Kitchen Essentials
Lobster Potholder ~ There is no shortage of vintage potholder pattern booklets by The Spool Cotton Company distributed by J&P Coats and Clark’s. This particular pattern comes from a potholder pattern booklet issued in 1951.
It states on the first page, “bring cheer to your kitchen with these useful and attractive pot holders.” This one is perfect for summer or any time, a lobster potholder.
The foundation of the potholder is single crochet stitches. Then you crochet the lobster separately. Once you finish the lobster, you sew it in place on the pot holder.
The potholder has a felt lining and a bone ring for storing.
Materials
The main body of the lobster potholder uses Knit-Cro-Sheen in a Crystal Blue color or Mercerized Bedspread Cotton. The crocheted lobster uses Three Cord Mercerized Crochet in Flamingo.
I found a photo of a ball of the 3 cord crochet, but it says it’s a size 30. The cotton for this project is a Size 20. It may be that the Article B.34-C is Size 30 and the Article B.34, that’s in the book, is Size 20.
I’ve shared many patterns that use Knit-Cro-Sheen crochet thread. Here is a link to those patterns where you’ll also find more info on Knit-Cro-Sheen.
Crochet Instructions
The great thing about this crochet pattern is the instructions for the lobster are separate so if you’d like to crochet a lobster for use by itself, you can.
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I just bought another vintage 1938 crochet booklet but only because I needed one pattern in print out of it that isn’t available online (at least not that I can find)finding old patterns free online I do make use of all the “angles” like wayback machine, archive.org, hathitrust and so on. Yahoo groups closed & there were some good groups for patterns in there. Celt of Celt’s vintage crochet that I used to spend much time browsing her patterns, she passed away last yr? I think it was- what a loss! I read it through the groups.io page (where her yahoo groups migrated to) Main reason today I write here because I just HAVE to try to make this lobster! if I do complete it, I will try & remember to send u a link to my ravelry page with it. God bless- I do hope you are doing alright.
Hi Kristin, I’m doing well, just busy as ever. Taking care of some things around the house, EBay, helping my Dad and planning for retirement coming up soon.
I love all the sites you mentioned but hadn’t heard about the Celt one. You’re right, you can find almost every pattern you’re looking for, but every once in awhile there’s that elusive one you just have to have. 😃
Miss posting the patterns but just can’t imagine fitting it in right now.
Good to hear from you. Hope you are doing well too.
Debra
Debra don’t even apologize for not updating- gosh, there are only so many vintage patterns out there – eventually you’d run out of stuff to post 🙂 it’s like those oldies music stations (do those still exist?) You have so many cute things to look at. By the way- I just won a shopgoodwill auction on a stack of 40s and early 1950’s McCall’s Needlework magazines. I’m going through them (Oh just chock full of hundreds of fabulous patterns and ideas!!) All of them feature patterns that were the latest updates to Purple Kitty’s x stitch patterns- I wonder if they were hers? I will ask her, it’s too much of a coincidence – that these same magazines… no more no less. Oh well. Anyway- back to your blog, you always post neat looking, yet useful crafts- pot holder, apron, slippers, stuff like that. I think your blog is just wonderful. There’s something about old needlework that people find so attractive, like a cozy fireplace on a winter’s day.
Thanks, Kristin. Nice score on the magazines. I have quite a few myself and they’re great.