Diverging Corners Woven Potholder

Inside: Free pattern for the Diverging Corners woven potholder including written instructions, link to weaving chart and fully-captioned tutorial videos for both right and left handers.

The Diverging Corners Potholder makes 4 small, mitered squares that change direction.  You can create this simple design with no seaming. This easy loom weaving pattern is fully reversible and works up quickly.

There are 2 variations of this design. The one I’m showing you today uses 18-pegs. It will use all the pegs on the loom and is an easy design. The other version uses 19-pegs on the same loom. In order to work the 19-peg design you need to double up on one of your pegs. It is a little more fiddly than I like, so I went with the more user-friendly option.

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.

Diverging Corners Woven 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: 20 loops (yellow) 
Color B: 16 loops (purple)

Weaving tool
Crochet hook to bind off

SKILL LEVEL Easy+

MEASUREMENTS About 5.5” x 5.5” (14 x 14 cm)

NOTES 

The diverging corners 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: Diverging Corners 18-peg (Shared with permission under Creative Commons license CC-by-SA)

INSTRUCTIONS

Warp:

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

Pegs 1-8: Alternate Colors A and B.  (A on the odd pegs, B on the even pegs.)

Pegs 9-10: Color A

Pegs 11-18: Alternate Colors B and A (B on the odd pegs, A on the even.)  

Weave:

Row 1: With A, weave (under 1, over 1) 9 times. 

Row 2: With B, weave under 2.  Weave (over 1, under 1) 7 times. Weave over 2.

Row 3: With A, weave over 1 under 2.  Weave (over 1, under 1) 6 times. Weave over 2, under 1.

Row 4: With B, weave under 1, over 1, under 2.  Weave (over 1, under 1) 5 times. Weave over 2, under 1, over 1.

Row 5: With A, weave over 1, under 1, over 1, under 2. Weave (over 1, under 1) 4 times. Weave over 2, under 1, over 1, under 1.

Row 6: With B, weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times.  Weave under 2.  Weave (over 1, under 1) 3 times. Weave over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times.

Row 7: With A, weave (over 1, under 1) 2 times.  Weave over 1, under 2. Weave (over 1, under 1) 2 times. Weave over 2. Weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times.  Weave under 1.

Row 8: With B, weave (under 1, over 1) 3 times.  Weave under 2, over 1, under 1, over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 3 times.

Row 9: With A, weave (over 1, under 1) 3 times.  Weave over 1, under 2, over 2, under 1. Weave (over 1, under 1) 3 times. 

Row 10: With A, weave (under 1, over 1) 3 times.  Weave under 1, over 2, under 2, over 1.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 3 times.

Row 11: With B, weave (over 1, under 1) 3 times.  Weave over 2, under 1, over 1, under 2. Weave (over 1, under 1) 3 times.

Row 12: With A, weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times.  Weave under 1 over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times.  Weave under 2, over 1. Weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times.

Row 13: With B, weave (over 1, under 1) 2 times.  Weave over 2. Weave (under 1, over 1) 3 times.  Weave under 2.  Weave (over 1, under 1) 2 times.

Row 14, With A, weave under 1, over 1, under 1, over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 4 times.  Weave under 2, over 1, under 1, over 1.

Row 15: With B, weave over 1, under 1, over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 5 times.  Weave under 2, over 1, under 1.

Row 16, With A, weave under 1, over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 6 times.  Weave under 2, over 1.

Row 17: With B, weave over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 7 times.  Weave under 2.

Row 18: With A, weave (over 1, under 1) 9 times.

Bind off using crochet hook.

PIN IT!

Diverging Corners Woven Potholder Tutorial Videos

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