In the Loop: Radical Potholder Patterns
by Deborah Jean Cohen

The potholder loom is the introduction that many people had to weaving as a child. But it doesn't need to stop there. Very sophisticated color and patterning combinations are possible with this simple, low-cost loom. Once finished, the squares can be used as potholders or trivets but can also be sewn together to make larger pieces. Cohen's book provides large, easy-to-read drafts for 75 designs as well as instructions for creating your own.

Contents:

1. How to use this book, tips, tools, sources for materials
2. How to chart a potholder from scratch
3. Potholder patterns: plain weave
4. Potholder patterns: shadow weave
5. Potholder patterns: twill
6. A somewhat nerdy log cabin study
7. Potholder weavers: a look at the weavers who made the potholders in this book

This book can be used as a pattern library but you can also learn from it how to convert a standard weaving draft to a potholder draft and how to recreate a potholder that you've seen. Each of the drafts has one or more color photographs of the design in finished form. Instruction and inspiration combined!

Softcover, 186 pages