Pot Holder Crazed

Yeah guess what my mother was getting for Mothers Day! Yeah well she doesn't like my crochet much so they will probably end up in the bin of stuff I don't know what to do with.

Too cool. Was interesting to work on you had to manage all four colors at once. Moving forward each color a few stitches at a time. This is rather large 10 in across

This is the back I didn't want to do another spiral. Same 4 colors plus an extra tan and then both pieces where joined with a white edging. (reverse sc) It's nicely thick too, so I guess it's more likely to be used as a hot pad.

 This was a cool design. It's made in one piece. You start with the center yellow and work outward. It works up like an envelope when you pull the sides apart it folds flat to a square. It's a very quick way to make a double think pot holder. Down the center of the red on the other side is the join. It's about 8.5 x 7.5
I think I might have ended it early another row or so and it would have been square.

All the colors I was using were in the same group. My mothers curtains are orange with a pattern and I really like the sunset colors

Which lead me to design this one. Basic tapestry crochet. I worked out the sun set design on some graph paper. With the border this one is 10"x8". It's not double thickness, although it could have been but its all single crochet so it is a tight enough stitch to use as a pot holder. I had really planned for these to be decorations. But my mother went by as I was working on this shaking her head. Yeah, so I gave up.

Of course I had patterns yet to try out and this one looked so cool. Left is the front, below the back. And I cant decide which way I like it better. The black it raised so this is more of a hot pad. You could even put it under a cake plate and it would look cute.

It's 10" across

I wish I'd taken a shot of the back of this one as well. It's interesting looking.

These make quick little projects and I'll bet I will be making more. Is there some charity giving away pot holders to naked kitchens?