Pick a solid yarn or get multi-colored yarn for a vibrant potholder.
If you’re new to making slip knots, practice a few times. To tell if you’ve correctly made a slip knot, keep pulling the yarn in opposite directions. The knot should come undone instead of tightening.
This makes the foundation or bottom edge for your potholder. Although gauge doesn’t matter very much for this project, you may want to crochet tighter if your chain is longer than 10 inches (25 cm) or make looser stitches if your chain is too short.
The single crochet stitch is one of the fastest crochet stitches to work, so this potholder comes together quickly.
This means you’ll make a total of 34 SC stitches on this side of the foundation chain.
It’s really important that you don’t join the rows and turn the work. Instead, remember to SC into the back loops.
This makes 2 layers of fabric, which form the double-thick potholder.
If you don’t want your potholder to have a hanging loop, just skip these steps and tie off your working yarn.
If you forget to leave a long yarn tail, just tie a 2 ft (24 in) length of yarn to the end of your yarn tail and use it to sew the potholder shut.
If you feel more comfortable making the slip stitch, use a tapestry needle to slip stitch between the stitches on the edges of the potholder to join them.
