Easy Crochet Snowflake Ornaments!! How to Tutorial

Hey guys and welcome back to Coutangrafts. Today I'm going to show you how to make this darling crocheted snowflake ornament. These little ornaments are great to give in Christmas cards when you send them out because they are nice and flat. They're great to add on to packages when you wrap them just as a little, you know, extra extra gift on top or you can just hang them on your own Christmas tree. These are super quick to whip up. There are only three rounds to this. I know it looks really complicated. It's really not. Three rounds, that's all there is to it. Now these that I crocheted, I crocheted with a size 10 thread which is gray with a metallic thread running through it. That metallic thread kind of gets hung up on your hook sometimes so you've got to be patient with it, but the finished result is kind of... I like the finished little sparkles that it adds onto the snowflake. This is just gray. You can use a solid color if you want to or any color that you want and I used a size 7 steel crochet hook for that. So for this tutorial I am not going to crochet this in size 10 thread with a 7 steel hook. You're just not going to be able to see what I'm doing. So I'm going to use worsted weight yarn here and a size J hook so you can see what I'm doing. Anyway, I'm going to start out with a magic loop. I'm going to take my loose end here and I'm going to wrap it around my middle finger twice and set up my hand to work however you hold your yarn. Now I'm going to put my hook into those first two loops on my finger. I'm going to pull a loop through just like that and that's going to secure those two loops on my finger. Now to start out I'm going to chain three, two, and three. This is going to act as my first double crochet. There's going to be a total of six double crochets in this magic loop but there's a series of stitches between each one of them. So moving on to that I'm going to chain two and then I'm going to chain three, two, three, slip stitch in the third chain from my hook which is going to be one, two, three, and this is going to form a picot. Just slip stitch right in there, chain two, and now a double crochet into my magic loop which is down here. I slid this off my finger because it's easier to work for me when it's not on my finger. So there you go there's your double crochet. Now to continue on all you're going to do is chain two, form a picot which is chain three, and slip stitch into the third chain from my hook to form that picot, chain two, double crochet into that magic loop. And I'm going to do this all the way around until I have six double crochets in this loop including this beginning chain three. So chain two, two, three to form a picot, chain two more, double crochet into the magic loop, two, chain three to form the picot, chain two, and now I need to join to my first chain three from my magic circle which will be the final double crochet. So one chain, two chain, three chain. This is the chain that you want to join into, slip stitch that right there, pull out your loop like that. This is what your center will look like. Now I'm going to close up this magic uh magic loop here before I move on so it is nice and secure. All you want to do is pull this tight as best you can, get the cat hair off of your yarn since your cat has decided to make your yarn stash into a bed, and then close that up nice and tight just like that. Okay now we're going to go on to round two. Round two is the easiest out of all of them. I'm going to start out with a chain three which is going to count as our first double crochet and you want to put six chains between each one. Three, four, five, six, and you want to double crochet in the top of the next double crochet from the previous round which is going to be right there. Double crochet in there, chain six, one, two, three, four, five, six, double crochet in the next double crochet from the previous round which is going to be right there. And you're going to do this all the way around. Three, four, sorry, five, six, went a little fast there, double crochet in the double crochet from the previous round, and final one, two, three, four, five, six, and now you want to join in the third chain from the beginning. One, two, three, because those first three chains are the double crochet, so you just want to slip stitch right in there. And that is the finish of round two. And now we can start working on the little arms of our snowflake. So for the arms of our snowflake here, what you're going to do is we've just joined that there. You're going to slip stitch or chain one, sorry, and in each one of these little chain six spaces you're going to single crochet four times. There's one, two, three, four. Now you're going to do a picot which is a chain three, join it in the third chain from the top or from your hook, slip stitch that, and now you're going to do four more single crochets. So one, two, three, four. Now what you want to do is single crochet in the top of the double crochet from the previous round. You're going to crochet single crochet right in there. Now it's just a series of chains and joins and with a few picots thrown in. You want to pay attention here and listen and watch as to how I do the chains. There's a lot of forward counting, backward counting, in between counting, and it's going to get kind of confusing. I have the print instructions down below in the description box and that will, it lays it out exactly how you're supposed to do this. But pay attention closely, closefully, carefully, closely, and just count the stitches with me and you won't have a problem, or you shouldn't have a problem. So you're going to start out with a chain nine. So one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And