Web crochet - tricolor pot holders
Weave or crochet? If you like both, you can combine this with this tip. This creates an interesting three-color pattern.
As a crochet technique you only have to know air meshes and sticks (for the hanger also fixed loops). These potholders can be good as a joint venture with children who are just learning the crochet and so far only the "air mesh"? dominate. A crocheted person crochets the basic grid. A child or a person inexperienced in crocheting the chains of the air. The weaving can be done together.
material requirements
(For 3 potholders)
- 3x 50 g pot holder yarn in the colors white-light blue-dark blue
(or 3x 50 g pot holder yarn in the colors white-red-black)
100 percent cotton, needle size 3,5 - 4,5, run length 50 g approx. 100 m
quick start Guide
A basic grid of 15 x 15 boxes in one color is crocheted and in the other two colors long chains of mesh are woven, which are then woven longitudinally and transversely into the grid.
In the pictures you can see a pair of red, black and white potholders, once with red and once with a black base grid and a light blue, dark blue and white tricot trio, in which the basic grid was crocheted from each color (pictures 1, 11, 12).
Since you need more yarn for the basic grid than for the air mesh chains, crochet the basic grid in a different color for each pot holder. Then 3 x 50 grams of yarn are sufficient for 3 potholders. If you only want two potholders, you can also make two potholders with the same basic grid from 3x 50 grams and then just have more yarn leftovers.
Detailed instructions
In the first color, z. B. Crochet the grid of 15 x 15 boxes:
- crochet a stop of 33 air stitches (= 30 air stitches + 2 turn pockets + 1 air stitch)
- Turn work and crochet a stick in the 29th Air Mesh
- Crochet an airlock and crochet a chopsticks into the 27th mesh
- Crochet alternately an air mesh and a chopsticks, crocheting only in the odd meshes of the attack until you arrive at the first air mesh. The result is the first grid row consisting of 15 compartments.
- Turn the work and crochet 3 loops (2 turn-backs + 1 air-stitch), crochet a stick into the last stick of the previous row.
- Crochet alternately, an air mesh and a chopsticks, while only stabbing in the sticks of the front row, so that chopsticks over sticks and air mesh over air mesh comes.
- Crochet until you have a grid of 15 x 15 boxes.
- For the hanger, crochet about 15 stitches to the ring and crochet with tight stitches.
- Cut the thread and put the grid aside, it now serves as a yardstick for the chain of mesh in the other two colors
Crochet chains in the second and third colors:
In the second color, e.g. Crochet a very long chain in BLACK. It must be 15 times as long as the grid is high.
In the third color, z. B. WHITE crochet a very long chain of mesh. It must be 15x as long as the grid is wide.
The entire crocheted material for a pot holder can be seen in Figure 2:
- a red grid
- a black chain of air
- a white chain of air
Since you never know for sure whether it is enough or not, I did NOT finish the chain of mesh before weaving, but pulled the yarn and pulled the last loop of air over the hanger on the lattice, so that the chain of mesh does not split during weaving. (See picture 3 - 5).
Weave first chain of mesh in the grid
- A crochet hook without a handle is wonderfully suitable as a shuttle boat: you wrap the beginning of the chain around the crochet hooks and push the other end weaving through the lattice, always alternating over and under a lattice stick and pulls the chain behind. Do not pull too hard, it should be a dense but also high tissue (see Figure 3 - 5).
- At the end of the row, the chain of stitches is led around the edge. In the second row the crochet hook leads to the first row offset by the grid (see picture 4).
- In the third row you lead the crochet hook according to the first row. In the fourth row, you lead the crochet hook according to the second row (see pictures 5 and 6). Continue to weave until you have weaved through the whole grid.
- If the chain of stitches is insufficient, it is easy to attach and move stitches. If the chain is too long, you can either push it back or cut off the superfluous.
- Sew on the threads of the black chain so that you can connect the beginning and the end to the red grid at the same time.
Weave the second chain of air mesh into the grid
- Now loop the last air mesh of the white chain around the hanger and weave in the second color with the crochet hook as a shuttle boat. While you have woven the first color parallel to the crochet direction (right-left), you lead the second color from top to bottom through the grid.
- This is a bit more difficult because you now always weaves over two cross threads. You have to be aware that you always go in front of the same color under the grid AND reappear. On picture 7/8 you can see that I switched the white thread from right to left, always BEFORE the black cross thread and AFTER the red cross thread between top and bottom.
- At the end of the row, the chain of stitches is led around the edge. In the second row, the crochet hook leads to the first row offset by the grid. (See picture 8, indicated by yellow arrows)
- In the third row, the crochet hook is placed according to the first row, in the fourth row again in the same way as in the second row. Continue weaving until you have weaved through the whole grid. (Picture 9 shows the grid, halfway through with the second color).
- Again, make sure that the chain is pulled evenly and not too tight, if necessary extend or shorten the chain of mesh.
- Sew on the remaining threads and connect the beginning and end of the white chain with the red grid.
Weaving is admittedly a bit tricky, especially the second color, but crocheting is fast. So be brave, it's also something for newcomers to crocheting. If you have any questions, I would like to submit explanations and pictures.
