Easiest Zig Zag Potholder Design: Basketweave Steps!

Inside: Free potholder weaving pattern, Basketweave Steps, makes a reversible zig zag design. Includes written instructions, link to weaving chart and tutorial videos.

The Basketweave Steps Potholder creates a fun diagonal zig zag design. This easy loom weaving pattern uses 18 pegs and is fully reversible.  This one would look great as part of a bigger project like a trivet.

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 handers.

Basketweave Steps 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
34 cotton potholder loops (for 7” loom)
Color A: 18 loops (pink) 
Color B: 18 loops (purple)

Notions
Weaving tool
Crochet hook to bind off

SKILL LEVEL Easy+

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

NOTES 

The basketweave steps 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: Basketweave Steps 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 1-18: Alternate Colors A and B.  (A on the odd pegs, B on the even pegs.) 

Weave:

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

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

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

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

Rows 5-16: Rep Rows 1-4 three more times.

Rows 17-18:  Rep.  Rows 1-2 once more.

Bind off using crochet hook.

PIN IT!

Basketweave Steps Design Tutorial Videos

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Left handed