Potholder: Pro

On By CarynIn Craft

When I bought the potholder loom kits for my kids, I bought one regular size and one Pro. The Pro box still had intact seals. I fixed that, and thought I might make a small bag because the Pro potholders are larger and there were only enough loops for two projects. The loom also has an odd number of pins, rather than the even number for the regular loom. It opens up different design possibilities. I wanted to experiment more with twisting with my first project with a Pro loom. I counted all my loops and divided them in half, then came up with a design based on the number I had of each color.

Photo description: first pass, the center horizontal loop going through twisted adjacent strands
Photo description: second pass on either side of the center horizontal loop, hook tool showing how the strands are picked up in pairs
Photo description: closeup of the third pass in process, showing how the horizontal loop returns the twisted strands to the original position
Photo description: potholder loom with the center pass with two passes below the center, returning the loops to the original position, and four passes above the center, showing the twisted loops

The overall pattern when weaving is three fold: twisted path, plain weave, plain weave.

Photo description: weaving finished with the last four passes in plain weave on the top and bottom
Photo description: finished potholder with chained edge and corner loop
Photo description: opposite side of the same potholder

I was going to make a coordinating but opposite twist design, but it turns out when the strands are twisted the opposite way, the pattern is just being worked upside down, it doesn’t look different. Hm. I don’t want twins, so I’ll try something completely different for the next potholder.