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How to Weave Potholders

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Weaving potholders is an easy, inexpensive and fun craft to do. Go to your local craft store or the craft department of your local department store and pick up a loom and loops for a great deal of creative enjoyment. Your kids will love making these colorful, useful gifts. Grandmothers and moms will enjoy showing off their new handmade potholders.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

    Making the Potholder

  1. Step 1

    Go to your local craft store and purchase a plastic loom and colorful loops.

  2. Step 2

    Choose whichever colors you want to work with. The sky is the limit as far as picking the colors. Make your potholders as colorful as you choose.

  3. Step 3

    Warp your loom by stretching the loops over the pegs from the top to the bottom.

  4. Step 4

    Cover the entire loom vertically repeating Step 3.

  5. Step 5

    Using a small weaving hook, attach a loop to the far side of the horizontal side of the loom.

  6. Step 6

    Pull the hook over the first loop and under the next until you reach the opposite side.

  7. Step 7

    Continue making the potholder by again attaching the weaving hook to the far side but this time pass the hook over and under the opposite loops from Step 6.

  8. Step 8

    Repeat Steps 5 through 7 until you have covered all the pegs on the horizontal side.

  9. Finishing the Potholder

  10. Step 1

    Start on one corner, pull the second loop through the first loop using the small weaving hook.

  11. Step 2

    Pull the third loop through the second loop.

  12. Step 3

    Continue Steps 1 and 2 until there is only one loop left.

  13. Step 4

    Hang the potholder with the remaining loop.

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