How to Make Potholder Loops
Make Your Own Potholder Loops
You've got one of those little metal potholder looms, and now you need to know how to make potholder loops. After all, the point of this fun craft is to make a great, useful product for next to nothing. Make sure the socks or other clothes you're using have a little stretch to them so they start out a bit smaller than the loom so you can stretch them onto the loom pegs.
Making potholders on a loom is a fun craft for all ages:
- Little kids can help pick colors.
- Older kids can place the first set of loops on the loom.
- You or the even older children hanging around your house can weave the second row of loops through the first row. You or those teenagers can also finish off the edges of the potholders.
Make your own loops so you'll have plenty of loops on hand for when the potholder-making mood strikes!
Making potholders on a loom is a fun craft for all ages:
- Little kids can help pick colors.
- Older kids can place the first set of loops on the loom.
- You or the even older children hanging around your house can weave the second row of loops through the first row. You or those teenagers can also finish off the edges of the potholders.
Make your own loops so you'll have plenty of loops on hand for when the potholder-making mood strikes!
How to Make Potholder Loops
Things You'll Need
- old socks
- other clothing, like tiny pants, size 12 months or smaller
- sewing scissors
The next time you sort socks, don't throw the old holey ones in the rag bag or in the trash; make potholder loops out of them. Just be sure to wash them first!
Good Scissors for Making Potholder Loops
Be sure to do the cutting yourself or let a responsible older child do this part.
Did you make potholders as a child?
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Nylon loops make smaller potholders.
These are fine for play kitchens
where hot pans are not used.
Nylon loop potholders are not recommended for hot pans in a real live kitchen because they can melt.
Potholders on eBay
Start Making Potholder Loops
Off with the toes! Off with the heels! (of the socks, of course!)
To make potholder loops, cut off the toes of the socks. Just trim across the sock so you'll end up with an evenly sized sock (no pointy little toe portion needed!).Next, cut loops from the bottom of the sock by using scissors to cut small (about 1/4-inch) loops. Stop when you get to the heel.
Cut off the heel of the sock as shown in this photo to get an evenly sized top of the sock.
Continue cutting loops till you get to the top of the sock. Ta da!
See the photos below for photos of the toe removal process along with other photos of loop making from socks.
How to Make Potholder Loops
Use Socks for Quick Easy Loops (click each image to enlarge it)
Start with a pair of socks. Ones with big fat holes in the toe or heel are perfect! Oh, and make sure they're clean.
Potholder? Socks? You decide.
This is the potholder I made from the pair of socks I chopped up. It is a bit wonky and misshapen, but that's okay.I think the culprit of the goofy shape is the tops of the socks. The top parts, the cuffs, were a little more stretchy than the socks themselves. Oh well.
Potholder Looms
So your loops don't get lonely
Cotton and wool loops
make larger potholders.
Cotton and wool loop potholders
are sturdy and hold up well to real live kitchen use.
Scissors Sharpener
To Keep You Cutting Loops Till the Cows Come Home
Make Potholders
or buy some cute vintage potholders!
Use the same kind of loops
(either all nylon or all cotton)
to make a potholder.
The stretch will be consistent and make a square potholder.
More Ways to Make Potholder Loops
and more ways to make potholders
When you've hacked up all of your family's socks, you need to know how to make potholder loops out of, say t-shirts. Here you go!
- make your own POTHOLDER LOOPS from t-shirts Click on "View as slideshow" on the right >> - a set on Flickr
- Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
- Pot Holder Patterns & Crafts Instructions for Kids to Make Their Own Pot holders : Arts and Crafts Activities for Children & Teens
- Pot Holder Patterns & Crafts Instructions for Kids to Make Their Own Pot holders : Arts and Crafts Activities for Children & Teens
Potholder Loops to Buy
For when you've run out of clothes to cut up
Potholders for Sale
A great comment from a reader and potholders for sale
In the poll above, I received this great comment in my email inbox. It isn't showing up here so I just had to share it!- The summer I was 9, I made a whole bunch of these potholders. Went around the neighborhood selling them 10 cents each OR 3 for 25 cents. I made enough money to buy myself a pair of roller skates. :)
I'd call that quite a deal for the customers of those potholders!
And here is a potholder for sale on Etsy. And another.
Did you make potholders as a child?
Do you still?
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bossypants
Jan 16, 2012 @ 1:08 pm | delete
- Yes! And I also looped yarn ontot he loom with the intention of making squares for an afghan. Sadly, I lacked the tenacity to get more than a few squares done.
This lens is a fun trip down memory lane!
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SoftballNut
Jan 14, 2012 @ 6:01 am | delete
- YES YES YES. I wanted to make a potholder quilt when I was 13. However I needed a new softball glove my parents wouldnt pay for. So I went door to door selling off my potholders. I got the glove and used it well through college varsity softball. A great investment born from a fun craft.
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skiesgreen
Jan 8, 2012 @ 10:40 pm | delete
- No, never heard of this in Australia. Great info and I was wondering what to do with those old socks but must get the loom. *Blessed* and featured on Blessed by Skiesgreen 2012 Hugs.
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hntrssthmpsn
Jan 8, 2012 @ 4:57 pm | delete
- Oh my gosh! Potholder looms, and those bags of loops... I made about a billion of these when I was a kid, and I can't tell you how long it's been since I've thought about them. This is so great! I'm a fabric horder (including socks and just about every other kind of old clothes)... what a great way to use them! Thank you for sharing!
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Frischy
Jan 7, 2012 @ 1:48 pm | delete
- Fun lens that brought back lots of memories. I have a few potholders my niece made for me. They are my favorite potholders. I never could interest my daughter in making me even one. She made one for her Grandmother and that was it. Guess it just wasn't her thing.
I will be linking to this lens from my Uses for Odd Socks lens! This is a great idea as a way to use those odd socks we all have lying around!
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susan300
Jan 7, 2012 @ 1:11 pm | delete
- I remember making these!! So much fun. Never thought of using socks though. great idea! :)
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ngio64
Jan 6, 2012 @ 11:48 pm | delete
- What a great idea!
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wordstock
Jan 6, 2012 @ 9:59 pm | delete
- Right after we reloaded the rifles we made potholders. It was an easy way to get all the gunpowder off our hands.
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terrapin719
Jan 6, 2012 @ 9:50 pm | delete
- Oh, smart! I never even thought about making loops. I bet they're better than the weird ones in the big bag from the craft store too.
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ProductLensesForSale
Jan 6, 2012 @ 6:22 pm | delete
- I love seeing crafting - well done
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Thanks so much.
I make potholders loops
when I have old socks lying around.
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