Woven Four Corners Potholder Pattern

Inside: Free weaving pattern for the Four Corners Potholder. Includes written instructions, link to weaving chart and tutorial video.

The Four Corners Potholder makes 4 small mitered squares in one.  You can create this simple design with no seaming. This easy loom weaving pattern is fully reversible and works up quickly.

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.

Four Corners 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 (pink) 
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 four 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: Four 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) 3 times. Weave under 1, over 2. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 2: With B, *weave (over 1, under 1) 3 times. Weave over 2, under 1. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 3: With A,*weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times. Weave under 1, over 2, under 1, over 1. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 4: With B, *weave (over 1, under 1) 2 times. Weave over 2, under 1, over 1, under 1. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 5: With A, *weave under 1, over 1, under 1, over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 2 times. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 6: With B, *weave over 1, under 1, over 2, under 1. Weave (over 1, under 1) 2 times. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 7: With A, *weave under 1, over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 3 times. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 8: With B, *weave over 2, under 1. Weave (over 1, under 1) 3 times. Repeat from * to end of row.

Row 9: With A, weave (over 1, under 1) 4 times.  Weave over 2.  Weave (under 1, over 1) 4 times.

Rows 10-18: Rep rows 1-9 once.

Bind off using crochet hook.

PIN IT!

Tutorial Videos

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