I'm doing this slowly so you can crochet along with me. Now you want to count back seven and slip stitch in the seventh chain from your hook. So we're going to go back one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and I'm going to slip stitch in the seventh stitch right there. Now you're going to chain seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and you're going to slip stitch in the fifth chain from your hook. One, two, three, four, fifth chain from your hook. Slip stitch. Now you're going to chain five. One, two, three, four, five, and you're going to slip stitch in the third chain from your hook. So count back one, two, three, make a slip stitch. Now you're going to chain four. One, two, three, four. You're going to slip stitch in the third chain from the hook again. One, two, three, slip stitch right there. You're also going to slip stitch in the next slip or next chain, which was the fourth chain from your hook. Slip stitch right in there. Now you want to do a chain three. One, two, three, slip stitch in the third chain from the hook. So one, two, three, slip stitch right there. Now what you want to do is slip stitch into the chain that you slip stitch your first chain three picot in. So if you stretch out your work here, you're going to see a picot, a picot, a picot, a chain five picot, and your chain seven picot. This third chain three picot from your hook right here, you will see a loop right there. That's what you want to slip stitch into, just like that. So it closes these three chain three picots off. Now you're going to slip stitch in the next two chains, which is the chain space between your first chain three picot and your chain five picot. And if you stretch this out, you can see there's a chain, there's a chain. You want to slip stitch into each one of these chains. So there is the first one. Your second one is right here. Slip stitch into that one. Now you want to make a chain five picot. One, two, three, four, five, and slip stitch in the fifth chain from your hook, which is one, two, three, four, five. Slip stitch right there. And you also want to slip stitch in the joining chain of your previous chain five picot, which if you pull this apart, you'll see it is right there. Join that. And now you're going to slip stitch in the next two chains, which is going to be right here and right there. So you're going to slip stitch in that first chain. Here's your next chain. And slip stitch in there. Now you're going to make a chain seven picot. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Slip stitch in the seventh loop from your hook. So go back one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Join in there. And now you're going to join in the chain that your previous chain seven picot was in, which if you pull this back, it's going to be right there. Join there. And now you're going to slip stitch in the next two chains. So here's the first one. One and two. And that is your finished arm of the first of six of your finished arms of your snowflake. And now you can work your single crochets and picot in the next chain six space. And you want to do that all the way around. So I will put a time stamp down below in the description box where it shows you how I did the first one, so you can refer back to that and watch that closely. It's just a matter of counting and putting in your, having the correct number of chains and putting in your slip stitches at the correct point. So I'm going to go ahead and get this finished up and then I'll get to join this all together. So I've got all six fingers finished up and now to join this, you want to join this to the first single crochet in that chain six space right there. So just go ahead and join right in the top of there with a slip stitch. Go ahead and pull your thread through. And this will be, it looks like a mess right now, but this will be your finished snowflake right here. Let me get the demonstration one out of the way. And this is what the thread one will look like. And to do this tutorial, because you would not be able to see anything that I did. So from this, you want to go ahead and weave in your ends, however you choose to weave in your ends. And then you want to go ahead and pin your snowflake down to a piece of wax paper or parchment paper. And you want to starch that. Use, there's starches available on the market that you can use specifically for this, or you can use a mixture of Elmer's Glow in Water. There's plenty of tutorials online about how to starch snowflakes and crochet items, so I won't show you how to do that here. But just go ahead and pin it out. And you want to make sure and pin each point and picot on your snowflake so they stand out. You just want to do it just like I show you here in the picture. And then when you are done, you will have a snowflake that looks like this. And it is nice and firm. You can pick it up and, you know, it's not going to flop over anything, anything like that. So it is nice and starched. I went ahead and added a piece of filament to the top of one of our little fingers here. So we had a hanger. You don't have to do that if you don't want to. You could use a ribbon if you wanted to. But there you go. That is how you make this particular snowflake, crocheted snowflake ornament. I hope you guys enjoy. I hope I didn't go too fast. If you have problems catching up or whatever, go ahead and use that pause button. There's also, if you click on the cog button, you can slow the video down up to quarter speed. So it'll slow it down a lot if you need help figuring out what I'm doing. Written instructions will be down below in the description box. But there you go. Hope you guys enjoy. Thanks so much for watching and we will see you next time.