Spooky Halloween potholder

Here is a free crochet pattern for the spooky Halloween potholder (or a hot pad). This potholder is double-sided and it is very thick.

This pattern is from the Spooky Halloween collection. You can see the full collection here.

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I have a few more patterns that fit perfectly for Halloween: the drawstring bag with a ghost, the drawstring bag with a bat, the drawstring bag with a skull, the tapestry crochet drawstring bag with a cat, the tapestry crochet moon bag and the spider coasters.

If you haven’t tried tapestry crochet before, you can take a look at my tutorial here.

You can find my other free crochet patterns here.

Good luck!

Spooky Halloween potholder

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Materials

Yarn: any thin yarn will work. I used Soft FRAYA Cotton 8/4 100% Organic cotton 50g – 180 m, colors: black and orange.
Hook: as suggested on your yarn label. I used a 2.0 mm hook.

Abbreviations (US terms)

ch: chain
sl st: slip stitch
sc: single crochet
msc: modified single crochet
prev: previous
st: stitch

Notes

The size of my potholder is 17.0 x 16.5 cm.

For this pattern you should be familiar with the tapestry crochet (you can find the tutorial here). Photo instructions below show the main steps how to make a potholder. This pattern uses a modified single crochet: make a single crochet back loop only, just instead of yarning over for the last step, yarn under (see the tutorial here).

You will work in continuous rounds, which means that in the end of a round you don’t join with a slip stitch, but instead continue making modified single crochets in the top of the first stitch of the round. Remember to use a marker showing the beginning of each round. Follow the color chart showing how you should change colors.

Pattern

Start by chaining 52 with black yarn.

Round 1: To make the first round, you will work down the chain, then turn and work in the other side of the chain. Make sc in every st of the chain starting from the second chain from your hook. Turn. 1 sc in the end of the chain, make sc in every st (starting with the one you have just worked into; now that st has 3 sc in total) until you come back to the beginning of the chain. 1 sc in the end of the chain. In total you should have 104 st. Don’t join with a sl st, instead continue with the next round.

Now add orange yarn and follow the color chart for all rounds until the end.

Round 2-43: msc in every st of the prev round.

In the end make 4 additional sl st in the back loop only in the next 4 st to even out the edge. Fasten off and sew the both sides of the potholder together.

Color chart

How to read the chart

Each square represents a stitch and its color. In each round you have 104 stitches. The color chart above shows only a half of the pattern: stitches 53-104 of each round (columns 53-104 in the chart). Columns 1-52 are the same as column 53 (rows 1, 2, 42 and 43 are black, the rest of the rows are orange). Rows represent rounds. For each round you have to read the row in the chart from right to left.

You can find a more detailed tutorial explaining how to read a color chart and when and how to change yarn color here.

Photo instructions for the spooky Halloween potholder

Round 1

1. Start by chaining 52 with black yarn. You will start working in the second chain from your hook.

2. So, make a single crochet in the second chain from your hook.

3. Keep making single crochets in every stitch until the end of the row.

4. Then make one single crochet in the end of the chain.

5. Turn your work and make one more single crochet in the same stitch.

6. Then continue making single crochets in every stitch until you reach the end.

7. Make one single crochet in the end of the chain. In total you should have 104 stitches.

Round 2

8. Don’t join with a slip stitch. Instead insert your hook in the top of the first single crochet of the first round grabbing just the back loop.

9. Yarn over.

10. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook. In round 2 you have to introduce the orange yarn. So, take your orange yarn and put it behind your hook and in front of the black yarn like it is shown in the picture.

11. Yarn under the black yarn.

12. Pull the yarn through. Notice how the orange yarn is wrapped around with the black yarn.

13. Then insert your hook in the next stitch grabbing just the back loop.

14. Yarn over the black yarn.

15. Pull the yarn through. Now you have two loops on your hook.

16. Yarn under the black yarn.

17. Pull the yarn through. You have just made a modified single crochet.

18. Continue working in the same way until the end of the row. Don’t complete the last stitch of the row, stop when you have two loops on your hook. The first stitch in round 3 is orange. This means that you have to change yarn color.

19. So, put the orange yarn up.

20. Yarn under.

21. Pull the yarn through. Now the orange yarn is ready to use.

Round 3

22. Continue to work with the orange yarn in round 3.

Round 5

23. In round 5 the 73rd stitch is black. So, complete the 72nd stitch with the black yarn.

24. Start making the the 73rd stitch with the black yarn, but stop when you have two loops on your hook. Next stitch is orange, so you have to change yarn color again.