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60 Crocheted Snowflakes
60 Crocheted Snowflakes
60 Crocheted Snowflakes
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Few objects evoke the spirit of Christmas and a holiday atmosphere more effectively than light and airy snowflakes. Now, with this unusually extensive and comprehensive collection of patterns, crocheters can add exquisitely shaped "snow gems" to their treasure chest of festive ornaments.
Delicate snowflake patterns, infinite in form and amazingly symmetrical, are among the most popular designs with today's needleworkers. The 60 motifs in this collection, based on photographs of actual snowflakes from the book Snow Crystals by W. A. Bentley and W. L. J. Humphreys, include simple shapes for beginners, as well as intricate and challenging motifs for the more advanced. Eye-catching patterns include star-shaped wheels, exotic flower-like webs, six-side jewels of intricately worked threads, and a kaleidoscope of lacy arms and elaborate fern-like compositions.
Ideal for decorating Christmas trees, windows, and packages, or for framing, the snowflake patterns included here come with complete directions and finely detailed illustrations; and unlike nature's fragile, short-lived crystals, these inexpensive ornaments will be a joy to behold for years to come.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 8, 2012
ISBN9780486139838
60 Crocheted Snowflakes

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    60 Crocheted Snowflakes - Barbara Christopher

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    Made in the United States

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    Text: 50% Cover: 10%

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    At Dover Publications we’re committed to producing books in an earth-friendly manner and to helping our customers make greener choices.

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    And printing on recycled paper helps minimize our consumption of trees, water and fossil fuels. The text of 60 Crocheted Snowflakes was printed on paper made with 50% post-consumer waste, and the cover was printed on paper made with 10% post-consumer waste. According to Environmental Defense’s Paper Calculator, by using this innovative paper instead of conventional papers, we achieved the following environmental benefits:

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    to M.C. Waldrep,

    the editor every artist looks for,

    but very few are fortunate

    enough to find.

    Copyright Copyright © 1987 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Christopher, Barbara

    60 crocheted snowflakes

    p. cm.

    9780486139838

    ISBN-10: 0-486-25393-7

    1. Crocheting—Patterns. 2. Christmas Decorations. 3. Snow crystals.

    I. Title. II. Title: Sixty crocheted snowflakes.

    TT825.C425 1987

    746.43’4041

    87-6715

    Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

    25393712

    www.doverpublications.com

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Dedication

    Copyright Page

    INTRODUCTION

    INTRODUCTION

    Crocheted snowflakes are a longtime favorite of mine. The almost infinite variety of possible designs makes them fun to crochet, and their delicate, lacy beauty makes them effective as Christmas tree ornaments, package tie-ons or lightcatchers. For inspiration for my snowflakes, I turned to Snow Crystals by W. A. Bentley and W. J. Humphreys (Dover 0-486-20287-9). This fascinating book has photographs of over 2000 actual snow crystals. For this book, I have selected sixty of these crystals and interpreted them as closely as possible in crochet.

    Despite the seeming intricacy of many of the designs, the snowflakes are surprisingly simple and quick to make. Almost all can be crocheted in an hour or less and none of them takes more than four rounds of crochet. The abbreviations used in the instructions are listed below.

    The snowflakes shown were all made using DMC Cebelia¹ cotton crochet thread. In order to have as wide a variety of sizes as possible, I used three different weights of this thread—sizes 10, 20 and 30. The size hook called for in each instruction is the size I used to make the snowflake. Since everyone crochets a little differently, you may find you need a larger or smaller hook to get the size shown. You may also decide that you want to make your snowflake larger or smaller. It is very easy to do this by simply changing the size of the thread and the hook you use. Just remember that the snowflake will look better if it is crocheted tightly.

    In order to give the snowflakes extra sparkle, I added Balger’s Metallic Blending Filament, White #100.² This filament is so fine that it will not change the size of the snowflake, yet it adds a hint of glitter. To use it, hold a strand of the blending filament together with the crochet thread and work with them as if they were a single thread.

    After your snowflake is crocheted, it must be blocked and starched. If it has become

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