Mama's Swedish Pinwheel Potholders
Finished
June 8, 2011
June 9, 2011

Mama's Swedish Pinwheel Potholders

Project info
Mama's Swedish Pinwheel Potholder by Renata Brenner
Crochet
Potholder
me
Hooks & yarn
4.0 mm (G)
64 yards
Lily (Spinrite) Sugar'n Cream Solids
0.3 skeins = 36.0 yards (32.9 meters), 21 grams
Green
Lily (Spinrite) Sugar'n Cream Twists
0.3 skeins = 28.5 yards (26.1 meters), 16 grams
Green
Notes

My mother learned to make these in Sweden in 1939, when she was 11 and had fled Finland before the Russian invasion. She and my grandmother were taught how to make them by their landlady. I remember watching her make them when I was a small child, and being fascinated by the seamless spiral design. After having scoured the internet for the pattern with no success, I “unvented” the pattern from memory.

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  • Project created: June 11, 2011
  • Finished: June 11, 2011
  • Updated: July 6, 2011