Inside: Christmas Plaid Potholder weaving pattern with written instructions, link to weaving chart and full tutorial videos for both right and left handers.
This Christmas Plaid Potholder uses a basic Nine Block design, but adds in a third color to create a beautiful plaid design. This eye-catching design is easy and fun to make. These hotpads take just minutes to weave and make wonderful gifts.
This pattern contains written instructions and links to fully-captioned tutorial videos showing the entire project for both right and left handed weavers.
Christmas Plaid Potholder
By Kristen Mangus
A downloadable PDF of this pattern is available in my Etsy store at the link below:
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: 12 loops (red)
Color B: 12 loops (dark green)
Color C: 12 loops (light green)
Weaving tool
Crochet hook to bind off
SKILL LEVEL Easy+
MEASUREMENTS About 5” x 5” (12 x 12 cm)
NOTES
This design uses all three colors on both the warp (vertical) and the weave (horizontal).
Place all the warp loops on the potholder loom first. Then you weave the horizontal loops according to the row instructions.
You can find a detailed chart of the basic Nine Block design at Piglets Potholders Patterns: Nine Block (18-peg) (Shared with permission under Creative Commons license CC-by-SA) This Christmas Plaid design uses the same weaving pattern as the chart, but adds in an extra color. Please follow the row instructions for the correct color placement.
Be sure to check out all my woven potholder tutorials:
Back and Forth Twill Potholder
Christmas Plaid Potholder
Padded Basketweave Potholder
Square Spiral Potholder
Twill Diamond Potholder
Two-Two Twill Chevron Potholder
Woven Potholders: 9 Basic Patterns
Zig Zag Twill Potholder
INSTRUCTIONS
Warp:
Place all loops vertically from top to bottom in the following order:
3 Color B
3 Color C
6 Color A
3 Color C
3 Color B
Weave:
Row 1: With B, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 2: With B, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 3: With B, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 4: With C, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 5: With C, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 6: With C, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 7: With A, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 8: With A, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 9: With A, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 10: With A, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 11: With A, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 12: With A, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 13: With C, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 14: With C, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 15: With C, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 16 With B, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 17: With B, weave *over 1, under 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Row 18: With B, weave * under 1, over 1. Rep from * to end of row.
Bind off using crochet hook.
If you’d like something larger, you can sew 4 potholders together to make a large one. I used 2 Christmas Plaid potholders and 2 with the Tabby design. What do you think? Be sure to check out my tutorial, How To Seam Woven Potholders.
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Christmas Plaid Potholder Tutorial Videos
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