Potholders á la Fraser - Outlander in your Kitchen

Potholders á la Fraser

A piece of “Outlander” in your kitchen: Potholders with Tartan-Look. And as I am one of these Outlander Fans it is of course the Fraser Tartan.

Knitting the Tartan pattern is really easy. It is knitted in stocking stitch and where the vertical colored line will be placed later you do a purl stitch. In this vertical purl columns you later add slip-stitches via a crochet hook. The technique is also called “Pinstriping”.

This kind of knitting, the more or less small needle size and knitting with double thread provide a compact texture of the potholder.

As you knitting with a double strand I used 2 balls of yarn of each color which in the end would be enough for 2 - 3 pairs of potholders. Needlesize is 3.5 and Crochet Hook 4.5. The size of my potholders is around 7.5” x 8.3”.