Byopia Press 2017 Advent Calendar: Day Four and a crocheted star garland

It’s the fourth day of the Advent Calendar, and time for textile followers. Today’s project is a crocheted star garland.

The image comes from the patinamoon website.

Two winters ago I made a couple of crocheted star garlands based on that pattern.

This one (2/8 cottolin) is still in a friend’s north window:

I kept the other one (4/8 linen) for our Christmas tree, so it comes out once a year.

The patinamoon instructions are simple:

Step 1:   Ch 5, join with a slip st to form a ring.

Step 2:   Ch 3.  14 dc into the ring.  Slip st to 3rd ch of ch3 to form a circle.

Step 3:   *Ch 5.  1 sc in 2nd ch, 1 hdc in next ch, 1 dc in next ch,

1 tr in next ch.Skip 2 dc, slip st in next dc.

*

Repeat from * to * four more times to create five points, ending with

slip st at base of first point.

Fasten off for single star,

or

Ch 20, and repeat from Step 1 for garland.

 

If you want all the stars to stay flat, you can ‘starch’ them. I used starch paste and pinned individual stars flat to dry.  I took a large sheet of cardboard, covered it in plastic, and pinned out the individual stars after soaking them in paste. (Sorry, I don’t have pictures of that.)

If you want a bigger crochet undertaking for the rest of the winter (and if you like stars), you might consider a blanket.

This crochet pattern is called Eastern Jewels and is a variation on the Persian Tiles pattern by Janie Crow.

If that’s too overwhelming, you might want to try a simpler project.

This granny square is constructed of repeating diamonds. The six-point star is created by the use of contrasting colours. The free pattern and instruction video can be found on the Bhooked Crochet website.

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P.S. Total views of this blog for the year passed the 20,000 mark today around 6 p.m. local time. Thanks so much to all my readers for sharing my enthusiasms.  ; ]

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