Woven Blocks and Crosses Design

Inside: How to make the woven Blocks and Crosses design. Includes free potholder pattern with written instructions, link to weaving chart and tutorial videos.

It’s March and the woven Blocks and Crosses design is gives me shamrock vibes! 

This fun design shows large crosses interspersed with tiny blocks on the front and large blocks with tiny crosses on the back.  But, seriously, since I made this using greens it looks like shamrocks to me. What do you think?

This Blocks and Crosses design is unique because it uses 19 pegs. Since a standard small potholder loom only has 18 peg per sides, I’ve shown you a creative way to create the extra peg. It’s all there on the video below.

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.

Blocks and Crosses Potholder Design

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

Notions:
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 on both the warp (vertical) and the 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: Blocks and Crosses 19-peg (Shared with permission under Creative Commons license CC-by-SA)

INSTRUCTIONS

Warp:

Place loops vertically (from top to bottom) on Pegs 1-18 alternating between Color A and Color B.  Place a final Color A loop around the side column of end pegs to use as the 19th peg pair.

Weave:

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

Row 2: With B, weave (under 3, over 2, under 1, over 2) twice, under 3.

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

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

Row 5: With A, weave over 1, under 2, (over 3, under 1, over 2, under 2) twice.

Row 6: With B, weave (under 1, over 1) 9 times, under 1. 

Row 7: With A, weave (under 2, over 2, under 1, over 3) twice, under 2, over 1.

Row 8: With B, weave over 1, under 1, over 1, (under 4, over 2, under 1, over 1) twice.

Rows 9-16: Rep Rows 1-8.

Rows 17-19: Rep Rows 1-3.

Bind off using crochet hook.

Woven Blocks and Crosses Design Tutorial Videos

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