Winter Wreath - Mini Snowflakes

As ever, as a project progresses, you observe what you have created, and sometimes decide to do things a different way.  And so it is with the snowflake embellishments for these wreaths.

A small collection of embellishments is forming - hellebores and mistletoe from Lesley Stansfields 100 flowers to knit and crochet, and holly leaves following Attic 24 instructions.  But snowflakes made with the same DK brand yarn and a 3.75mm hook were just completely out of scale.

So it was back to rummaging the stash for alternatives.  The photo below shows my attempts with the same pattern.  I’m going to use the thread version for this project.

Impact of size using different weight yarns and hooks

If you want to join me in this project, the patterns I’ve used for the 3 snowflakes follow below (US terminology):

For DK weight use 3.5mm hook, for 4 ply use a 2.75mm, but I’ve ended up using Coats crochet 5 thread with a 1.5mm hook.

See patterns below

Snowflake 1

Into magic circle, ch 4 (counts as dc plus ch 1), [dc, ch 1] 5 times, sl st into 3rd ch of starting ch 4 to join - 6 dc, 6 ch 1 sp in total.  Pull magic circle tight.

Rnd 2 - sl into ch-sp, ch 2 (counts as hdc), [picot, hdc in same ch-sp, hdc in next ch-sp] 5 times, picot, hdc in same ch-sp, sl st into 2nd ch of starting ch to join - 12 hdc, 6 picot total.  Fasten off. 

Snowflake 2

Into magic circle, ch 4 (counts as dc plus ch 1), [dc, ch 1] 5 times, sl st into 3rd ch of starting ch 4 to join - 6 dc, 6 ch 1 sp in total.  Pull magic circle tight.

Rnd 2 - ch 2 (counts as hdc), *picot 3 times (ch 3, sl st into first ch), sl st into top of hdc, ch 2, hdc in next dc*, repeat from * to * 4 more times, picot 3 times (ch 3, sl st into first ch), sl st into top of hdc, ch 2, sl st join to 2nd st of starting ch - 18 picot, 6 ch-2 spaces, 6 hdc. Fasten off.

Snowflake 3

Setup - ch 4 and join in a ring with a sl st.

Rnd 1 - ch 1 (does not count as a st), 6 sc into the ring.

Rnd 2 - ch 2 (counts as hdc), *ch 2, hdc in next st*, repeat from * to * 4 more times, ch 2, sl st join to 2nd st of starting chain.

Rnd 3 - ch 3 (counts as dc), dc in same st as join, *ch 2, 2 dc in same st, 2 dc in next st*, repeat from * to * 4 more times, ch 2, 2 dc in same st, sl st to join to 3rd st of starting ch - 24 dc, 6 ch-2 spaces. Fasten off.