Crochet Bobble Heart Potholder

Back:

With color 2 – ch 28, using your I (5.5 mm) hook.

Row 1: Switch to your H (5.0 mm) hook. Skipping the first chain (ch), single crochet (sc) in the second chain from the hook and sc across (27 stitches).
Rows 2 – 30: Repeat Row 1.

view of the yellow back piece of the bobble heart potholder, includes a skein of yarn and a blue crochet hook

Ready for the home stretch? The edging!

This is that pretty border and little loop to hang your potholder from cabinet knobs and oven handles.

in-progress view of the border of the bobble heart potholder, as it's being crocheted

Edging:
Row 1: After finishing Row 25 of the potholder body, ch 1. Lay the back piece onto the potholder and align the edges. Begin crocheting down the side of the potholder [color 1], joining the back and front pieces. Work 30 sc into the side, plus 2 extra sc in corner, sc 27, 2 extra sc in corner, sc 30, 2 extra sc in corner, sc 27, 2 extra sc in corner. Connect to first sc with a slip stitch. Trim and weave in ends.

two hands crocheting the border of the bobble heart potholder

Row 2: Attach color 2 at any point, sc until you reach a corner, sc 1, ch 15, sc 2, continue sc all the way around (with 3 sc in each corner). Join to first sc with slip stitch. Trim and weave in ends.

hand flipping over the bobble heart potholder to show the back

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back view of the bobble heart potholder, lots of yarn ends showing

Speaking of weaving in ends… there’s a lot of that to do, so I hope you love your tapestry needle! Above you can see the back of my potholder, before I wove everything in. Pretty crazy, right?! There is a lot of color changing, and rather than carrying an extra color for the whole time, I just added and dropped as necessary.

UPDATE 2/2019: You don’t have to cut the yarn on every row — since the second color is all in one area, you can drop it after each color change and pick it up in the next row.

close-up view of the texture of the bobble heart potholder

If you’ve finished weaving in your ends, you’re totally done! What do you think? I just love the texture the bobbles create! I’m so excited to hang this bad boy on my oven handle so I can look at it every day.

I kind of have a problem with pretty kitchen things — I never want to actually use them, for fear of spilling tomato basil soup or something all over them!

I suppose it’s nothing a little Shout! couldn’t fix, but I still worry!

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