Knit the Potholder Base

• 1). Review the basic knitting instructions for casting on, a garter stitch and binding off if it has been a while since you last worked on a knitting project.
  
  
• 2). Cast on 35 stitches or enough stitches so that the width of the first row is close to 6.5 inches.
  
  
• 3). Slip the first stitch on the first row and on every row that follows. To slip a stitch, hold the working yarn in front then insert the right needle into the stitch from right to left, as if you were planning to purl a stitch. Instead of wrapping the yarn and making a stitch, simply transfer the stitch from the left needle to the right.
  
  
• 4). Move the working yarn to the back of the project to prepare to knit. Slipping the first stitch on every row gives you an even edge along the sides of the rows to place your crochet stitches later on.
  
  
• 5). Knit in every stitch across the row. Turn the work when you reach the end.
  
  
• 6). Repeat Steps 3 through 5 until the length of the potholder measures approximately 6.5 inches, the same as the width.
  
  
• 7). Bind off all of the stitches. This leaves you with one stitch on the needle at the upper-left corner of the potholder. Remove the needle from the stitch and place this stitch on your crochet hook.
  
  

Crochet the Edge of the Potholder

• 1). Work right to left, turning the potholder clockwise as you work. Insert the crochet hook into the base of the stitch already on the hook. Wrap the yarn around the hook once and pull it through. You now have two loops on the hook. Wrap the yarn around the hook once more and pull it through both loops on the hook. You've just made a single crochet stitch.
  
  
• 2). Make two more single crochet stitches in the corner of the potholder for a total of three. Then make single crochet stitches in each knit stitch along the edge. When you come to a corner, make three single crochet stitches. Repeat this pattern until you return to the starting corner.
  
  
• 3). Insert the crochet hook into the starting stitch. Wrap the yarn around the hook. Pull the yarn through the stitch then through the loop on the hook to prepare to fasten off.
  
  
• 4). Pull up the crochet hook to expand the last loop on the hook and cut the yarn at the apex of the loop.
  
  
• 5). Thread the yarn tail that is left over from cutting the loop into the yarn needle and weave the loose end under the stitches of the crochet row for a tidy finish. Repeat on the yarn tail at the start of the first row.