Five Versions of Crocheted Snowflakes Plus the Russian Version

Crocheted Snowflakes

It’s that time of year! We’re thinking of festive holidays and snowy weekends curled on the sofa with hot chocolate or maybe a glass of wine and we’re looking around the room wondering what is missing in our holiday decor.  Snowflakes. You can never have too many snowflakes.

Many years ago when I worked at a bank on the West Coast I made paper snowflakes during downtime, sometimes others would pitch in creating our little 6-sided unique creations. Just fold the paper correctly and cut away, always being careful not to cut all the way through a folded side. No matter how hard you try, you can never get two exactly the same. That’s because snowflakes are unique!

Then I would hop up on the counters and hang the snowflakes with string and bent paperclips from the grating along the air vents, as well as cover the walls and bullet proof glass between us and our customers.

Sometimes it looked like a blizzard hit! That’s what people would say when they came in. They loved it though. All our customers looked forward to the paper snowflake blizzard for a few weeks out of the year.

I was in the mood to make some more permanent, crocheted snowflakes and came up with 5 different versions of some easy to crochet snowflakes that whip up super fast and easy once you get them down pat. These can be made with any yarn and appropriate sized crochet hook. I did the initial “let’s try this and see what it looks like” snowflakes with worsted weight yarn and then went back and did another one with Aunt Lydia’s metallic 10 crochet thread and a small crochet hook.

You can block them and stiffen them with a commercial stiffener, diluted white glue, or a sugar syrup solution or leave them soft and floppy.

Every snowflake version is unique, though with a pattern each snowflake of a version turns out the same. Try all 5 versions for a variety of unique snowflakes. I came across a video on YouTube in Russian and included the notes I made from that as well. The Russian version was a bit more work even though it’s still only 4 rounds but I included it because it’s a lovely, lovely snowflake and I will be making more.

A few notes:

Ch1 or ch2 at beginning of round is normally ignored in counts and ignored when joining. Slip into the first sc or dc of each round when joining.

After joining, slip stich your way up to the 3ch (or 5ch or 8ch) spaces that form the 6 snowflake points. All the work is done in those spaces that form the snowflake points.

Version 1.0

Ch 5, slip st to join

R1: 12 sc, slip in 1^st sc to join

R2: ch2, 2dc in same st, 3ch, skip a sc, *2 dc in same st, 3ch, skip a st, repeat from * sl st into 1^st dc to join and slip st to reach ch3 space

R3: ch2 (4dc, 3ch, 4dc) in each ch3 space, slip to join

R4: sl st to ch3 space, 2ch, *2dc, ch5, sc, ch 5 repeat from *

R5: *(1dc, 1trc) in same st, 3ch, sc in space, 3ch, sc, 3ch, repeat from *

Version 2.0

Ch5, slip st to join

R1: 12 sc, slip st in 1^st sc to join

R2: 2dc in 1 st, 3ch, skip 1 sc, *2dc in 1 st, ch3, skip 1 sc repeat from * slip st to join

R3: (3dc, 5ch, 3dc, ch1) repeat in each ch3 space

Version 3.0

5 ch, slip st to join

R1: 12 sc

R2: *2dc in 1 st, skip 1sc, ch3 repeat from * slip st into 1^st dc and slip st up to point

R3: 2dc, 1trc, 3ch, 1 trc, 2dc, 1ch in each ch3 space

R4: *2ch, 1 trc, 3ch, slip 1, 3ch, slip 1, 3ch, slip 1, 2ch, slip into base of trc, slip st to next point (ch3 space) and repeat from *

Version 4.0

Form magic loop,

R1: work (2dc, 3ch) x6

Join with slip st, work slip st to 3ch space, including 3ch space

R2: (2 trc, 3ch, 2 trc, 1ch) in each ch3 space, slip st to join

R3: (1dc, 3ch, 1dc, 5ch, 1dc, 3ch, 1dc, 2ch) in each ch3 space

Version 5.0

Ch5, slip st to join

R1: 12sc, slip st in 1^st sc to join

R2: 2ch, 2dc in same st, 5ch, skip sc, *2dc in same st, 5ch, repeat from *

slip st in 1^st dc to join and slip st to get to ch3 space

R3: All in same ch5 space: *2sc, 2ch, 1dc, 2ch, 1sc,3ch, 1trc, 3ch, sc, 2ch, 1dc, 2ch, 2sc repeat from * in every ch5 space

Russian Video Version

Form magic loop

R1: (8ch, 1sc) x6 in magic loop

Slip st in 1^st sc to join and slip up to top of ch8

R2: 2ch, 2dc, 3ch, 3dc, *3dc, 3ch, 3dc* repeat between * 5x for a total of 6 points

R3: 2ch, 1dc, 3ch, 2dc, 5ch, 2dc, 3ch, 2dc repeat 5x

R4: *6sc, 2sc, 2ch, 1dc, 2ch, 1sc, 3ch, 1trc, 3ch, sc, 2ch, 1dc, 2ch, 2 sc, 6sc* x6

(the 6 sc are over ch3 space between points)

Also, for future reference, a crocheted star pattern that I received from a fellow crocheter.

R1: ch5, slip to join

R2: ch2, 1dc, ch2, (2dc, ch2)4x slip to join (there will be five points)
slip st your way to the ch2 space.

R3: ch2, 2dc, ch2, in ch2 space, (3dc, ch2)4x slip st to join
slip st your way to the ch2 space

R4: ch2, 3dc, ch2, in ch2 space, (4dc, ch2) 4x slip st to join
cut thread/yarn and weave in end at the center. Use remaining tail to create a loop for a hanger. You can stiffen these if you want.