How to Weave the Four Pinwheels Design!

Inside: Learn to weave the Four Pinwheels design with this free potholder pattern and tutorial videos.

As I’ve been working through different potholder designs, I like to choose one that I think will look good both alone or when combined with other designs.

As you weave the Four Pinwheels design, it spins in a colorful dance!  Unlike the designs that create stripes or blocks, this pattern makes unique swirls. The vibrant pinwheels create an eye-catching element on this easy, reversible potholder pattern.

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.

Four Pinwheels 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 (blue) 
Color B: 16 loops (red)

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: Pinwheels of 4 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 (under 1, over 1) rep to end of row.

Row 2: With A, weave (over 1, under 1) rep to end of row.

Row 3: With A, weave under 1, (over 2, under 2) 4 times, over 1.

Row 4: With B, weave over 1, (under 2, over 2) 4 times, under 1.

Row 5: With B, weave (under 1, over 1) rep to end of row.

Row 6: With B, weave (over 1, under 1) rep to end of row.

Row 7: With B, weave under 1, (over 2, under 2) 4 times, over 1.

Row 8: With A, weave over 1, (under 2, over 2) 4 times, under 1.

Rows 9-16: Rep Rows 1-8.

Row 17: With A, weave (under 1, over 1) rep to end of row.

Row 18: With A, weave (over 1, under 1) rep to end of row.

Bind off using crochet hook.

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