Back and Forth Twill Potholder Weaving Pattern

Inside: Free potholder loom pattern for the Back and Forth Twill Potholder. Includes written instructions, link to weaving chart and tutorial videos.

The Back and Forth Twill Potholder creates an offset zig zag in the design. This easy loom weaving pattern is fully reversible and works up quickly.

This easy project uses the CinDWood 72-peg potholder loom. This loom makes about a 5″ square potholder which is perfect to use alone or to seam to make a large trivet.

This pattern contains written instructions, link to a weaving chart for this design and fully-captioned tutorial videos showing the entire project for both right and left handed weavers.

Back and Forth Twill 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: 18 loops (yellow) 
Color B: 18 loops (purple)

Weaving tool
Crochet hook to bind off

SKILL LEVEL Easy+

MEASUREMENTS About 5″ x 5” (12.7 x 12.7 cm)

NOTES 

The back and forth twill design uses two colors: 1 on the warp (vertical) and 1 on 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.

You can find a detailed chart of this design at Piglets Potholders Patterns: Back and Forth Twill 18-peg (Shared with permission under Creative Commons license CC-by-SA)

INSTRUCTIONS

Warp:

Place 18 Color A loops vertically from top to bottom.  

Weave:

All weaving loops use Color B

Row 1: Weave *over 2, under 2.  Repeat from * to last 2 pegs. Weave over 2.

Row 2: Weave over 1. Weave *under 2, over 2. Repeat from * to last peg.  Weave under 1.

Row 3: Weave *under 2, over 2.  Repeat from * to last 2 pegs. Weave under 2.

Row 4: Weave over 1. Weave *under 2, over 2. Repeat from * to last peg.  Weave under 1.

Row 5: Weave *over 2, under 2.  Repeat from * to last 2 pegs. Weave over 2.

Row 6: Weave over 1. Weave *under 2, over 2. Repeat from * to last peg.  Weave under 1.

Rows 7-18: Repeat Rows 3-6 three more times.

Bind off using crochet hook.

PIN IT!

Back and Forth Twill Potholder Tutorial Videos

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These tutorial videos show the entire Back and Forth Twill Potholder pattern from start to finish.

Right handed

Left handed