During the last months my knitting inspiration was quite low. All bigger project didn’t seem appealing to me, so I started (again) playing around with colorful cotton and small motifs. And here’s what I came up with. A knitting pattern for a hexagonal potholder with a flower motif. It starts with a provisional CO, is knitted in short row wedges and finished with grafting in garter stitch.
Since this is an intarsia project with two colours that also uses short rows, it can be quite fiddly. It is NOT a beginner pattern.

Knitted in Aran weight yarn the pieces measured between 22 and 25 cm in diameter.

The pattern PDF is 11 pages long and contains

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting this piece – including five photos of the different stages
• a brief explanation on how to adapt the pattern for a version with different petal colours (see third photo from top)
• pattern charts for one wedge of the original pattern and the variation
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques: provisional CO with a crochet hook and how to undo it, grafting in garter stitch, short rows with wrap and turn and picking up the wraps, intarsia knitting, weaving in yarn while carrying it (backwards and forwards)
• step-by-step explanations with photos of undoing the provisional CO in this pattern (i.e. catching stitches in different colours), grafting with colour changes

The last photo shows the WS of the piece.