My parents’ 56th wedding anniversary on January 19th was also our one-month-versary of living in our new house. We love it!
We are unpacking stuff that has been in storage for years. Sometimes unpacking is like finding old friends and sometimes…well, I wonder why I kept some of it. It must have seemed important at the time.
This hot pad qualified as an old friend. It takes me back to the time before we ever dreamed of building a house, before kids, back to when my design career was just starting, in the early 1990s. Three double-sided knit hotpad designs were among the first I ever got into print. The house design may have been the sample I sent to the editor in my proposal. I gave it to my mother-in-law, Gene Frederick.
It hung in her kitchen for years. After she died, the hot pad returned to us and now we are using it in our new house. Things come around and go around and gather memories.
Instructions for this hot pad are in “House Warmings” (three potholder designs and patterns), Country Handcrafts, pp. 4–5, Bazaar 1992.