My latest project. So, I finally finished up an afghan throw I had been working on (will post more on that later this week) and wanted something to do. I couldn’t think of anything so I went with some old faithful patterns. I had a pattern for a dishcloth that’s supposed to look like a denim jean pocket. I made it using thicker yarn than suggested and I didn’t use blue yarn. I didn’t have any so I used gold yarn and then used some leftover variegated yarn for the pattern and border.
I probably shouldn’t have taken the pictures on my bright pink blanket. The colors look a little bizarre. Here is another shot.
It doesn’t really look like a jean pocket but I think that’s actually because my gauge when crocheting is kind of tight. I don’t know why. I don’t intentionally hold the hook, yarn or the pattern tightly but everything I do seems to turn out smaller than what the patterns suggest.
Coco decided she like the yarn and tried to get in on the photoshoot.
The next two I made have a variety of names if you look for them on the internet. I’ve seen them called backward/forward potholder, origami potholder, diagonal potholder. I used my gold yarn again and made another using a pretty variegated yarn. It’s easier to tell with the combo colored yarn but one side looks like the pattern goes from left-to-right and the other side looks like it goes top-to-bottom. Actually it’s made by basically just going round and round and round until the potholder folds in onto itself. I like them both.
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| front side |
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| back side |
I tried to get a close up of the stitch pattern I used. I just used a basic single-stitch going left-to-right up the seam and then right-to-left down the seam so it looks like an X-stitch.
Here are some photos of the gold one. It's hard to tell the pattern with a single colored yarn. I think I like making this type of potholder with a combo-type yarn.
I'm excited about my next "next" project. I get bored easily so I'm always looking for something else to do to keep my hands and mind busy.
