Introducing Solstice Star

A wonderfully textured, eight-point star forms the centre of this design, building out to form a square blanket.
The entire blanket is made in the round.

Most of the stitches are quite simple, it is the way they are put together that forms a fabulous texture throughout the design.

The finished sizes are below, along with the approximate amounts of yarn needed both for a Baby size blanket and a Full size blanket.

Should you wish to support me as a designer, purchasing yarn packs from Wool Warehouse giving me a small commission.
Or you can make a donation at any time by using the make a donation button at the top of the Free Patterns area in your members dashboard.

Thank you xx

Copyright: © Helen Shrimpton, 2025.  All rights reserved. This beautiful new CAL, crochet a-long, will be hosted in the Facebook group Helen’s Hookaholics.

♥ Please remember this is my design and I have spent thousands of hours working to bring you this free pattern and all the support that goes with it. My testers and translators have also spent hundreds of hours making sure this pattern is everything you have come to expect.

♥ Each part of the CAL will be available here on my website, with links in the Facebook group.

♥ The pattern is exclusively for members of my Facebook group and website members, it is covered by copyright law. Any translations are only with permission from me, sharing any part of this pattern/cal is not allowed. You may not copy, share or publish any part of this pattern or my photographs in any format.

♥ Please make sure you ask permission from me, should you wish to host any other group to make this cal, either online or in person, this will not be allowed until after the CAL has finished.

♥ You may share a link to www.crystalsandcrochet.com or to the Facebook group with anyone.

♥ You may do whatever you like with your finished item….sell it, save it, gift it, hang it from the local flag pole!!

♥ You may share a link to my website or Ravelry store with anyone, you may print the PDF for your own use, but please do not alter, change or share in any way.

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♥ Each week you will find the pdf to download from my website, there will be links posted in the Facebook group Helen’s Hookaholics.

You will need to become a member of my website, either free or monthly, as every pattern will be available to download from the free patterns section in your dashboard, you can come back to it as many times as you like.

At the top of the pattern page – click on Access Patterns or sign in if you are a member. This will take you to the Free patterns section.

Click on the picture of the part you want to download.

Choose your option/language.

The pdf will then open for you to download

Links for the video tutorials will be found on the page for each part of the Crochet A Long as it is published.
I appreciate any of you who use the YouTube tutorials both liking and subscribing to my YouTube channel as this supports me as a designer.

♥ There will be a choice of US terms and UK terms in both photo tutorial and written only pattern and, also full video tutorial support in US terms.

Solstice Star has been translated by an amazing team, to help people from all over the world to join together to create this beautiful blanket.

This introduction has also been translated to help everyone understand how to enjoy this Crochet A-Long.

Click to download pdf in your chosen language.

Introducing Solstice Star crochet along 2025 Dutch Simone Ypkemeule – Jellie Snijders.

Introducing Solstice Star crochet along 2025 French Marie Tremblay – Valerie Favreau – Marie Eve Lamotte Poncet.

Introducing Solstice Star crochet along 2025 German Monika Llau – Christine Delano – Julie Concannon.

Introducing Solstice Star crochet along 2025 Italian Elisa De Cervo – Patrizia Garbellotto – Edita Maddalena Cappelli.

Introducing Solstice Star crochet along 2025 Spanish Elizabeth Pintado, Lynda Hernández,Teresa Sánchez, Julia Veloso Pazols.

♥ Thank you so much for your time and hard work to enable so many people from all around the world to join us in this CAL.

There will be three yarn packs available. Please see details below.

Each of the yarn packs has plenty of yarn to make the colourway to the finished size using the hook size recommended.

However, we all have slightly different tension, so I do recommend making a very small test square just to make sure that you will achieve the recommended results and have plenty of yarn.
To make a test square and check your tension, and to see which hook size works best for you, please see this tutorial: Tension and Gauge.

I always encourage you to create your own colourway to personalise your blanket, either for you or the lucky person who receives it as a gift.

The total amount of yarn needed allowing for colour changes is:

Normal Double Knit yarn – #3 weight – 8-ply – 4mm G hook – approx. 4750 metres – 5155 yards
Finished size  154.5cm /  61 inches.

For Aran – Worsted – 10-ply yarn, using a 5mm H hook, I recommend allowing 20% more yarn.

How much yarn you need depends on how many colours you choose to use.
Please see the details of the yarn packs below to give you an idea.
You will see that I used 4, 5 and 7 colours in my blankets.

I could not bring you any of my patterns without the help, love, support, and kindness of my amazing testing team. Thank you to all of the testing team, I love you ladies. Here are some of the beautiful examples made by my fabulous testing team along with links to their Ravelry project page to share with you the yarn and colours they used. Solstice Star can be made as a baby blanket as shown below.

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♥ If you need help and advice, the quickest way to find support is to join Helen’s Hookaholics Facebook group. There you will find a very supportive group of likeminded people. It’s also a great place to share your crystalsandcrochet makes, and see what others are making, and see what I am up to.

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