Winter Snowflake Afghan Free Crochet Pattern
Winter Snowflake Afghan – Free Crochet Pattern
Colder days are coming, so I created the Winter Snowflake Afghan to keep you nice and toasty. Besides being a practical winter project, it’s also a decorative blanket you can use to decorate your sofa and bed.
The blanket is made of gorgeous snowflake squares sewn together with the invisible seam technique. Then I added a contrasting red and white blanket border.
You can easily make the blanket larger by adding more snowflake squares. And if you prefer the snowflakes further apart from one another, you can make the squares bigger than the ones I made.
I designed the blanket using chunky (bulky #5) yarn, so it works up quickly. Feel free to change the suggested colors according to your personal preference.
Scroll down for the step-by-step pattern.
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Turn This Blanket Into A 2in1 Reindeer Hooded Blanket
I used this pattern to create a cute 2in1 Reindeer Hooded Blanket. You can purchase the pattern in my Etsy and Ravelry shops.
Video Tutorials
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Winter Snowflake Afghan Playlist
How to Crochet The Snowflake Square (EASY Motif Pattern)
How to Crochet The Snowflake Square (EASY Motif Pattern) LEFT-HANDED
How To Do The Invisible Seamless Join Technique
Pattern Notes
Level
- intermediate
Project Size/ Gauge
- 125cm by 150cm
- each square is 25 x 25 cm
Pattern Characteristics
- baby blanket
- textured
Yarn Used
- Marriner Yarns Chunky in Gray, White, and Red
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Supplies
- 6 x 100g Marriner Yarns Chunky in Gray
- 6 x 100g Marriner Yarns Chunky in White
- 2 x 100g Marriner Yarns Chunky in Red
- 6 mm and 6.5 mm crochet hooks
- tapestry needle
- scissors
Format & Terms
- Pattern written in US terms using Craft Yarn Council abbreviations.
- Written in English only
Special Stitches
Picot Stitch (pst) – ch3, sl st in the base stitch (NOT the base chain) by inserting the hook through the middle of the stitch and behind the loops.
Double Crochet Cluster (dc cl) – *yo, insert hook in the ch space, yo and pull up a loop, yo and pull through only the first 2 loops on the hook* x 2, yo and pull through all the 3 loops on the hook.
Long Double Crochet (Ldc) – A long double crochet is made just like the regular one, except you insert the hook 2 spaces below and pull a long loop.
Abbreviations
Pattern written in US terms using Craft Yarn Council abbreviations.
- slip knot
- magic ring
- st(s) – stitch(es)
- ch(s) – chain(s)
- sl st – slip stitch
- yo- yarn over
- sk – skip
- sc – single crochet
- hdc – half double crochet
- dc – double crochet
- pst – picot stitch
- Ldc – long double crochet
- dc cl – double crochet cluster
Winter Snowflake Afghan – Written Pattern
- ch3 at the beginning of the round counts as a dc stitch
- the section between * * is the section that needs to be repeated
- the section between ( ) is crocheted in the same stitch or chain space
- the section between ** ** includes the section between * * and will be repeated on each side of the blanket
The Snowflake Squares
The Winter Snowflake Afghan is made with 20 Snowflake Squares.
With White yarn and a 6.5 mm hook, create a magic ring.
Round 1: Working in the magic ring, ch2, dc, ch2, *dc cl, ch2* x 7, sl st to close the round. Pull the magic ring tail to close the hole shut.
Round 2: Sl st in next ch2 space, (ch2, dc, ch2, dc cl) in the same ch2 space, *(dc cl, ch2, dc cl, ch2) in the next ch2 space* x 7, sl st to close the round.
Round 3: Sl st in next ch2 space, (ch2, dc, ch3, dc cl, ch2) in the same ch2 space, sc in next ch2 space, ch2, *(dc cl, ch3, dc cl, ch2) in next ch2 space, sc in next ch2 space, ch2* x 7, sl st to close the round.
Round 4: sl st in next ch3 space, (ch2, dc, ch1, dc cl, pst, ch1, dc cl, ch2) in the same ch3 space, *sc in next ch2 space* x 2, ch2, *(dc cl, ch1, dc cl, pst, ch1, dc cl, ch2) in next ch3 space, sc in next ch2 space, sc in next ch2 space, ch2* x 7, sl st to close the round.
Round 5: Change colors to Gray. Join the gray yarn by pulling a loop of gray yarn through the white loop and ch1, cut the white yarn, and pull the tail to close the white loop.
*(2Sc) in next ch1 space, push the picot stitch in front and (2sc) in next ch1 space, dc in next ch2 space, (2ldc) in the ch space below on R2, dc in next ch2 space, (2dc) in next ch1 space, ch1, push the picot stitch in front and (2dc) in next ch1 space, dc in next ch2 space, (2ldc) in the ch space below on R2, dc in next ch2 space* x 4, sl st to close the round.
Round 6: Ch1, starting from the stitch where you sl st, *sc in next 4 stitches, dc in next 6sts, (2dc, ch2, 2dc) in next ch1 space, dc in next 6sts* x 4, sl st to close the round.
Round 7: Ch3 (counts as a dc), dc in next 11sts, (2dc, ch2, 2dc) in next ch2 space, *dc in next 20sts, (2dc, ch2, 2dc) in next ch2 space* x 3, dc in next 8sts, sl st at the top of ch3 to close the round, fasten off and weave in all the ends.
Joining The Snowflake Squares Into A Blanket
Place all the squares on a flat surface such as the floor or a table.
Use Gray color yarn and the seamless join technique to sew the squares in long strips (5 strips of 4 squares).
Then sew the strips to each other.
The Border
The border is crocheted using a 6 mm crochet hook and Chunky yarn in White and Red.
With Red, join in the corner with a slip knot
Round 1: ch1 (does not count as a stitch), **(hdc,ch3, hdc) in the corner stitch, *ch3, sk1, hdc in next*, repeat from * until you have 1st left before the next corner st, ch3, sk1** x 4, sl st into the first hdc you made in the round, fasten off, weave in the ends.
Change to White and join any ch3 space in the corner
Round 2: ch2 (does not count as a stitch), *(3dc, ch2, 3dc) in the ch3 space of the corner, (3dc) in each of the next ch3 spaces until you reach the next ch3 in the corner* x 4, sl st in the first dc in the round, fasten off, weave in the ends
Change to Red and join in any ch2 in the corner
Round 3: ch1 (does not count as a stitch), ** (hdc, ch3, hdc) in the ch2 space in the corner, *ch3, hdc in the space between the (3dc) clusters*, repeat from * until you have reached the next ch2 space in the corner, ch3** x 4, sl st in the first hdc in the round, fasten off, weave in the ends
Change to White and join in any ch3 space in the corner.
Round 4: ch2 (does not count as a stitch), *(3dc, ch2, 3dc) in the ch3 space of the corner, (3dc) in each of the next ch3 spaces until you reach the next ch3 in the corner* x 4, sl st in the first dc in the round, fasten off, weave in the ends
Change to Red and join in any ch2 space in the corner.
Round 5: ch1 (does not count as a stitch), **(2sc, ch5, sl st in the base stitch, sc) in the ch2 space of the corner, ch1, sk1, * (sc, ch5, sl st in the base stitch) in the next stitch, ch1, sk1* repeat from * until you reach the ch2 space in the corner** x 4, sl st in the first sc in the round, fasten off, weave in the ends.
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