Potholder tips

On By CarynIn Craft

As I’m going through my Pumpkin Spice Friendly Loom cotton loops and weaving potholders, I’ve found a few tricks that help my process flow.

Marking the center peg of the Pro Loom helps reduce counting. I used a metallic Sharpie to mark the 14th pin on all four sides of my loom.

Photo description: Pro sized Friendly Loom marked with a gold pen at the middle peg, black dog looking up at the camera in the backgound

Rather opening and closing the bags every time I need a new color as I weave, I loaded my arm with cotton loops in the order I need. The loops are large bracelet sized and quite comfy to wear. This speeds up weaving time as well, since I’m not fumbling for the next color.

Photo description: Pro loom with warp set with alternating colors of spice and linen colored loops and my arm covered in the same alternating colors for the weft

This is the biggest thing, y’all. I stumbled across a vast repository of potholder weaving patterns. Piglet’s Potholder Patterns has over 600 weaving patterns in very easy to read charts, for free. Piglet Evans and Matthew Simon Cavalletto do a fantastic job with the website and have patterns for a variety of loom sizes as well as blank pattern charts. 600 pattern possibilities, I may have swooned.

Photo description: Pot holder woven with spice and linen colored loops along with the weaving chart from Piglet’s Potholder Patterns called Floating Circle

I love optical illusions and just had to try the Floating Circle pattern, which uses straight lines to trick the brain into seeing a circle. So neat.