Potholders!

We spent Easter with my family in Michigan, and when we got back, I had these beautiful potholders waiting for me! I have to admit that I opened them before we even brought our bags in from the car. I had been waiting all week to get home so I could see what I had received. I couldn't be happier with the potholders I got in the swap, and I'm reinspired to start crocheting more potholders. I see an order of cotton classic in the near future!

As pictured clockwise from top left: Scalloped potholder (no name provided); Potholders by humongouspudding; a granny circle by Jody (no rav id); another version of Potholders by wildwoodflwr and a really neat hexagon by fishtail on rav. Thanks everyone - I love them all! And now I wonder who got my potholders!

Barely!

I barely made it to the post office in time! I'm hoping they arrived safely, and I cannot wait to see what I get in the swap! I'm actually proud of myself - this is the first time since the Bub was born that I made a knitting deadline.

I used the Cool Flames potholder pattern, and am very happy with how they turned out. Both sides are the same pattern, but if I made this again, I would try to figure out how to make a plain, solid crocheted back. I used Lion Cotton because I didn't find out about the swap in time to order anything else. I think next year I'll plan a little better and order a lot of different colors of cotton to do something more interesting. Maybe something like this or this or maybe this!

so...

I really can't believe it has been almost three years since I last posted. I thought about the blog quite a bit. In any event, I have a very important FO to announce . . .

the Bub. Amazingly, I don't have any pictures of him in anything hand-knit. I'll have to work on that while it is still sweater weather! There has been a little bit of knitting, but, because he just recently started napping for more than 20 minutes at a time, there hasn't been much. I've mostly been keeping up with what everyone else is knitting, and making a huge queue on Ravelry.

I am participating in the crocheted potholder swap on Ravelry, and am almost done with my third potholder. It looks like I might actually make the deadline, and I am so excited to see what potholders I receive. All of the pictures of finished potholders on the Ravelry group are amazingly beautiful!

Well, naptime is over, but I'll post pictures of my potholder progress soon!