Learn to weave the Bars Potholder!

Inside: FREE pattern to teach you to weave the Bars Potholder. Includes written instructions, link to weaving chart and fully-captioned tutorial videos for both right and left handers.

I love the classic look of this potholder design!

The Bars Potholder looks just like a mini log cabin quilt.  I love potholder designs that bring the nostalgia factor, and this geometric two-color bars pattern does exactly that. 

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.

Weave the Bars Potholder!

By Kristen Mangus

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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: 24 loops (blue)
Color B: 12 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: Bars 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, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18
Color B: Pegs 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17

Weave:

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

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

Row 3: Rep Row 1.

Row 4: With A, weave (under 1, over 1) rep to end of row.

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

Row 6: Rep Row 4.

Rows 7-18: Rep Rows 1-6 twice more.

Bind off using crochet hook.

PIN IT!

Tutorial Videos

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Left handed