Today I would like to present an interesting pattern for kitchen pot holders made using a filet crochet method. Pot holders were made with the leftover 100% cotton yarn (Drops Paris - col. 35 vanilla) from a different project. The recommended size of the hook for this yarn is 5 mm (US - size 8/H; UK - 6). However, I found it easier to work with 4 mm hook (US - 6/G; UK - 8) instead. To crochet a single pot-holder without a border and decorations a 50 g of yarn is just perfect. To make 2 pot-holders overall I used slightly less than 150 g of yarn. The pattern I followed comes from a blog of Marifu6a. The author has also provided a full step-by-step photo tutorial, a diagram and description in English. A slightly modified pattern you can also see on the YouTube presented kindly by Oana. The border was done in the following manner - V stitch - double crochet (US; treble crochet - UK), single chain, double crochet in one "window", then a single crochet in the ...
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