Dress Up Your Table with Loom Knit Lacy Placemats!

Inside: Free pattern for the loom knit Lacy Placemats. Includes written instructions, lace chart and tutorial videos demonstrating the lofty lace stitch pattern.

The Lacy Placemat creates the perfect background for your elegant table settings.  Whether you are hosting a family holiday or just having a friend over for coffee, your table will look beautiful.  This placemat uses a medium-weight mercerized cotton yarn that washes well and shows off the beautiful lace design. 

This easy loom knit project uses the lofty lace stitch pattern. You’ve seen this stitch pattern before in the Lofty Lace Blanket pattern, but look how a change of yarn and gauge changes the entire look of the design.

Pattern contains written instructions, lace chart, and links to fully-captioned tutorial videos for both right and left handed loom knitters showing the lace stitch pattern. 

Loom Knit Lacy Placemat

By Kristen Mangus

A downloadable PDF of this pattern is available in my Etsy store or from Ravelry at the links below:

MATERIALS

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Yarn
Medium (#4) worsted weight yarn
Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton (186 yds/3.5 oz., 170 m/100 g) in color Grass used in sample. 1 ball of yarn per placemat

Loom
⅜” small gauge (SG) loom with at least 57 pegs.
KB Flexee Loom Skinny used in sample. 

Tapestry needle for weaving in ends

ABBREVIATIONS

Approx.  = Approximately
K = Uwrap knit
K2tog = Knit 2 stitches together
P = Purl
Psso = Pass slipped stitch over
Rep = Repeat
Sl1 = Slip 1 stitch
Ssk = Slip, slip knit
St(s) = Stitch(es)
YO = Yarnover

For a refresher on loom knitting basics see the blog posts below to get started:
13 Questions for Beginner Loom Knitters
How to Loom Knit Basics
How to Loom Knit Basic Stitch Patterns
How to Loom Knit in the Round

GAUGE
18 sts x 38 rows in 4” (10 cm) in lofty lace pattern

SKILL LEVEL Easy+

MEASUREMENTS
Approx. 12.5” x 17.5” (31.75 x 44.5 cm) 

NOTES 

Sizing: the lace stitch pattern uses a multiple of 6 +3.  If you want to adjust the size of the placemat, every additional 6 stitches cast on adds approx. 1.25” (3.2 cm) and each 12-row repeat adds about 1.25” (3.2 cm).  Check your largest plate or charger to see if you need to adjust the size.

Flexee Loom setup:  I recommend setting up your Flexee loom so each repeat of the lace stitch pattern is on a different link color.  (See image.)  Start with 1 light link, then 3 dark links.  Continue alternating groups of 3 light links followed by 3 dark links until you have 5 dark groups and 4 light groups.  Finish with 1 more light link at the end.  The blue stitch marker marks Peg 1 of the lace stitch pattern.

Cast on: I recommend the chain cast on for this pattern. Start chain at the end you will want to begin Row 1 of the lace pattern.

INSTRUCTIONS

Cast on 57 sts. 

Garter border

Row 1: P all.
Row 2: K all.

Rep Rows 1-2 once.

Rep Row 1 once more.

Lofty Lace pattern (see chart below)

Row 1: K2. *Yo, ssk, k1, k2tog, yo, k1. Rep from * to last st. K1.

Row 2 and all even rows: P1, k to last st, p1.

Row 3: K2. *Yo, ssk, k1, k2tog, yo, k1. Rep from * to last st. K1.

Row 5: K2. *Yo, ssk, k1, k2tog, yo, k1. Rep from * to last st. K1.

Row 7: K3. *Yo, (sl1, k2tog, psso), yo, k3. Rep from * to end of row.

Row 9: K2. *K2tog, yo, k1, yo, ssk, k1. Rep from * to last st. K1.

Row 11: K1, k2tog. *Yo, k3, yo, (sl1, k2tog, psso). Rep from * to last 6 sts. Yo, k3, yo, ssk, k1.

Row 12: P1, k to last st, p1.

Rep. Rows 1-12 of the lace pattern 12 times or until desired length ending after a Row 5.

Garter border

Row 1: P all.
Row 2: K all.

Rep Rows 1-2 once.

Rep Row 1 once more.

Bind off and weave in tails. Lightly block lace as needed. 

Makes 1 placemat. 

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Loom Knit Lacy Placemat Tutorial Videos

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The following tutorial video demonstrates the 12-row lace stitch pattern.  It does not include the cast on, bind off or garter stitch border. But links to those videos are listed in the video description, if needed.

Lace stitch patterns look best when wet blocked.  See my How to Wet Block post to learn more about the method.

Right handed

Left handed