Apple Puff Hot Pad: A Crochet Pattern Review

A Crochet Pattern Review of the Apple Puff Hot Pad by Elizabeth of Pearl & Twine.

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Hey Friends! I am stoked to share this crochet pattern review of the Apple Puff Hot Pad with you! This post is part of An Apple A Day Crafting Event that is hosted by Yarn Crafts & Coffee! I am participating along with Eye Love Knots and T & C Crafters to bring you 7 days of Apple-themed ideas and patterns! We might even be doing a fun apple-themed event in-store late this month! Maybe head on over to the events tab for more info on that!

This Pattern review is Day 3 of the event! Click the photo above to go to the event page and see all of the other fun ideas!

This pattern is available on Ravelry for a small fee. It includes instructions for left handed and right handed crocheters. She has written instruction and a graph. You can purchase this pattern by itself or get the Ebook with 3 additional pot holder patterns for an acorn, a mushroom, and a pumpkin.

What Materials do You need to crochet an Apple Puff Hot Pad?

• Worsted Weight Cotton Yarn
• H8/5mm Crochet Hook or whichever size meets gauge
• Tapestry Needle for weaving in ends
• The Apple Puff Hot Pad Pattern – Paid on Ravelry

Material Information:

The designer chose Bernat Handicrafter Cotton Solids, and recommends Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton as an alternative. I did use some Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton from my stash. The notes on Ravelry say that you only need between 4-27 yards for this, but I definitely used more like 50 yards of white, about 45 yards of red, 10 yards of green and 7 yards of brown.

Cotton is best for hot pads due to the extreme heat, but it is not best for tapestry crochet. You can see in the photo below that even though my stitches are on the tighter side, you can see my carried red yarn through the white stitches. Personally when I do tapestry technique I like to use something like wool or acrylic, something that will be a little more fuzzy and have a little give to it to hide the carried yarn better. When you look at the overall hot pad, the carried yarn isn’t that noticeable, so it’s all good.

Gauge:

Gauge is not listed for this pattern, however she does say that if you crochet loosely you will want to go down a hook size. You don’t want loose stitches because you are carrying colors and loose stitches will show your carried colors more than tight stitches will. The finished hot pad will be about 10″ x 10″.

Pattern Notes:

It took me just over 2 hours to complete this hot pad. Even though this hot pad is super cute, I wasn’t super happy with this. The picture is made with puff stitches. Usually for a puff stitch you load up your hook with however many loops, yarn over and pull though all but the last 2 loops, yarn over again and pull through the last 2. This is how you create a nice, secure puff stitch. The puff stitches that are used here, you yarn over and pull up 7 loops, then yarn over and pull through everything. Unfortunately without that extra step of yarning over and pulling the last 2 loops separately, the puff stitches are not very secure. This caused a lot of extra loops to pull out of the back side of the hot pad. In the photo below I put arrows to show a few of the worst ones, but many of the loops are extended on the back. If I were to make this again, I would use the traditional puff stitch and I think the image would come out the same. I think I will put some cotton fabric on the back side so that these pulls don’t get any worse.

Overall this hot pad came out really cute! It would also make a fun blanket square if crocheted in wool or acrylic! I hope you enjoyed this pattern review, and thanks for joining in the Apple A Day Crafting Event!