Learn to Hand Weave - Easy Loom Potholder!

1. Introduction: Hello everyone. My name is Madelyn permitting house square and today I have a fun crafting tutorial for you here on Skillshare. What I'm gonna be taking you through today is one of these kind of like near and dear to my heart, which is the limb pot holder. If you've never made one of these before, how it works is we're gonna start off with one of these seven inch looms. We have so many different loops here. You can find them in all sorts of different color waves, color combinations. I just got like a mixed bag of them so I can create any designer like first we're gonna start by setting up the vertical loops, which is what I have here. Then once we set up all our vertical loops, I'm going to show you how to leave the ones back and forth going horizontally. Then lastly, I'll take you through how to use the crochet hook defined off all the way around the outer edge. If you enjoyed this tutorial and this is something you'd be interested in seeing more of here on Skillshare and be sure to hit follow next to my channel. That way you get updated anytime I post a new video. First step, I'm gonna take you through all of this applies I appear that I use to create these different color combinations and aluminum using. Once you've completed this class, be sure to upload a picture of your finished project. I love to see everyone's cool designs and color combinations. 2. Materials: First, I just wanted to go through and talk about the materials we need to create one of these pot holders. A lot of times online, what you can get are these pot holder kids. So I'll link to this one down below. This is actually by one of my favorite yarn brands, Harris will designs and they make these really high-quality loops. And then also the full kit here that I'm using. What you need is a seven inch loom. So that is what we have here. Then to bind off, you need a crochet hook. And this is a 6.5 millimeter crochet hook. Some of the kits will also come with one of these hooks where you can use this curve side to pull the loops through your work. You'll see when I show how I make mine that I don't actually like using these hooks. I just do it all by hand. But a lot of times you will get one of these in your kits as well. Then lastly, the most fun part, all of our loops in total to make one pot holder on one of these seven-inch looms, you need 36 loops. For the designs on making. I used exactly 18 of two different color ways. This one I used 18 purple, 18 blue. Then this 118 peach, 18 of this pink color. That is exactly how many I used. So now I'm gonna get all set up and show you the loops that I picked out for this project. 3. Loom Set-Up and Weaving: Now I have all my colors picked out. So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to set up all my different colors going lengthwise, right? So we're gonna do the first 18 going vertically. So again, this is really up to you whatever design you'd like to create. I'm gonna do three of each color and alternate between the two. Now I have my first set of loops on there, all the ones going vertically. Now we have the fun ones where we're gonna go horizontally and we're going to go above and below each one of the existing ones. So first, I start down here at the bottom, and then I go up towards the top. And a lot of the kids are gonna come with hooks like this. I actually don't really like to use these sucks might be an unpopular opinion. The idea behind these is that you're going to basically go above than below. Keep on going back and forth. Then you can drag a loop all the way across. The way I actually prefer to do it is I just take a loop and then I just use my hands to weave it up and down all the way across. When I say above and below are up and down. What I mean by that is basically you're gonna go either above or below this first loop. Then you're gonna do the opposite for the next loop. Opposite for the next one. And keep on going above and below. You want to make sure you're getting both sides of the loop when you're going either above or below. For example, let's start down here in the lower left. So I'm gonna go first below. I'm going below the first full loop. We get that to focus. Then I'm going to go above the full second loop. Then below the third loop, above, below, below. And once I get a ways across, I can actually pull on it and make sure it's looping over here on the left-hand side. I want to make sure this stays here and doesn't keep on getting dragged all the way across. Now I've got all the way across. So next I'm just going to push it down so that it gets a little bit closer to this edge. And that's one thing I'm going to keep on doing as I go all the way up is I'm going to keep on pushing the loops down so they stay nice and tight. Also one last thing to notice, this loop isn't twisted at all. It just lies flat all the way across. What I mean by twisted is it doesn't have a section where it crosses over itself. You don't want that, you want it to remain nice and