Mary Ann's Two-Color, Double Sided Potholder

Mary Ann’s Two Color-Double Sided Potholder

Design by Mary Ann Parker – Written Pattern and Photos by Katy Diltz Nov 10, 2013

If you know how to crochet the potholder, but just need a small reminder how to do certain parts here is a link to the 
Mostly Text version.

Test Pattern, not the final draft -  Please let me know if you find any mistakes

Intermediate level project

This two color pattern makes a handsome, double-thick, sturdy potholder or trivet with a different 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.

http://missabigailshopechest.blogspot.com/2010/12/favorite-crocheted-hot-pads.html

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

Sample crochted with Plymouth Yarns Fantasy Naturale - 100% Mercerized Cotton

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: 
When the top row of the color you are working is the fronts of the sc stitches, 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. 

In the sample, the next color to be worked is variegated and the fronts of the stitches are facing you.

Or when the top row of the color you are working is the backs of the sc stitches, 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. In the sample, the next color to be worked is solid and the backs of the stitches are facing you. 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 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 !