This pattern is for those of you who know how to crochet the potholder, but just need a small reminder how to do certain parts. Here is the link to the Full Pattern with Pictures
Mary Ann’s Two Color-Double Sided Potholder
Mostly text version
Design by Mary Ann Parker – Written Pattern and Photos by
Katy Diltz Nov 10, 2013
Test Pattern, not the final draft
– please let me know if you find any errors
Intermediate level project
This two color pattern makes a handsome, sturdy potholder
or trivet with one color on each side.
If you are more of a beginner, you might want to first
try this potholder from
Miss
Abigail’s Hope Chest. It’s a single color potholder worked in the same
manner but comes out in a slightly different pattern on the sides from the
two-color. The two color potholder is set up the same way, but adds in some
twists so it might be easier to start with the single color potholder to get
the hang of the pattern.
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Materials needed:
2 balls worsted weight (#4)
cotton or cotton blend yarn
Pick complimentary colors. A solid and a matching variegated
go well together.
H hook
Several safety pin style stitch markers
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Stitches are US English:
ch – chain
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
st - stitch
Notes:
Once you get started, note that the stitches of one color
yarn will be a bit taller than the other.
If you get to the end of a row and are not sure which color goes next,
the shorter color is the next color to be worked.
When holding a piece of crochet fabric, the front loops
are always facing you and the back loops are always on the other side of the
fabric.
And just to spice things up a little:
#1 - When the top row of the color you are working is the
fronts of the sc stitches facing you, then you will be inserting the hook down
through the front loop of the other color and down into the front loop in the
color you are working with.
#2 - When the top row of the color you are working is the
backs of the sc stitches facing you, then you will be inserting the hook up
through the front loop of the color you are working with and up through the
front loop of the other color.
For #2, make sure
you are not going into the horizontal bars of either color, but into the proper
front loops of each stitch.
Pattern:
Starting with the solid color, Ch 26
Row 1 – Sc in
2nd ch from hook, and then sc in each ch across (25 st), ch 1, remove hook and
put a stitch marker in don’t turn
Row 2 – Take
up the variegated color and knot it together with the tail from the solid
color.
Row 2 starts out little different than all the others
since you don’t have a loop to begin with.
As the work is facing you, put your hook into the front
loop of the first sc and the front loop of the ch st below it. Pull the
variegated yarn through and ch1. Put the hook back into those loops. Pull a
loop through with the variegated yarn and finish the sc. Go to the next st and
put your hook into the front loop of the first sc and the front loop of the ch
st below it. Sc across in that manner making sure you have 25 st at the end.
Ch 1 and remove the hook. Put a stitch marker in that
loop,
Row 3 – Go
back to the other end and have it so the solid color is closer to you.
Take out the stitch marker of solid yarn and insert hook
in loop
Working with the solid color, insert hook under the front
loop of the first solid color sc and the front loop of the first variegated sc
below. Pull a loop through and finish the sc st. Continue to sc across like
this making sure you have 25 st at the end
ch 1, remove hook and put a stitch marker in that loop.
You can see that you are starting to get the solid color
on one side of the potholder and variegated on the other side.
Row 4 – Turn
piece over so the variegated row is facing up.
You can see that the variegated color row is shorter than
the solid color row.
That means it’s time to work the variegated color.
Remove the stitch marker from the variegated yarn, put
the hook in that loop and then insert it in the front loop of the first stitch
of variegate yarn and the front loop of the first stitch of solid yarn.
Make sure you are
not going into the horizontal bars of either color, but into the proper front
loops of each stitch.
Pull up a loop of variegated yarn and finish the sc
Continue to sc across like this making sure you have 25
st at the end
ch 1, remove hook and put a stitch marker in that loop.
Repeat crocheting solid and variegated rows until you
get a square shape.
End with the last color worked being a variegate row.
Don’t cut off yarns.
Finishing off the top:
Your Final row will be a solid color row. End with your
loops at either corner of the potholder.
You want to crochet across so that both loops end on the
same side of the potholder to make the corner loop.
With the solid side facing you, take up the solid color
yarn, sc across the top, catching both
loops of the variegated color and the front loop of the solid color.
Depending on whether the back or front of the stitches is
facing you will make it so you either crochet from the bottom up or the top
down.
Don’t cut off yarns.
Corner Loop for hanging:
First – using solid color, ch 12 and sl st into potholder
corner.
Second – using variegated color, sl st into each chain
around and sl st into corner
Cut yarns and weave in ends. Enjoy !
