Apple-shaped potholders made by my grandmother Maria Antonia Ludovici Martinez (1905-1991); source of pattern unknown, perhaps improvised, in what feels like cotton. My grandmother used these, and I inherited them after her death -- her dishes were the Franciscan Apple pattern, and she had a lot of reds and whites in her kitchen. It looks like the fronts and backs were crocheted separately, then crocheted together, with the green leaves and hangers crocheted last.