Only 6 weeks to go till Christmas, so you better hurry up if you want to make some Christmas decorations for your tree.
Making them yourself makes this whole period more fulfilling. It will create the Christmas atmosphere in the house, weeks in advance. With this easy pattern it will be ready in no time.
The yarn used is explained in 'Fancy up your yarn!' (cotton with sewing thread)
I have also tried the same pattern with a normal acrylic yarn (the grey ones ) but as it is not heavy enough it won't hang so nice in the tree.
Have fun!
PATTERN
Ch 5 on hook size 3 mm and form a ring with 1 sl st in first ch.
Row 1: ch 1, 11 sc in ch-ring, finish with 1 sl st in first ch.
Row 2: ch 2, * 1 dc in next sc, ch 6, 1 dc in next sc *, repeat 5 times, 1 dc in next sc, ch 6, finish with 1 sl st in 2nd ch from beg of round = 6 ch spaces.
Row 3: ch 1, * 1 sc between the next 2 dc, 4 sc in ch space, ch 3, 1 sc in 3rd ch from hook, 4 sc in ch space *, repeat from *-* a total of 5 times, 1 sc between the next 2 dc, 4 sc in ch space, ch 20, 4 sc in ch space, finish with 1 sl st in ch from beg of round.
Fasten off.
Stitches used:Row 1: ch 1, 11 sc in ch-ring, finish with 1 sl st in first ch.
Row 2: ch 2, * 1 dc in next sc, ch 6, 1 dc in next sc *, repeat 5 times, 1 dc in next sc, ch 6, finish with 1 sl st in 2nd ch from beg of round = 6 ch spaces.
Row 3: ch 1, * 1 sc between the next 2 dc, 4 sc in ch space, ch 3, 1 sc in 3rd ch from hook, 4 sc in ch space *, repeat from *-* a total of 5 times, 1 sc between the next 2 dc, 4 sc in ch space, ch 20, 4 sc in ch space, finish with 1 sl st in ch from beg of round.
Fasten off.
ch = chain
sc = single crochet
dc = double crochet
What a lovely star! I'll have to try this:)
ReplyDeleteHi Sonja, it is an easy pattern,finished in no time but elegant. Hope it works out well for you!
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely star! Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial!
ReplyDeleteand so easy, that makes it even more great ... :-)
DeleteThis is perfect for my 8 month old's Christmas tree, thank you!!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, it's perfect, the design is not too big. Have fun decorating your tree in a few weeks time :-)
DeleteLovely! Thank you for sharing this pattern.
ReplyDeleteMariel
Have fun with it :-)
DeleteWOW! What a lovely Christmas star! I was looking around for a nice pattern. I find it!!! Thank you very much for sharing!!!
ReplyDeleteMay I share it on my blog to my followers? I do it only with your permission.
Best wishes, Vera (from: veranadine.blogspot.nl)
Hi Vera, of course you can share it on your blog. Veel plezier er mee :-)
DeleteDankjewel! Thank you very much!
DeleteYou can find the blogpost here: http://veranadine.blogspot.nl/2012/11/sterren.html
It is in Dutch, but the photos tell enough!
Vera
Hi Vera, thanks for the back link :-)
Deletelove this one ... :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea!! I love it, I saw it by Vera (post above)...thanxx for sharing!! Grtzz..Maddy
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the pattern.:)
ReplyDeleteThank You! It will be an awesome gift for my girlfriend as we exchange hand made gifts. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea!
DeleteThank you so much for the pattern <3 Gonna make a bunch of these for myself and to give away :) And also great idea with the sewing thread ! Instantly makes the yarn a bit more interesting !
ReplyDeletethe star i have been looking for. Lovely. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this pattern!
ReplyDeleteIt's a very lovely star!!
I happened to have a somewhat similar yarn in my stash -- cream and blue and fuzzy and just finished my first little decoration. Thanks for sharing such an easy and pretty pattern. I plan to finish up this little ball of yarn with a bunch more. Best wishes, Tammy
ReplyDeleteLovely! So fast/easy! Thanks for the pattern
ReplyDeleteMaybe my email went to your spam box so I write again here. I tried to crochet this ornament but didn't manage. The 11 stitches seem to be too many, in the second row I could repeat the pattern more times than only 6 total. Where do I read it wrong?
