Update: Christmas Potholder Crochet Pattern

Hello! It seems I am often here just on weekend, I've been quite busy these days, so it's really happy every time I can have a talk - or thought to you. But I always keep going around to enjoy your lovely worlds at any time I can. Thanks ever so much for all your lovely words on the Christmas Potholder from my last post, if only you know how it brightened my days!

Well, I promised to post the pattern for the Christmas potholder in my last post, I do it right now. This pattern is from a Japanese book, I found chart via Picasa. The problem is I could not find the link again to share you here, as I printed it out and lazy me did not save the link :(. So I've uploaded the one I have to my Picasa album, you can get it if you are interested in.

For those who are not used to reading chart, I did "translate" it into US crochet term just in case. Please let me know if there are something unclear :).

You can use any yarn and hook.
Gauge: Not important.

FRONT:
With RED, make a magic circle.
1. Ch 1, sc in loop, (3 dc, 2 sc) 4 times, join to beginning chain.
2. *Ch 4, sl st in between 2 sc, repeat from * 3 times, join to beginning chain.
3. Ch 1, *sc into the ch-4 space, 5 dc, sc in the same space. Repeat from * 3 times, join to the beginning chain.
4. *Ch 6, sl st to the previous sl st, repeat from * 3 times. Join.
5. *Ch 1, sc into the ch-6 space, 8 dc, sc in the same space. Repeat from * 3 times. Join to beg ch and cut the yarn.
6. With GREEN, *ch 4, sl st to the previous sl st, repeat from * 3 times. Join to beg ch.
7. Sl st into space, *ch 3, dc decrease into the same space, ch 1, (cluster (3 dc joined), ch 1) 3 times in the same space. Repeat from * in each space around. (total 16 cluster ch 1). Join to the top of beginning chain 3.
8. Ch 4, dc in ch-1 space. *Dc, ch 1, dc* in each ch-1 space around. Cut the yarn.
9. With WHITE, sl st in to the ch-1 space, ch 3, dc in the same space, *ch 1, 2 dc, ch 1, 2 dc* around. Ch 1, 2 dc in the first space, ch 1 (made shell), join to the top of beg ch3.
10 - 11. Repeat row 9.
12. Ch 3, 2 dc in the same space, *ch 1, 3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc* around. Ch 1, 3 dc in the first space (made shell), ch 1, join to the top of beg ch3. Cut the yarn.
13. With RED, Ch 3, 2 dc in the same space, dc in the ch-1 space, *3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc, dc in the ch-1 space* around. 3 dc in the first space (made shell), ch 1, join to the top of beg ch3. Cut the yarn.
14. With WHITE, Ch 3, 3 dc in the same space, dc in the previous dc, *8 dc in the ch-1 space, dc in the previous dc* around. 4 dc in the first space (made shell of 8dc), join to the top of beg ch3. Cut the yarn.

BACK:
With RED, magic circle.
1. ch 3, 15 dc into the loop. Join to the top of 1st ch 3 (total 16 dc).
2. Ch 3, dc in the same st, 2 dc in each dc around. Join to the top of 1st ch 3 (total 32 dc).
3. With GREEN, ch 3, *2 dc in next st, dc in next st* around. Join to the top of 1st ch 3 (total 48 dc).
4. Ch 3, dc in the same st, *ch 1, 2 dc, ch 1, 2 dc* around. Ch 1, 2 dc in the first st, ch 1 (made shell), join to the top of beg ch3.
5 - 7. Repeat row 4.
8. With RED, Ch 3, 2 dc in the same space, dc in the ch-1 space, *3 dc, ch 1, 3 dc, dc in the ch-1 space* around. 3 dc in the first space (made shell), ch 1, join to the top of beg ch3. Cut the yarn.
14. With WHITE, Ch 3, 3 dc in the same space, dc in the previous dc, *8 dc in the ch-1 space, dc in the previous dc* around. 4 dc in the first space (made shell of 8dc), join to the top of beg ch3. Cut the yarn.

Edging and Hanger: With WS facing, Join RED yarn, ch 1, sc all around, join to the beginning ch. Ch 18, skip 8sc, join to the next sc. Turn and sc increase for the remaining chains.

Hope you enjoy your weekend! :)