Inside: Free Square Spiral Potholder loom weaving pattern with written instructions, link to weaving chart and tutorial videos.
The Square Spiral Potholder is one of my favorite designs to weave.
This unique pattern creates a two color spiral on the front and an eye-catching design of nested arrows or mitered squares on the back.
Unlike some of the other potholder designs I’ve featured this one doesn’t have a pattern repeat so pay close attention to each row as you are weaving the loops.
This pattern contains written instructions and links to a weaving chart showing the design and fully-captioned tutorial videos showing the entire project for both right and left handed weavers.
If you follow the right-handed video your spiral will twist counter-clockwise and the working the project left-handed results in a clockwise spiral. You can work up both and combine them to make a large hot pad.
Square Spiral 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 (orange)
Color B: 18 loops (purple)
Weaving tool
Crochet hook to bind off
SKILL LEVEL Easy+
MEASUREMENTS
About 5.5” x 5.5” (14 x 14 cm)
Be sure to check out all my woven potholder tutorials:
Back and Forth Twill Potholder
Basketweave Steps Potholder
Christmas Plaid Potholder
Corners
Diverging Corners
Four Corners
Noughts and Crosses (X and O)
Padded Basketweave Potholder
Square Spiral Potholder
Stripes
Twill Diamond Potholder
Two-Two Twill Chevron Potholder
Woven Potholders: 9 Basic Patterns
Zig Zag Twill Potholder
NOTES
The square spiral design uses two colors 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.
This design shows the square spiral on the front only. The back shows nested arrows pointing toward the center
You can find a detailed chart of this design at Piglets Potholders Patterns: Square Spiral Potholder (18-peg) (Shared with permission under Creative Commons license CC-by-SA)
INSTRUCTIONS
Warp:
Beginning with Color A (next to black peg) and alternating with Color B, place loops vertically from top to bottom using all pegs. (See photo below.)
Weave:
This design uses alternating colors on each row so be sure to note the A or B next to the row number. This tells you which color to use.
Row 1 (B): Weave *over 1, under 1. Repeat from * to end of row.
Row 2 (A): Weave over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 seven times. Weave under 2.
Row 3 (B): Weave under 1, over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 six times. Weave under 2, over 1.
Row 4 (A): Weave over 1, under 1, over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 five times. Weave under 2, over 1, under 1.
Row 5 (B): Weave under 1, over 1, under 1, over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 four times. Weave under 2, over 1, under 1, over 1.
Row 6 (A): Weave over 1, under 1 twice. Weave over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 three times. Weave under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 twice.
Row 7 (B): Weave under 1, over 1 twice. Weave under 1, over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 twice. Weave under 2, over 1. Weave under 1, over 1 twice.
Row 8 (A): Weave over 1, under 1 three times. Weave over 2, under 1, over 1, under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 three times.
Row 9 (B): Weave under 1, over 1 three times. Weave under 1, over 2, under 2, over 1. Weave under 1, over 1 three times.
Row 10 (A): Weave over 1, under 1 three times. Weave over 1, under 2, over 2, under 1. Weave over 1, under 1 three times.
Row 11 (B): Weave under 1, over 1 three times. Weave under 2, over 1, under 1, over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 three times.
Row 12 (A): Weave over 1, under 1 twice. Weave over 1, under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 twice. Weave over 2, under 1. Weave over 1, under 1 twice.
Row 13 (B): Weave under 1, over 1 twice. Weave under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 three times. Weave over 2. Weave under 1, over 1 twice.
Row 14 (A): Weave over 1, under 1, over 1, under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 four times. Weave over 2, under 1, over 1, under 1.
Row 15 (B): Weave under 1, over 1, under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 five times. Weave over 2, under 1, over 1.
Row 16 (A): Weave over 1, under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 six times. Weave over 2, under 1.
Row 17 (B): Weave under 2. Weave over 1, under 1 seven times. Weave over 2.
Row 18 (A): Weave *under 1, over 1. Repeat from * to end of row.
Bind off using crochet hook.
PIN IT!
Square Spiral Potholder Tutorial Videos
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