Caramat Cabled Set

Everyone needs a set of hot pads or pot holders in their kitchen and this set works up beautifully and quickly! Made with 100% worsted-weight cotton, they can also double as easycare trivets for your countertops.

- Bonnie Barker

INTERMEDIATE

FINISHED MEASUREMENT

6½ inches square

MATERIALS

Lily Sugar'n Cream Super Size medium (worsted) weight cotton yarn (4 oz/200 yds/ 113g per ball): 1 ball #813 jade mist 

Size H/8/5mm crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge

Tapestry needle

GAUGE

16 sts=4 inches; 9 rows = 4 inches

PATTERN NOTES

Weave in loose ends as work progresses.

Join with slip stitch as indicated unless otherwise stated.

Reverse single crochet is also known as knurl stitch or crab stitch.

HOT PAD

FRONT SIDE

Ch 23.

Row 1 (RS): De in 3rd ch from hook (beg 2 sk chs do not count as a st) and in each ch across, turn. (21 dc)

Row 2: Ch 2 (does not count as a st here and throughout), sk first st, bpde (see Stitch Guide) around each st across, hdc in top of turning ch, turn. (21 bpdc, 1 hdc)

Row 3: Ch 2, sk first st, [sk next 2 sts, fpdc (see Stitch Guide) around next 2 sts, working in front of last 2 sts, fpdc around 2 sk sts (cable made)] across, hdc in top of turning ch, turn. (5 cables, 1 hdc)

Row 4: Rep row 2.