I started this project a year ago in November. I love Christmas and I usually start thinking about it during November. Last year it occurred to me that in my family we have used the same Christmas tree decorations for over 20 years. I felt that change would be good and got really excited about crocheting snowflakes. I started in November and continued crocheting until Christmas so that I would have enough of snowflakes to fill the tree. I didn’t get the white Christmas I wanted but at least there were snowflakes in our living room. I really liked the simplicity of the Christmas tree with the white snowflakes and electric candles. Now I’m wondering if should I stick with just the snowflakes or add something else as well? I have a few ideas floating around.
I found the process of crocheting these snowflakes really therapeutic. As a technique I actually prefer crocheting to hand knitting because of the freedom it gives you. I found the patterns online, most of them from this website. I started out with this very informative and easy tutorial on Youtube, so I could get myself acquainted with the English crocheting vocabulary and follow the patterns. I used white cotton yarn and stiffened the snowflakes with a water and glue mix.
Snowflake for Marikamum pattern.
Crochet snowflake tutorial on Youtube.
Irish hearts snowflake pattern (on the right).
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The snowflakes are lovely. We never lack snow here at Christmas, last year it was up to my waist.
Oh my, that’s quite a lot of snow! I was very disappointed that we didn’t have snow in southern Finland last year, but I have hope for this year. There has already been quite a lot of snow in northern Finland and a week ago it snowed a tiny bit also in Helsinki. And thank you 🙂 these snowflakes were a lot of fun to make.
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