I have always thought of ‘pot holders’ as American as we have oven gloves in this country but I saw this fascinating pattern for a pot holder and I thought that it might just be handy.
My saucepans have metal curved handles and they are great saucepans but sometimes the handle does get too hot to hold with bare hands and I have to grab a dish cloth or tea towel to protect my fingers.
So I took some of the spare cotton I had bought to make the bath puffs and made one.
The thing that totally charmed me was what you did next which was to fold the sides over to get this. 
Sewing up was easy. 
Here is the other side. 
I wondered if it would be big enough but thought if it wasn’t maybe it could be used as a coaster. 
and I could make a bigger one
but it works fine! 
That is a great little potholder!
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Little being the operative word. 🙂
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Nice idea! As an American (😜) I can get behind this one. Personally, I can’t stand the oven mitts (gloves) and prefer potholders.
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The oven ‘glove’ I use isn’t at all like a glove. It is a long piece of fabric folded into pockets at both ends so the hands can go in. But I only like the traditional ones that rely on a few layers of a thick special cotton based fabric. The flashy ones with foam or something inside are not as good. Mine are like this – http://www.lakeland.co.uk/5751/Heavy-Duty-Double-Oven-Glove or similar.
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Oh, those are nice! I’d use something like that. I like that it’s one piece so you don’t have to use multiple pads/mitts!
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Yes, and it protects your wrists too when lifting out a large dish or tin.
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I like to be able to move my fingers and everything, so find these really good…
https://www.amazon.com/Ove-Glove-Surface-Handler-Pack/dp/B001EPR98Q?th=1
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Looks like it is developed from work gloves. I used to order heat resistant gloves when I worked in the ORC at the university.
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Gosh it is quite small isn’t it, but I really like that design 🙂
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Of course the great thing about the pattern is that it can be made as large as you want. All you have to do is have more chains at the start. If I made another I would probably make it a bit bigger.
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