Many of the pictures of woven loop potholders are taken when the work is still on the loom. This makes it easy to see the order of the colored loops by looking at the colors on the pegs. For plain weave potholders, this is all the info needed to recreate the pattern.

Since the loom was out, and there were still loops left, I had to give this neat directional pattern a go.

It bothered me that the cast off for my last potholder was so tight, so I did up another diagonal line weave and tried something different. I used the same method of weaving, working from one corner and hooking pairs of loops together at a ninety degree angles.

To finish, I tied a new loop to a corner loop, by chaining them together, then threaded this longer strand through the loops on the side of the loom.

This method of finishing does produce a softer edge, but it doesn’t have the neat, crisp look of a crocheted edge. It also makes the potholder one “row” bigger as it is essentially weaving an additional row on each side.

I did get my center twists all going the same way in my second attempt. Yay.

This is more of a craft Throwback, rather than a picture from the past. The potholder loom was a craft I did when I was young. All those loops! I bought two sets for my kids years ago, and they sat unused. I was recently scrolling Pinterest and saw a diagonal design that used a technique I had never seen. I had to try it. I dug out a kit from the craft closet and set to work figuring out how to do it.

This is a neat technique. I did learn that I need to pay attention to which way I twist the two colors around each other and keep it consistent. I switched directions a couple times in the project and it can be seen in the final product as an inconsistent line.