift shop find

I"m always looking for a way to display my potholders (you know we can't actually use them LOL ). I found this little picture at Goodwill for $4.00 and wanted it for the frame. What's unusual about it is that it has glass on the front and the back. So I took it apart and put in one of my crocheted potholders. I think it turned out pretty good.

Here's the latest pot holder I've been working on. I don't have the back on it yet. Can you tell I like pink? Look at this pretty crochet pillow pattern. This is in one of the old Magic Crochet magazines I bought at a yard sale recently. I would love to do this, but the patterns in these magazines are charted and I had never used charts before. I've played around with a couple of charted patterns and find it difficult. But I may attempt it!

More crochet

I'm still crocheting vintage potholders! Here are my latest two. I got these patterns from 1952 vintage pattern books I purchased. I also bought an old cheese dish at a yard sale and found the glass top is just perfect to cover a "stack" of potholders.

Crochet

I have been having fun crocheting some vintage pot holders. I found most of these patterns free on the internet. I think the last one (pink and white) is my favorite so far. I would love to copy the pot holders I bought at the antique fair the other week, but they are too complicated. I am expecting some vintage pattern books I bought any day now, and I hope there are some good pot holder patterns in them. Mom had some good news on her health tests...Yea!

Liberty Antiques Festival

Tom and I went to Liberty Antiques Festival in Liberty, NC. We've been before and enjoy it a lot. It was a beautiful day for it, although it was hot..in the 80's. The festival runs tomorrow too. They have it twice a year, spring and fall. The next one is Sept 25-26. I bought some crocheted hot pads I would like to copy,a pink hanky, a vintage Hazel Bishop compact, and 2 old crochet books. The doily book is 1949 and the other is 1953.

Finished

I finished my copy of Grandma Briggs' pot holder...I think it turned out pretty good considering I had to make up the pattern. Anyone know where to find vintage patterns for free (like this style of pot holder) on the internet?

Crochet project

Grandma Briggs crocheted this hot pad for me many, many years ago. I tried to find a pattern for it on line but couldn't so I am trying to copy it. Here's my progress so far. I had a pattern for the flower in the center, but I am improvising the rest of it LOL! I think it looks pretty good so far.