Christmas Crochet Potholder With Candy Cane Stripes: Free Crochet Pattern
Ready to get your Christmas baking and Christmas crafting on? You have plenty of time to crochet some Christmas-y potholders! They make excellent gifts, but they’re also nice to keep on hand — especially if you do a lot of baking during the holiday season.
These fun potholders are decorated with eye-catching red and white stripes, which remind me of a candy cane. If you change the colors, the design becomes suitable for year-around use.
You can get the freepotholder pattern here, and you can also check out a couple of additional colorways including a blue and green variegated colorway and a red, white and blue design. The red white and blue version has additional surface crocheted details; surface crochet slip stitch is a technique you can use for easily adding a third color to the design without having to completely redesign the crochet color chart.
No matter which version of the potholders you decide to try, you’ll need to have an understanding of the single crochet stitch, plus the tapestry crochet technique to do the color changes. People generally think of tapestry crochet as being an intermediate, or maybe even advanced level technique; I personally don’t think it’s that difficult. It does require a bit of patience to master, but once you’ve practiced a bit it’s a piece o’ cake.
Please note: if this is your first experience with tapestry crochet, I do recommend picking an easier pattern than this one to start with. For example, try this checkerboard chart, which is a better starter pattern with this technique. There’s also a Christmas version of the checkerboard, which you could use for making a Christmas blanket or Christmas pillow if you like.
See Also:
- This list of candy cane crafts features project instructions with a candy cane theme
- Check out more Christmas patterns HERE.
- Visit our main directory of free crochet potholder patterns