Knitting Project: Potholders

I'll be moving soon, and I've almost finished new potholders for the new apartment (location still TBA). They should have been pretty easy to knit up, but for some reason the basketwave stitch and I weren't seeing eye to eye at the start.

I got the fabric and the batting at the last knitting party I attended in Somerville, and the very red yarn I found at the Davis Square Goodwill for 50 cents.

Here's a finished potholder:












And a view of the opposite side with the pretty, yet tricky basketweave:












Here are the pieces of the soon-to-be finished pair to match the first one: