Sprinkle Potholders
16.Apr.15 / Kirsten BalleringThis free crochet pattern for potholders is so easy and fun to make! All you need is a little bit of spare time and some cotton.
Materials and preparation
Yarn
Blue dotted potholder
Scheepjes Cotton 8 (100% cotton, 50g/170m)- Colour A: 502 x 1 ball
- Colour B: 006 Oceanside x 1 ball
- Colour C: 004 Poolside x 1 ball
- Colour D: 005 Seaside x 1 ball
Red dotted potholder
Scheepjes Cotton 8 (100% cotton, 50g/170m)- Colour A: 502 x 1 ball
- Colour B: 008 Watermelon Ice x 1 ball
- Colour C: 009 Strawberry ice x 1 ball
- Colour D: 011 Peach ice x 1 ball
- Colour E: 002 Sand dunes x 1 ball
Crochet hook
5.0mm (US size H/8)
Measurements
18 cm (7 in) in diameter.
Gauge/tension
Not critical
Abbreviations (US terms)
- bobble stitch: In the stitch before your bobble stitch, change colours by completing the last step of the stitch (pull yarn through loops on hook) in the colour of your bobble. Put white yarn aside for now. (yarn over, insert hook in stitch, yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through 2 loops on hook) 4 times, switch back to white yarn, pull through all loops on hook.
- hdc: half double crochet
- RS: right side
- ss: slip stitch
Repeat formats
- (…) once/twice/3x Crochet the instructions between brackets the total number of times indicated.
- […] Indicates the amount of stitches at the end of a row or round.
- (…) in same st/sp Indicates that all instructions between brackets are worked in the same stitch or space.
Crochet pattern
Front
With Colour A, make a magic loop.
Round 1 (RS) 6 hdc. [6 hdc]
Round 2 (RS) 2 hdc in each hdc. [12 hdc]
Red version: From now on you’re going to make 2 bobbles in each odd row, and 1 bobble in each even row. Don’t think too hard about where your bobbles are going to be! This way, they’re going to be sprinkled all over. The bobbles count as a stitch.
Blue version: From now on you’re going to make a bobble every row. Don’t forget that the bobbles count as a stitch!
Round 3 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 1hdc) 6 times. [18 hdc]
Round 4 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 2hdc) 6 times. [24 hdc]
Round 5 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 3hdc) 6 times. [30 hdc]
Round 6 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 4hdc) 6 times. [36 hdc]
Round 7 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 5hdc) 6 times. [42 hdc]
Round 8 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 6hdc) 6 times. [48 hdc]
Round 9 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 7hdc) 6 times. [54 hdc]
Round 10 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 8hdc,) 6 times. [60 hdc]
Round 11 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 9hdc) 6 times. [66 hdc]
Round 12 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 10hdc) 6 times. [72 hdc]
Round 13 (2hdc in 1 hdc, 11hdc) 6 times. [78 hdc]
Because the bobbles are pretty small, I knotted the ends together before weaving the ends in.
Back
Repeat Rounds 1-13, but without the bobbles.
Assembly
Put the pieces with their backsides together. Join Colour A with a ss in any stitch. When crocheting, insert your hook through all loops of the front- and backside. Crochet 1hdc in every hdc around. Steam block the potholders.
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