Beautiful Woven Twill Step Diamond Potholder

Inside: Free loom woven Twill Step Diamond Potholder pattern with written instructions, link to weaving chart and fully-captioned tutorial videos.

The Twill Step Diamond Potholder creates a unique shape that radiates out from the center.  This easy loom weaving pattern is reversible and makes a great gift.

You can use either 18 or 19 pegs to make this pattern. It’s the same pattern, but when you use 19 pegs the design is perfectly centered. I’ll show how to adapt your standard 18-peg loom to add another peg if you want to try the 19-peg version. It’s an easy fix!

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.

Woven Twill Step Diamond Potholder (18/19 Peg)

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 (38) cotton potholder loops (for 7” loom)
Color A: 18 (20) loops (purple) 
Color B: 18 loops (yellow)

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 that alternate on both the warp (vertical) and 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: Twill Step Diamond 18/19-peg. (Shared with permission under Creative Commons license CC-by-SA)

INSTRUCTIONS

Warp:

Place 18 (19)  loops vertically (from top to bottom) in the following order: 

Pegs 1-18 (19): Alternate Colors A and B.  (A on the odd pegs, B on the even pegs.)

Use the column of pegs at the end as the optional 19th peg for the warp.

Weave:

Instructions below will list the optional 19th peg in brackets [ ] at the end of the row. Omit this if using 18 pegs.

Row 1: With A, weave (over 2, under 2) 4 times.  Weave over 2. [Weave under 1.]

Row 2: With B, weave under 1.  Weave (over 2, under 2) twice.  Weave over 1, under 1, over 2, under 2, over 2, under 1.  [Weave under 1.]

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

Row 4: With B, weave over 1.  Weave (under 2, over 2) twice. Weave under 1, over 1, under 2, over 2, under 2, over 1.  [Weave over 1.] 

Row 5-8: Rep Rows 1-4 

Row 9: With A, weave (over 2, under 2) 4 times.  Weave over 2. [Weave under 1.]

Row 10: With B, weave (under 2, over 2) twice.  Weave under 1, over 1, under 1.  Weave over 2, under 2, over 2, under 1. [Weave under 1.]

Row 11: With A, weave under 1. Weave (over 2, under 2) 4 times.  Weave over 1. [Weave over 1.]

Row 12: With B, weave (over 2, under 2) twice. Weave over 1, under 1.  Weave (over 2, under 2) twice. [Weave over 1.]

Row 13: With A, weave over 1. (Weave under 2, over 2) 4 times.  Weave under 1.  [Weave under 1.]

Row 14, With B, weave (under 2, over 2) twice.  Weave under 1, over 1.  Weave (under 2, over 2) twice. [Weave under 1.]

Row 15-18: Rep Rows 11-14.

Row 19 (optional): With A, weave under 1. Weave (over 2, under 2) 4 times.  Weave over 1. [Weave over 1.]

Bind off using crochet hook.

PIN IT!

Tutorial Videos

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