flat and untwist it. Again, going up vertically, I'm gonna be doing three of the first pillar than three at the second color. We want to make sure we're alternating between going above and below. So I went below for the first strand. So now I'm gonna go above. Then below. Once you get a little waves, hook it onto the second loop. It looks like I made a little mistake there. Nice thing about this. This is easy to fix. Now I've gone across my full second one. So again, I'm gonna push it all the way down. Those two are nice and close to each other. Now for the third one, now I've done three in the first colorway. So I'm gonna move on to my second color way. I'm going to keep on going all the way across. Now once I start getting up here closer to the top, I'll show you the little trick I do to put it in the last few rows because those are definitely the hardest. 4. Helpful Tips for the Last Few Rows: Now I have just about three loops left and one tip I wanted to give you as I'm getting closer, if you're at the top. Is that one way that makes it a little bit easier I've found to keep them all nice and tight. And in a row is I actually use my crochet hook. I pull them all down as I'm going along. Actually haven't done this in a few rows, but I just keep on pulling them down, looping my crochet hook into the loops and pulling them because it can be pretty hard to get them really, really tight. That's looking good. Now, as promised, here are some tips for how to do that top portion. The first thing I found is helpful is actually just ungrouping the ones that I need to go underneath. First, I'm just gonna do the first few here. These ones at the top, they tend to get really, really tight. Even if you use this hook, there's not much room to actually get the hook to go through and then it does really tight as well. So I like to go along and just unleashed the ones that I need to go underneath. Do a few in a row here. Perfect, So there's one. I'm going to pull it down. Now if Two more. 5. Crochet Hook Bind-Off: Now I've finished going all the way through all of my hooks. And so what we're gonna do next real quick. So I'm just going to pull in all of these loops from the edges and I'm going to go around all four sides. So just pulling that outermost loop a little bit further towards the center. Now next up, we're going to bind off all the way around the edges. You can start at any one of the four corners that you want to. I'm just going to start down here in the bottom right-hand corner. So now I'm gonna take my crochet hook and I'm going to pick up, I always do it like the further away loop of that first one. Slide it onto my crochet hook and off of the hook. Now again, I'm going to pick up the further away half the next loop. Take it off of the hook. Now I want to use my crochet hook to pull the one that's closer to the hook through the other loop. Now we're going to pick up one more. Pull this one through the existing one. Again, pick up another one. Pull it through the existing one. I'm going to keep on going all the way down this side. Up two, The last one, pull that one through. Now before I turned to work the next slide, I wanted to take a few of these loops and hook them back over that edge. I usually try to get about two of them. Got a few more than that. So that is perfect there. What that does is it keeps the tension all the way across and it makes it easier to cast off each one of these sides. Now I'm going to rotate it. Now. I'm just going to continue casting off all the way up this edge. Now again, before I turned my work, I'm gonna take this side and hook it over in a few spots. Always does take quite a bit of strength here. Now all the way along this edge. Here's my last loop. Now. I'm going to thread that one through. And now I'm just going to leave that one right on my crochet hook. And I'm going to take all these sides off now to get them to even out again, which kind of tug on my work a little bit. And then they're just going to blend right back in again. Perfect. So now you can't even really tell at all where I had it hooked in those different locations. Now for the traditional pot holder, we just leave this one, oops, a little too tight. We just leave this hook as what you hang it from. 6. Finished Project: That was all the steps to creating one of these adorable pot holders. What's great is that this loop is already built-in, so we already have something to hang it from. Now if you do have any little threads hanging out like there are a few right there, you can just trim them. It doesn't make anything unravel. Everything's nice and secure. You can just trim those off. And I hope you enjoyed this video. I have a lot of fun making these really does bring me back to my childhood. If you have any comments, be sure to leave them in the comments section of this video. Also, if you're new and haven't seen any of my tutorials before, make sure you give my channel here on Skillshare of follow that way you stay updated whenever I post a new class. I'll see you next time.