ReplyDeleteHi Agata, indeed I did not get an email. Basically in Row1 you will have 12 single crochets in the ring and in Row2 you will make 1 double crochet in 1 single crochet of Row1 than you chain 6 and make another double crochet in the 2nd single crochet of Row 1. So for each 6 space you will need to use 2 single crochets of Row1 and this you will have to repeat 5 more times. So normally it should work.
DeleteI hope I made some sense. If you prefer to see this in a schematical drawing please let me know and I will add this to the post.
Hope you will let me know if it would work after this explanation.
Good luck,
Alex.
such a simple thing as adding thread to yarn and it changes the entire look:)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing, I will place it on my blog today. And I will tell the readers that they can find the pattern at your blog.
ReplyDeleteIt was very nice to crochet, and a great idea.
Grtz,
Chris
Thanks for sharing this beautiful pattern and for the permission to share on my blog. I finished posting tonight, and you can find it at http://lifelivedmyway.blogspot.com/2012/12/snowflake-ornament.html
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah, thank you for the lovely blogpost. Hope people loved your present :-). Cheers, Alex.
DeleteThis was such an awesome pattern. I made 2 already and I love the outcome. Beautiful! Mind if I sell them?
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the pattern :) I made a few starts as advent preparations, and I refer to you in my blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://poppygoeshappy.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/the-season-to-be-crafty/
In round 2 are you supposed skip a stitch or still chain 2 because I don't seem to understand the patteen. I have a huge gap left after I finish round 2....
ReplyDeleteI hope you still check this--I'm a beginner but get lost after row 2. What are the "chain spaces" then? I wish you posted some photos of the process or a video :(. If you wouod do that, I would love it! I love this little star!
ReplyDeleteI think I may have the same problem as above, I'm on round three and have done the chain, sc inbetween the previous rows double, done 4 sc chain three but I'm not sure where to put the single crochet. When I put it in the 3rd chain from the hook(I'm assuming into round 2 3rd from the hook) then do the next four in the same chain space as the previous 4sc it doesn't look right.....I'm hoping you clarify where to put that 1sc that goes in between the 2 sets of 4sc....I hope that makes sense the way I said that.
ReplyDeleteWell I played around with it, I did the 4sc and pushed them over the right as far as I could to get to the 3 chain from the hook, put my sc there, then did the other 4sc to get it to look like the picture. (round 3)
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty and look pretty simple to make! Thank you for sharing! :) Lisa
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this. It’s super nice! I’ll make some for our tree this year. By the way, did you block the stars? :) Jenny
ReplyDeleteI'm lost right at the start...how do you go from chaining 5 to then 11 SC in the first ch ring?
ReplyDeleteFrom what I can see, R1 is 12 sc in a ring. (the first ch acts as a sc). For R2, the pattern is dc, dc chain 6, all the way around, and sl st to beginning ch 2. This gives you 6 loops and 6 sets of two dc. R3 is fleshing out the loops with 4sc up, a picot at the top(ch 3, sl st to 3rd chain from hook) and 4 more sc back down. Then just one sc between each pair of dc to connect the loops. This gives 4 sc, a picot and 4 sc in each of 6 loops with a sc between each.
DeleteAfter you chain five, you slip stitch in the first chain you made, so it’s
DeleteMaking a ring. You put the 11 dc in there
Brilliant pattern, so easy to do and fast too.
ReplyDeletePerfect little pattern thank you so much for sharing I've made 20 in an hour🥰
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the star pattern - this was our Christmas card this year! I made at least 30, they work up so quickly. I hadn't realized right away that this was no fancy yarn, just a thread added - so clever! Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteIt’s a little hard to understand, but other than that it’s pretty easy.
ReplyDeletei think there might be a mistake with row 2, it says to do 1 dc in between the ch 6, but I had four left over stitches, so I tried 2 dc in between the ch 6 and that worked fine
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