These intricate seamless, 3-dimensional knitted stars make wonderful gifts or ornaments for your Christmas tree and are an intermediate knitter’s joy. They use under 20g of 4-ply Luxury each and are a fun way to bust those pesky leftovers in your stash!

Utilise your skills using either double-pointed needles or magic loop (or a combination of both), cabled twists and Japanese-inspired twisted stitches in this project. Read from the pattern or work from the charts.

The project is worked by casting all the edge stitches onto cable needles using Judy’s Magic Cast-on method (JMCO). One half of the stitches wait on a holding yarn to be resumed once the first side is completed. Join in the round and work from outside to inside, decreasing each round until only 10 stitches remain; then use a tapestry needle to pull them together to form the star centre.

Begin the second side by picking up the stitches waiting on the holding yarn and repeat the process to create the reverse side. Before closing the hole, fill with stuffing and insert a hanger, then sew up the hole to complete the ornament.