Simple Star Ornament
① Dennis Marquez This is a tutorial to make a pointy star ornament. Make one for the star in your life, use multiple for Christmas Decorations. Spice them up with some buttons, beads, or whatever tickles your fancy! Let your creativeness take flight!
What do you need?
Yarn (Preferably Cotton) Hook (Hooksize to match your yarn choice) Darning Needle A happy smile on your face
Abbreviations used (American):
Ch: Chain TR: Triple Crochet DC: Double Crochet SI st: Slip Stitch HDC: Half Double Crochet SC: Single Crochet
How to make one?
Start by making a magic loop (Check youtube or google for tutorials on this!) Row 1: Ch 3, 2 DC into magic loop, Ch 1. \*3 DC, Ch 1\* for a total of 4 times. Sl st into 3rd chain of first Ch 3. You should have 5 clusters of 3 DC with a Ch 1 in between. Row 2: \*Ch 5, Sc into 2nd chain from hook, HDC into 3rd chain from hook, DC into 4th chain from hook, TR into 5th chain from hook. Sl stitch into next Ch 1 space.\* Repeat 4 more times. Bind off by making one more chain, cutting the yarn leaving a 3" tail, and pulling the loop out and tighten the chain. You did it! Your base' star is done! Now you might be happy enough with your star to leave it like this, or you might want to go a little more 'advanced' and add a border around it! This might be a little bit fidgety but if you've come this far, you should not have too many problems adding a couple of stitches around it!
Border
Row 1: Make a knot with the new color and the bind off tail as close to the bind off as possible. Put your hook through the backloop of the slip stitch to the left of your knot, this might be a bit tricky to find, but the exact location of where you put your hook is not that crucial. Pull your new color through this backloop. Now you're at the uphill bit of the point. You're going to slip stitch along the base of the chain 5 from Row 2. You should have made 5 slip stitches now. Chain 1 and slipstitch downhill through the backloops of the Sc, HDC, DC and TR. You've now reached the valley between the points. Make another slip stitch through the back of the slip stitch that's there. Now you just repeat this all the way around! You'll find that when you make more stars, the border goes easier and easier. When you get to the end, don't slip stitch into the first slip stitch, but cut your yarn leaving a 3" tail. Thread your darning needle with this tail and go underneath both strands of the first slip stitch from front to back. Now put your needle through the center of the last slip stitch you made to create an invisible join! Sew in all ends and you're DoNE!
