Potholders

Anyone who has a kitchen has a pot holder or hot pad.
My brother and I had quite a business going for a while
with our homemade potholders. Back in the late 50s we
had a large family with plenty of sock tops. The socks
were mainly cotton so you could make a nice thick pad.
When we received the loom as a Christmas gift from my
dad's factory we were disappointed. But mom insisted
she needed new ones that were not sown from material
After we had made more than a dozen she said to stop!
she had all she needed for a long time. We brewed over
what to do with all the left over sock tops and pads we
had left until my brother came up with the idea of selling
to the neighbors. Well, we sold a lot of them and kept
making into June ,when the people who came to open
their cottages for the summer. Did we sell! I am not sure
to this day if it was the potholders or just cause they thought
it was cute but we made so many that our metal loom
became crooked and we grew very tired of our little
enterprise. These nice people started ordering to take
back to their own town and state and summer had started
to slip pass us 2 beach bums! Business closed and we spent what we had made on treats the rest of the summer including
A case of "MalloCup candy bars" that we stashed in the freezer.
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