In the Christmassy spirit of Advent, today I have written up a little pattern to share with you, using the very lovely Paintbox Yarns Simply DK. It is a very quick and simple pattern but includes a spike stitch and both working in the round and straight so I will knock up some accompanying tutorials for you as soon as I can. I will also publish a PDF version on Lovecrochet.com very soon.
I hope you enjoy making it, please do share your pictures of your own stars, can't wait to see which palette you choose!
Materials
Paintbox
Yarns Simply DK 100% acrylic, 100g/276m/302yds
Yarn A: Neon
Pink, 156 x 1 ball
Yarn B: Buttercup
Yellow, 122, x 1 ball
Yarn C: Rich
Mauve, 144 x 1 ball
Yarn D: Rose
Red, 113 x 1 ball
Yarn E: Washed
Teal, 132 x 1 ball
Yarn F: Lime
Green, 128 x 1 ball
4mm
hook
Yarn
needle
Toy
Stuffing.
Tension
Exact
tension is not essential.
Pattern
Notes
Centre of the star is worked in the round.
Points of the star are worked one by one on Round 6, but are worked back and
forth, breaking the yarn after every point and rejoining the yarn to Round 5 to
begin the next point.
Special
Stitches
Cluster
(cl): [yoh, insert in st, draw lp through] twice, 5 lps on hook, yoh and draw
through all 5lps.
Method
Star (make two)
With
4mm hook and Yarn A make an adjustable ring.
Rnd
1: 6dc in adjustable ring, pull tightly to close ring,
sl st to first dc to close rnd – 6dc.
Fasten off Yarn A, join Yarn B to any st around
with a sl st.
Rnd 2: 2ch, yoh, insert hook in
same st, draw lp through, yoh and draw through all lps on hook, 1ch, (cl, 1ch)
in each rem dc around, join rnd with sl st – 6 cl and 6 ch-sps.
Fasten off Yarn B, join Yarn C to any 1ch-sp around
with a sl st.
Rnd 3: 2ch (counts as 1htr), 2htr
in same ch-sp, 1ch, (3htr, 1ch) in each rem ch-sp around – 18htr, 6ch-sps.
Fasten off Yarn C, join Yarn D to first htr of any
3htr group with a sl st.
Rnd 4: 1dc in same st and in each
of next 2 htr, insert hook down into cl from Row 2, yoh, draw loop through st
and up to the height of current rnd, yoh and draw through 2lps on hook, spike
made, *1dc in each of next 3 htr, spike stitch; rep from * 5 times in total,
join rnd with sl st – 18dc and 6 spike sts.
Fasten off Yarn D, join Yarn E to any st around
with a sl st.
Rnd
5: 1dc in
each st around – 24dc.
Fasten off Yarn E, join Yarn F to any st around
with a sl st.
Round 6 will be making the star
points one by one as follows:
Star point:
Row
1: 1dc in this and each of next 4 sts, turn – 5dc.
Row 2: 1ch (does not count as st),
1dc in each st across – 5dc.
Row 3: 1ch (does not count as st),
dc2tog, 1dc, dc2tog – 3dc.
Row 4: 1ch (does not count as st),
1dc in each st across – 3dc.
Row 5: 1ch (does not count as st),
dc3tog – 3dc.
Fasten
off yarn.
With
RSF, rejoin yarn to same st of Rnd 5 that the last dc of Point One’s Row 1 is
worked into, so this stitch of Rnd 5 will be worked into twice. Now work next
point and each following point from Row 1 in the same way as the last, starting
each following point in the last dc of the previous point’s Row 1.
6
points in total.
Finishing
Block
pieces lightly to shape. Place two star pieces together with wrong sides
facing.
Rejoin
Yarn F to the top of any point and work evenly around the whole star in dc,
working each dc through both layers of the star to join them. Before you reach
the end of the round, stuff the star lightly to desired shape, then complete
the round and join with a sl st to the first dc. Make 15ch, then sl st back
down into bottom of the chain to make a hanging loop.
Hang
on your tree and admire!
