FREE PATTERN: Mini Snowflake

Mini Snowflake Pattern

It’s no secret that I love snowflakes, I like to design some every year. This tiny snowflake can be used as a hanging decoration, in a garland, in present wrapping, scattered over the table for decoration at your festive dinner or as a decoration anywhere at Christmas! It was designed for my local knitgroup’s Macmillan coffee morning – we had a sale of handcrafted items, patterns and recipes and I didn’t need any persuading to make some snowflakes and print out a few patterns to help with the fundraising. – Valerie Bracegirdle

If you like it then please consider donating to Macmillan – you can find information on how to do so here: www.macmillan.org.uk

MATERIALS

• Any yarn you like provided you use a suitable hook size.

• Sample used: Sublime Egyptian Cotton DK, 100% cotton; 105m/115yd per 50g ball

• 3.50mm crochet hook
• Tapestry needle

SIZE

Approx. 8cm across after blocking.

PATTERN STARTS

Start with a magic ring

Rnd 1: 1ch (does not count as a st), 6dc into ring, pull ring gently, ss to 1^st dc, pull ring tight. 6 sts

Rnd 2: 1ch (does not count as a st), (1dc, 3ch) in each st around, join to 1^st dc with a sl st. 6 3ch-sps

Rnd 3: 1ch (does not count as a st), (1dc, 1htr, 3picot, 1htr, 1dc) in each 3ch-sp around, join to 1^st dc with a sl st. Break yarn and fasten off.

For a hanging loop, on the last round replace one of the centre picots with (15ch, ss in 15^th ch from hook).

CHART

Magic ring, rounds 1 and 3 in black. Round 2 in blue.

DESIGNER BIO:

Valerie describes herself as an ‘accidental designer’ because she didn’t set off to become a designer, it just happened somewhere along the path of enjoying crochet and knitting. Find her on Ravelry as vbracegirdle, read her blog www.agrarianartisan.com , find her on Facebook as Agrarian Artisan and follow her on Twitter @AgrarianArtisan.