potholder
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I dipped them in the hardening brown goo with the scalding pan resting on a flowery potholder, one at a time, singeing my fingertips and waving my hand in pain.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
One of her children had once wrapped up a used potholder to put under the tree for her, and the other had made something from Legos.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
The Ojai artist weaves each 6-by-6-inch potholder by hand as a “form of embodied meditation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
One of my friends is sewing medical masks, using the loops from a child’s potholder weaving kit for the earpieces.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2020
With the potholder, remove the pan and add one layer of popcorn kernels.
From Electricity for the 4-H Scientist Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962 by Eric B. Wilson
Then it was potholders made from a kit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019
He is sent to a retirement home, where he and viewers suffer forced, unfunny scenes of Max being urged to knit potholders in the shape of kidneys.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2016
Willis Henry Auctions in Marshfield, Mass., has been selling the estates of dealers and collectors, including Jerry McCue, Ed Clerk and Howard Fertig, who acquired Shaker objects as mundane as eyeglasses, potholders and clothes hangers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014
All kinds of potholders in all styles, colors, textures, etc.
From Forbes ● Nov. 29, 2012
FRI-SUN Jewelry, purses, quilts, scarves, potholders, notecards; Tibetan and Palestinian handicrafts; cookbook and baked goods; 6-9 p.m.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2011
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