The other day I was going through my stash of cotton yarn and found two skeins of Drops Paris yarn in black and white. I thought what better way to use the yarn than to make a hot pad with a zebra-inspired design! This hot pad pattern is beginner friendly as it uses only single crochet and half-double crochet stitches as well as a variation of the single crochet stitch – the spike stitch! The spike stitch is a fun and easy way to play around with colours and introduce a cute highlight in a relatively simple crochet design. Drops Paris is an aran/worsted weight cotton yarn which works up…