Learning Old Fashioned Skills this Holiday Season

Looking for a fun and easy way to learn old fashioned skills this holiday season? Look no further than our crochet granny star tutorial! Whether you're new to crochet or have been practicing your craft for years, this DIY Christmas ornament is the perfect way to bring a little bit of rustic charm to your home. So why wait? Let's dig right in.

The Written Pattern

1: ch5, sl st to form loop

2: (ch2, 2dc, ch3), (3dc, ch3) x4, sl st to close

3: sl st across to ch3 space, 3dc, ch3, 3dc, ch1, 3dc, ch3, 3dc, ch1 in ch3 sp around, sl st. to join, sl st to corner space.

4. Cut the yarn with a 3 inch tail, pull the tail through your last loop and pull tight. Weave/sew tail into the design. 5. Thread some small ribbon or twine through the top of the design for hanging on the tree.

How to Crochet a Granny Star | Making the Magic Circle

So we're going to start off making a slip knot with our yarn, I'm using a DK weight 50 gram yarn, and then I'm using a four millimeter crochet hook. So super simple, super basic, we're going to make five chain stitches here. And then it we are going to insert the crochet hook to the very first chain stitch, and we're going to do a slip stitch through.

How to Crochet Row 1 of the Granny Star

Once we've done that, we're gonna find the big space, it makes kind of a magic loop and we're going to chain three. And then we will do a double crochet into the loop. When beginning sometimes it's easy to mistake a one of those chain stitches for the loop, you're just going to look for the bigger space that you can kind of stretch apart there. So we chained three, and now we're just going to do two double crochets.

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So now we are going to chain three. So we did the first chain three, two double crochets. Now we're chaining three. And after we chain three, we are going to do three double crochets into the magic circle. And then we are going to chain three again, and then three double crochets you're gonna repeat that process of three chains, and then three double crochets, you're gonna repeat that four times until you have five sets of double crochets total. You're going to chain three, and then slip stitch into that kind of first chain stitch up at the top of your work to join what you just did together. You just insert your needle and pull the yarn through both of your stitches. This is how we're going to form our star pattern.

Why Winter is the Best Time to Learn Old Fashioned Skills like Crochet

One of the things that I love about the holiday season is the chance to to slow down and it's cold outside and gross. You just don't want to be spending a whole lot of time outdoors. It's not that spring, warm summer, fall air that just gets you feeling the edge to get outside and hike and walk around. I don't feel that as much in winter, I don't know about you. So I love to do as many handmade homemade products as I can throughout the winter. And then both the fun and decorative like all of the patterns and ornaments and things like that I'm going to show you over the next few weeks, leading up to Christmas. And also just the things that will be helpful to have in the warmer months when I have less time to crochet and things like that.

Crocheting a Granny Star | Row 2

So now we have five of those sets of double crochets. In a normal granny square, you would change three, we're not going to do that. Instead, you're going to continue to slip stitch, you're going to slip stitch through across the top of those double crochets until you hit a space that you had made when you did the chain threes. So now we're in a space and you're going to go straight into a double crochet. And you're going to do three double crochets. After you've done three double crochets you're going to chain three again and then you'll do three more double crochets then chain one. So once you chain one here then you're going to repeat the process of slip stitching across the top of those other double crochet sets until you're in another space. And you'll repeat the process, three double crochets, chain three, three double crochets, chain one slip stitch across, until you get to the very end where you'll be able to join it.

So I'm just continuing to go around and repeat that same process here quickly. The great thing about this project is it is so simple, so easy. And you're just basically doing a granny square. At the end of this you just slip knot across to the corner where you'll join. And we'll weave through the yarn strings, and then we'll add a little piece of ribbon through the top to hang it.

So once you do that, you just snip off the end of the yarn, and you're going to find it off. So what you do is you just pull it through the crochet hook like a chain stitch, and then you pull it tight, super easy. And then we're just going to weave that tail through your crochet a little bit so that it prevents it from unraveling. You don't have to weave it through to too much because the knot does hold it. But then once you've woven it through a few times, you can just cut it off and you're good to go.

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