Crochet star pattern — four pieces, 30 rounds written out
This is a free crochet star pattern for a star 8 cm point to point, worked on a 4.0 mm (G-6) hook in four colours, about an hour and a half's work. The star is in where the stitches go rather than how many there are: rounds 4 to 7 of each half put two increases either side of the same five tip stitches and one decrease in the middle of each of the five valleys, carrying the disc from 20 stitches to 40 while it is pulled into five lobes. The two halves are then held face to face and joined with a cream round worked through both outer edges — twice, because the valleys still wave after one pass. All 30 rounds are written out below across four pieces, each carrying the stitch count it ends on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 30 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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- 4 render matches the pattern — no image has been compared against its own prompt, so a render showing a piece the rounds do not make would not be caught here. Nothing has counted how many do.
- 6a recognisability — provenance.recognisability is empty in every pattern, so there is no feature list to check the parts against.
Why it is rated Medium
Medium for placement rather than count. The five tips are marked on round 3 and carried up, because every round after it takes both its increases and its decrease from those same positions.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — four colours, all weight 4
1 skein, or scraps of about 25 mWorsted / aran acrylic, weight 4
scraps, about 8 mWorsted / aran acrylic, weight 4
scraps, about 6 mWorsted / aran acrylic, weight 4
scraps, about 1 mWorsted / aran acrylic, weight 4
Tools
3 you probably own, 1 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers — five, one for each point
You need to buy
Polyester stuffing (a small handful, about 5 g)
Optional
A small metal ring to hang it from
Spray starch, if you want the five points stiff rather than soft
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Tight enough that the stuffing does not peek between stitches. A looser hand gives a bigger, softer star rather than a wrong one.
Finished size
~8 cm point to point
The shape comes from where the stitches go, not from the colours, so any four scraps work. Stuff lightly through the last point before it closes — a flat star reads as a star, a fat one as a cushion.
How to make the star, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US5 sc in mrUK5 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The star halves
Two the same, worked flat from a ring of five. Every round adds two…7 RNDS
starts in gold· magic ring· Piece 1 of 4
First six rounds[5] [10] [20] [25] [30] [35]
1[5]
2[10]
3[20]
4[25]
5[30]
6[35]
7[40]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneLay them face to face and line the points up before anything else, five against five, with the silver rounds meeting all the way round.
2
02Right star half
— the same 7 rounds again, worked from piece 017 RNDS
starts in gold· magic ring· Piece 2 of 4· mirrors the star halves
First six rounds[5] [10] [20] [25] [30] [35]
1[5]
2[10]
3[20]
4[25]
5[30]
6[35]
7[40]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
3
03The seam
Cream stitches worked through both outer edges at once, holding the…2 RNDS
starts in cream· picked up· Piece 3 of 4
First two rounds[40] [40]
1[40]
2[40]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneThe second pass is what settles the valleys. After one pass they wave; after two they sit.
4
04The cord
A blue cord from the top point, counted here as fourteen single…14 RNDS
starts in skyBlue· picked up· Piece 4 of 4
First six rounds[1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1]
1[1]
2[1]
3[1]
4[1]
5[1]
6[1]
7[1]
8[1]
9[1]
10[1]
11[1]
12[1]
13[1]
14[1]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loop onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneHold the star up by it and see whether it hangs level. The loop can move a stitch either way to correct a tilt.
You are here
Four pieces from three lists. One list — the star halves — is written once and worked twice, identical round for round; the grey bars are piece length, all drawn to the same scale.30 ROUNDS IN ALL
Eight notes on the star
Read themClose
01Worked in a continuous spiral — nothing to join and nothing to turn.
02The star lives in where the stitches go, not in how many of them there are. Each round places its two increases either side of the same five tip stitches, and its decrease in the middle of each of the five valleys. Mark the five tips on round 3 and move the markers up as you go, and the points build themselves.
03Round 7 of each half is worked in back loops only; that ridge is what lets the rim turn in toward the other half instead of standing flat, and it frames the silver round on each face.
04The two halves are held face to face and the cream round is worked through both outer edges at once. Line the five points up first — a half-point of drift shows.
05The second cream round goes over the seam the same way round as the first. It is what settles the valleys, which wave a little after one pass.
06Stuff lightly through the last point before it closes. A flat star reads as a star; a fat one reads as a cushion.
07The hanging cord is a chain of 14 in real yarn, fastened back into the top point to make a loop. The app counts it as fourteen single stitches because a chain has no round of its own.
08An original Crochet Genie design.
Four questions this pattern answers
Not questions anybody asked. Each one is written from this pattern's own record, and every answer is read off the fields it names.
How many pieces make up the star?
How much yarn will the star take?
What hook will the star need, and what is the finished size?
How long will the star take to crochet?
A round that will not add up?
Tell us the piece and the round number — the stepper already knows where you are.There is nowhere to send one yet.
Put the laptop down mid-round
The iPhone app keeps your place — piece of 4, round of — and hands it back where you left it.
