Two More Large Potholders

 So, I used up the loops that came with the Pro Potholder Loom to make the two potholders I shared before and the struggles I had with them because it had been so long since I made a potholder. The loom still hurts my hands, and pulling the loops through with the wire hook takes some strength and makes my hand and arm hurt a little, so I have to weave in spurts. It might be easier if I wasn't sitting in my recliner holding the loom in one hand while pulling loops over and under with a hook in the other, but for now that's how it is.

I bought a separate bag of loops, because I thought hubby might enjoy doing them while he watched TV. He has to be busy at something. However, he doesn't think he can handle it because he was electrocuted on his job several years ago. The voltage went in through his hand and blew a hole out in his neck, requiring skin grafts on both. He doesn't have a lot of use in that hand now, so, so far, he hasn't tried the potholder thing.

The refill loop bag has enough to make six large potholders, and I have used enough to make two. Hubby loves using the first two I made. Now he's wanting me to make enough for Christmas presents for everybody. Yikes! I mean, I enjoy making them, but I have other stuff that I want, and need, to do...

These two went much faster and smoother than the first two, especially the last one, because I remembered the trick, above, about raising the warp loops up, and I learned a new trick about taking the loops off the loom when I'm through weaving. When I get the loops off one edge, I take the center of that edge and loop on back over the loom peg to hold it taunt. Doing this on three edges keeps the last edge on the pegs so the whole edge doesn't fall off and get tangled.

The blue and orange one took less than two hours, and I stopped a couple of times. I was in no hurry to get it done. The top half looks off key because I made a couple of mistakes and decided to just go with it. The first booboo was when I added the dark blue loop across, meaning to make a cross with that color, I had failed to put one up the center vertically to make a cross. The second booboo was I wove three or four blue loops through before noticing that I had two loops through the same warp loop right over the dark blue loop. I didn't want to pull out and re-weave that many, so I just repeated the pattern to finish it out. If I was going to gift or sell it I would have re-woven them, but it doesn't bother me, and I was lazy, so we'll use it as is. Besides it's kind of unique and quirky!

Fun Stuff!