After using the same breakfast bowls for the last umpty years, I decided it was time of some new ones. After spending time browsing the home-wear shops of York, walking away from some very beautiful (very expensive Polish pottery) I cam home with some very plain white bowls. There is something I like about eating of plain white crockery, it somehow feels right. I was pleased with my new bowls. The pleasure lasted right up until I used them. I should explain. I like to start my day with a hot-steaming bowl of porridge. Now, I know the porridge-purest of you will be shocked at my next sentence, sorry. I cook my porridge in the microwave. I have attempted to cook it on the hob, slowly and lovingly, but it somehow just doesn’t work for me. Then there was the occasion when I was left, at a re-enactment, to cook breakfast on an open fire. I am still apologising to a certain someone (you know who you are) for the pan then he manfully spent the next three hours cleaning with chainmail! Yes, it was THAT bad. For porridge, for me, the microwave really comes in to its own. But my new lovely plain white bowls are rather rubbish in the microwave: they get soooooooooo hot you can’t actually hold them to sit and enjoy your porridge. What is a girl to do? Crochet of course! After a happy few hours I had four crochet granny-square coasters…
They were crocheted from some very chunky Rico Creative Filz: which given that it is 100% wool, will over time felt with the heat from the bowls, but that’s ok. I love the denseness of the stitches that the wool gives…
Once again crochet to the rescue: and breakfasts no-longer involves burring hands…
Perfect!
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