Big, Bold Houndstooth Twill Weaving Pattern!

Inside: Learn to make a potholder with the Houndstooth Twill weaving pattern. Includes written instructions, weaving chart and videos.

Go BIG!

The Houndstooth Twill weaving pattern creates an oversized version of the iconic design you know and love.  This colorful potholder shows off the interlocking houndstooths in a big, bold way.

This pattern contains written instructions and links to a weaving chart and  fully-captioned tutorial videos showing the entire project for both right and left handed weavers.

Houndstooth Twill Potholder

By Kristen Mangus

MATERIALS

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Loom 
⅜” potholder loom with 72 pegs.
CinDWood ⅜” Small 7” Hot Pad/Potholder Loom used in sample. This loom is available alone or bundled with a bag of loops. Use code goodknitkisses for $5 off your loom purchase.

Loops
36 cotton potholder loops (for 7” loom)
Color A: 20 loops (green) 
Color B: 16 loops (purple)

Notions
Weaving tool
Crochet hook to bind off

SKILL LEVEL Easy+

MEASUREMENTS About 5.5” x 5.5” (14 x 14 cm)

NOTES 

This design uses two colors on both the warp (vertical) and the the weave (horizontal).

You place all the warp loops on the potholder loom first.  Then you weave the horizontal loops according to the row instructions.

In the row instructions below, directions written in parentheses ( ) are repeated.  The number of times to work the repeat are listed after the parentheses.

You can find a detailed chart of this design at Piglets Potholders Patterns: Houndstooth Twill 18-peg (Shared with permission under Creative Commons license CC-by-SA)

INSTRUCTIONS

Warp:

Place loops vertically (from top to bottom) on Pegs 1-18 as follows:

Color A: Pegs 1-3, 8-11, and 16-18

Color B: Pegs 4-7 and 12-15

Weave:

Row 1: With A, weave over 1, (under 2, over 2) four times, under 1.

Row 2: With A, weave (under 2, over 2) four times, under 2.

Row 3: With A, weave under 1, (over 2, under 2) four times, over 1.

Row 4: With B, weave (over 2, under 2) four times, over 2.

Row 5: With B, weave over 1, (under 2, over 2) four times, under 1.

Row 6: With B, weave (under 2, over 2) four times, under 2.

Row 7: With B, weave under 1, (over 2, under 2) four times, over 1.

Row 8: With A, weave (over 2, under 2) four times, over 2.

Rows 9-16: Rep Rows 1-8.

Rows 17-18: Rep Rows 1-2.

Bind off using crochet hook.

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Houndstooth Twill Weaving Pattern Tutorial Videos

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Left handed

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