Pot holder innards

I used Thin-sulate. But I never used the potholder- it was for a class I taught and I gave my sample to the LQS owner as a little thank you. But the LQS owner said to have the Thin-sulate next to the heat and a layer of Warm & Natural/White next to the hand- and we used that reflective stuff like an ironing board cover, too. Might have been overkill, but who wants burned hands, right?

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Michelle, here we go again, it depends. If you're reaching for a 500° cast iron Dutch oven, you need a pair of those really serious store-bought gloves. If you're just doing 'for show', then it doesn't really matter much. I by-pass the stiff potholders in the drawer and always reach for the face cloth folded in half twice and blanket-stitched around. If you want to be thrifty, you could put a new cover on your ironing board and use the untouched areas of the old one to back your potholders. Polly

I have probably made a hundred pot holders :) I use a product called "insul-brite" which is designed for hot pads, oven mits, potholders, etc. and then add one layer of regular batting.

Got it at Joann fabrics. Great stuff.

-Irene

Thanks Polly. Actually, I do need want to have "functional" pot holders, but like you, I'm not a big fan of those that are really stiff and hard to fold. I like your ironing board cover idea. :-)

I made a bunch of "fingertip oven mitts" (free pattern on my website, BTW) for Xmas gifts last winter, and kept a couple for the house. My husband says I should double the insul-brite batting on the next set I make because they didn't protect him adequately when removing a cookie sheet from the oven. link for the pattern (PDF)

-Wendy (sort of new here. I th> Just had an idea -one of my potholders is a silicon circle that works