Crochet Snowflake 1

[yturbeville]

Thanks for your video it was great to be able to make a snowflake.

[freebiegal79]

curious what crochet hooks size you used on red and white snowflakes shown. I cannot hear so want to use the right hook.

[tjw1963]

@freebiegal79 I prefer to make the snowflakes with thread so I use the tiny steel crochet hooks with crochet cotton.  I think the hook in the video may have been a size I/5.5mm

[artistsharon63]

I love your videos & appreciate all of the help that they are. Your snowflakes are beautiful. Bernat put out a free pattern called the "Handicrafter Holidays - Snowflake Dishcloth." It looks beautiful in their picture, but I don't understand their directions. Would you mind looking at it & give me some pointers?

[Hyandme]

What a pretty snowflake! :) My favourite snowflake pattern of all!

[Luveylovey]

omg u could hang these up on ur x-mas tree!!

[tjw1963]

@Luveylovey Yes you can. If you get started now, you can fill up your whole tree with crochet snowflakes.  It did that one year and my tree was beautiful!

[faridaik]

Teresa, may I use the magic loop instead of the initial chain3? Because it's getting too clustered and on top of each other.

Thank u.

[tjw1963]

@faridaik Yes, you can use the magic loop to replace any beginning chain, on almost any project.

[Knittin66]

Can you show how to do a grape like motif on diolies ?THANK YOU

[exrea]

I am just learning to read instructions but found it very difficult until I stumbled upon your videos!

I watched your video for snowflake #1 and wrote the instructions as I went....then I compared them to your written instructions to see the dif in my comprehension of written instructions. I LEARNED A LOT!!! Thank you!

[tjw1963]

You are welcome.

[purplerosez007]

I had to look up the double cluster, triple, and picot because I'd never heard of them before. Thank goodness you have posted vids on all of them! :) thnx mine looks great

[jackiexboy]

This is a good video. However, you shouldn't skip stitches like the peeko stitch. Not everyone knows how to do them and it is good to at least show how to do it once before just skipping it. I still give it five stars because you go slow enough for everyone to follow.

Please don't think I am telling you how to do your videos because you are the one who knows how to do this and we are learning from you. =)

[tjw1963]

Thank you. You must have missed the picot stitch at time code 3:23. I showed all 3 of them.

[pchibc]

How to join them to a line.

[tjw1963]

What do you mean by joining to a line?

[caviegirl9584]

this video no longer loads! i wish it did b/c i love your instructions and i was wanting to try all 4 of them out! :)

[tjw1963]

Try clicking on the HQ, that usually solves the loading problem.

[DuckyPorkchop]

I love your videos! My grandma used to crochet snowflake ornaments every year for each grandchild to put on their tree. With age she is no longer able to do so and I have taken over. I started looking for patterns just before you posted your videos. Thank you so much! They are so easy to follow!

[tjw1963]

You are welcome. I am glad you like the snowflakes. I have worked up three more snowflake patterns that I am going to post in the next couple of weeks.

[dakoman620]

I am following along and your video is hard to follow, you skip many things while showing...you are not making it easy to follow along because you cut your video and splice it together after you do things.. it really makes it harder to do this.

[tjw1963]

My crochet blog has the full set of written instructions and a symbol chart.

[Duochanfan]

Thank you so much, all your videos are brilliant and i've learnt so much from them, i've even gotten better than my nan who showed me how to make a granny square lol. now all i gotta do is make a snowflake, is there a way to do a snowflake that is smaller but still with wool?

[tjw1963]

The patterns can be modified. This one is larger because I made it for thread and demonstrated in yarn. That is why it is larger.

[Dyane4ever]

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

[tjw1963]

Thank you.

[marshachancock]

I MADE ONE! It was a little lopsided but I found myself knowing where the holes are. I'm going to make a dozen more til I get good at this. Thank you so much for spending the time to record this video. Someone gave me one of these when my son was in 2nd grade -- he's graduating college now. I've tried my best to master different patterns since then with no success. Bless you!

[tjw1963]

Congratulations!!! Keep practicing and you will gain an understanding of the stitch placement. Mine are lopsided too until they are blocked. Your snowflake may not be as lopsided as you think.

[marshachancock]

Thanks so much -- watching the video again I figured out. I think I actually am going to be able to do this thanks to you. I finally figured out the problem I have with these patterns (I've made afghans and quite a few other things easily but just can't get the snowflakes) is not the stitch but WHICH hole to do it in. I just tore one out because the first picot was not all in the same hole -- the 2nd 1 was ok then the 4th one somehow I got the thread flipped. Trying a larger needle!

[tjw1963]

This is why I prefer to make the tutorials in yarn so it is larger and hopefully you can see what is going on. They are a whole lot prettier in thread.

[marshachancock]

I apologize if this got posted 2x. I'm so excited -- I've been trying to make a snowflake ANY SNOWFLAKE for years. I finished round one and I have a little wheel with 6 spokes.  So far so good. The I start the picots -- I can't find the chain 6 that I'm supposed to be slipping into.

[tjw1963]

The chain 6 is the chains between the cluster of stitches.

[marshachancock]

I am so determined to master this! I've been trying to crochet a snowflake, ANY SNOWFLAKE for years. I finished round one. When I get to the picots I get lost. It's usually the simple stuff that gets me i.e. it says slipstich to chain 6. Where is the chain 6? I have a nice little "wheel" with six spokes but looking back see no 'chain 6"

[89875612]

hey. Ireally love your videos. The first ones were easy for me to understant, but now it's taking to complicated. i'm portuguese and i'm strugling not only with the english (sometimes you speak to fast for me to understand :) ) but also with the crochet because i'm a beginner. Anyway, I can't see where you do the second double crochet and the others next. But i guess i will figure it out.

[tjw1963]

Thank you, I am sorry about that. Which round are you talking about? I do have the written instructions posted on my crochet blog with a picture diagram that will help you see exactly where to place the stitches.

[89875612]

Ya, I know, and I went there, but I made it without that. And it's very beautifull. Thanks anyway. I will waiting for the next one.

[tjw1963]

I am glad you got it figured out.

[drumrocker0626]

Hiya, i'm a beginner at crocheting so i'm still confused about how to make the double cluster. When we take one string and wrap it around the crochet tool, where inside the "cluster or yarn" do we put it through? Thanks for the vid tho!

[tjw1963]

You insert the hook through the very center of the loop, then you pull it through and do the second part of the stitch.

[drumrocker0626]

Thanks. I"ll just wait till i'm more comfortable with the crocheting stuff.

[neencrochet]

this looks so exciting to make! cant wait to get started, thank you

[tjw1963]

You are welcome. :)

[avgail]

they're pretty...i'd love to make more of them...:D

[tjw1963]

Thank you. :)

[dlove0406]

awesome!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!

[tjw1963]

You are welcome. :)

[raineylee]

Great snowflake! It's nice for you to show step by step and slow motion. I've always wanted to learn crochet snowflake ornaments for my tree. This year I want my family to make homemade ornaments and be creative from using yarn, beads, glitter etc.. PS I'm also learning your crochet solid heart and triangle star for my tree. Thanks!

[tjw1963]

Thank you. I am working on two more snowflakes right now. Hopefully I will have both of them up complete in the next week.

[Boredism01]

i like this one...ps i am a huge fan

[tjw1963]

Thank you. :)

[hutt5]

I've always been a little leary about trying crochet with thread, but this is one I'm gonna try! Thanks!

[tjw1963]

You are welcome. :)

[Denise46000]

Very nice!! thank you..

[tjw1963]

You are welcome. :)