Pao's 10 Birthday and Potholders

Dear God, thanks for another year! a new beginning, a blank slate to start again with renewed energies! For the past 10 years we have had the privilege to start the year with a bang, Pao's birthday is on the third and it gives us an extra bust to start the year happy and joyful and above everything, blessed to have her in our lives. She is such a source of happiness and joy! I am so glad to have followed my mom's advise and decided to have a second child...thanks mom, you were right once again!!

For Christmas her best friend Emily gave her a pot holder loom kit, we were so excited to try a new craft!! The very next day we started looming away...the technique is very simple once you get it. The box did not bring many instructions but YouTube came to the rescue, isn't it amazing  everything you can find in YouTube? 

We were happily looping and weaving pot holders and came to the realization that we needed to find another source for the loops. The kit brought enough looms to make 4 pot holders, but we wanted more!!! Could we use yarn instead? But of course!! This YouTube video does a nice job explaining how to use yarn in the weaving loom.

The results are  different and we like them both, you can see from the pictures the difference in size and texture. With the “real” looms you get a stretchy square, thicker and probably better for grabbing a hot pot. With the yarn the results are nice too, the square is larger and thinner with a medium consistency. I wanted to put roses on them!!..jajajaja…

These are the real looms:

These are the pot holders made with cotton yarn

 

 In this picture you can see the difference in size: