Weave the Bold Checked Pinwheel Potholder Design!

Inside: Learn to weave the bold Checked Pinwheel Potholder with this free weaving pattern. Includes written instructions, tutorial videos and weaving chart.

It’s time to go BIG!

Many of the woven potholder designs you’ve seen are small and intricate. This one is the polar opposite. It is large and vibrant with a single spiral that flares out into a checkered pinwheel. There is nothing subtle about this design!

This bold Checked Pinwheel Potholder can be used as a standalone hot pad, of course. But I’m working on a pattern to show you what a high contrast design can become when you put them together. Watch your newsletter for upcoming info.

The pattern below 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.

Checked Pinwheel 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: 24 loops (coral) 
Color B: 12 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: Pinwheels of 6 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 1-6 and 13-18

Color B: Pegs 7-12

Weave:

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

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

Row 3, With A, weave (over 1, under 1) rep to end of row.

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

Row 5: With A, weave (under 2, over 1, under 1, over 2) three times.

Row 6: With A, weave (under 3, over 3) three times.

Row 7: With B, weave (over 3, under 3) three times.

Row 8: With B, weave (over 2, under 1, over 1, under 2) three times.

Row 9, With B, weave (over 1, under 1) rep to end of row.

Row 10: With B, weave (under 1, over 1) rep to end of row.

Row 11: With B, weave (under 2, over 1, under 1, over 2) three times.

Row 12: With B, weave (under 3, over 3) three times.

Rows 13-18: Rep Rows 1-6.

Bind off using crochet hook.

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Bold Checked Pinwheel Potholder Tutorial Videos

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Left handed