Hot Pads

I am trying out some different crochet styles. One of the things I wanted to try was to make Hot Pads. These will most likely be Christmas gifts. I started this Hot Pad from a pattern that I found in Norwegian. Unfortunately for me...I don't speak Norwegian. I understood the pattern for the first 3 rows...then couldn't figure it out. So I made the rest up. I used a size F needle. Once I could not read the norwegian ladies blog, I just did an increase every other row. That way it would lay flat, other words it would have curled up and started forming a hat!

So here is the first 2 rows:



Then I switched colors:


Then I switched colors one more time and then added a border: