This is an exact replica of the potholder loom I owned in 1977. Through a long series of events, which I've already bored my mother with (I should call her and make sure she's regained consciousness), I recently became nostalgic for my old potholder loom - the original is long gone, of course, so yesterday I went to Michael's and picked up a new one. I swear, even the instructions are the same - still totally inscrutable, which is why I never actually completed a potholder when I was a tiny child, but I had hours of fun just looping the loops around the pegs and then pulling them off again. And fortunately I've learned to crochet in the last 30 years, because finishing a potholder involves crochet cotton and a hook, which I happened to have lying around the house. (Okay, I used dishcloth cotton, but it worked.)
Oh, and then there was an incident involving my gloves and the clothes dryer:
Y'all, I have a certain amount of finger stubbiness, but even my fingers are not this stubby. I'm going to have to cut these up into nifty patches to be used in other projects.
I may have to get cracking on those Folk Mittens sooner than I thought!
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I need to get my hands on a copy of Folk Mittens at some point. I haven't knit a mitten or glove before (mostly due to my lack of decent dpns that I can actually afford on a very limited budget :p), but they don't look very hard, and my typical pattern is to learn a basic skill, then just headfirst into a more advanced version of that skill. Plus some of the pictures I've seen of that book are lovely, and I'll bet the patterns would be fun to knit up!
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