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Weave the Half and Half Stripes Design!

Weave the Half and Half Stripes Design!

INSIDE: Learn to weave the half and half stripes potholder design with the free pattern including written instructions, link to weaving chart and tutorial videos.

The Half and Half Stripes Potholder takes a classic stripe and gives it a twist. Literally!  The two halves of vertical and horizontal stripes create a unique geometric design.

weave the half and half stripes design

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.

Half and Half Stripes 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: 19 loops (blue) 
Color B: 17 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: Half and Half Stripes 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:
Alternate Colors A and B: A on the odd pegs and B on the even pegs.

half and half stripes design warp setup

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.

Rows 3-8: Rep Rows 1-2 three (3) times.

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

Row 10: With A, weave (under 1, over 1) rep to end of row.
Row 11: With B, weave (over 1, under 1) rep to end of row.

Rows 12-17: Rep Rows 10-11 three (3) times.

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

Bind off using crochet hook.


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