Hot Pads FO

The last few nights I have been working on knitting up quick and easy hot pads/pot holders whatever you want to call them out of my spare yarn. The first one I knit I used a new (to me) stitch pattern:
RS: [k1 s k1 psso] repeated until 1 stitch remained - k last stitch
WS: p2tog but p 1st stitch in the group before taking the sitch off the needle.
I had cast on 28 stitches but I assume you can use any multiple of 3 + 1 additional stitch that is an even number. It came out okay, a tighter piece all together so I am not sure I would want to use it for a scarf or anything. I also did a small crochet border around it. It doesn't lay very flat and I kind of wish I hadn't used Patons SWS because I would have frogged the border and made it nicer, but that yarn does NOT want to part ways once it has been knit or crochet together. Oh well c'est la vie. It is only a hot pad.



The second one shown was knit on the diagonal with left over Manos, the odd little green triangle is where I ran out of the wonderful color way I started using. Most of this yarn was used to knit a beautiful purse for my mom which she never uses, the rest was a small monster toy an odd little bowl to hold my silverware in place. I love working with that skein, it made me fall in love with Manos, then I got 2 more skeins the green you see in the corner and a brown skein. Both of which I hate working with.
Its tougher and a lot more thick and thin.





This last one I made also on the diagonal, knit on
both sides to make it nice and thick and springy was made with Patons SWS in 2 colorways. I know it's kind of ugly as far as the colors go but it will serve its purpose well. Plus, the more of these I knit up the less balls of yarn I will have to move with me to Florida. I got rid of so much yarn when I moved to Philly, I don't want to have to do it again so I am trying to put what I have to use before the big move.

Oh and in case it isn't clear what 'on the diagonal' means, since I am sure that is not the real term for it.. It went something like this:
CO1
K Front & Back of stitch
All Odd rows: S1, P to end
S1, K to last stitch, K Front and Back (until desired width is achieved)
S K until 3 stitches remain, SSK, K1 (until 1 stitch remains)