Superwash Wool vs. Cotton for potholders

[thesuburbs]

Odd that I have been knitting this long and never made a potholder, but I found that amazing Star Trek potholder pattern (http://offthehookastronomy.blogspot.com/2009/08/star-trek-pot-holders-free-pattern.html) and want to make one or two for myself and my BF as a housewarming gift to ourselves. (We're moving from a studio to a 1-bedroom in a few

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[sarakate]

This is terribly common. A lot of people just can't visualize at all how something would work up in a different fabric, different yarn, different color, etc. There are jokes about people who really love a pattern, but they were wanting to make a blue sweater and this one is green.... but it actually happens; I have heard one of the workers at my LYS gently working a customer around to the notion that she could make a sweater out of the blue Cascade 220 instead of the green Cascade 220 the pattern called for. It's rather sad.

OTOH, I have dramatically benefited from this common inability. My house had been on the market upwards of 6 months when I bought it (and this was before the recent housing crisis), and I am 99.44% sure that this is because it had HIDEOUS paint in about 3/4 of the rooms. I mean, are-you-people-freakin'-colorblind paint -- it was awful. But if you could look past the ugly paint, the house had great bones, and it was a bargain because they were getting very desperate and so few people COULD look past it. I can, so I snapped it up and repainted something decent, and it's a great house now.