Celebrate the winter season with a beautiful garland. The cheerful gradient, wooden beads and golden tassle add a festive touch to your home. Let’s craft some holiday magic!

Yarn
Scheepjes Catona (100% Cotton, 10g/25m):

• Colour A: 106 Snow White x 1 ball
• Colour B: 238 Powder Pink x 1 ball
• Colour C: 246 Icy Pink x 1 ball
• Colour D: 222 Tulip x 1 ball
• Colour E: 398 Colonial Rose x 1 ball
• Colour F: 240 Amethyst x 1 ball
• Colour G: 226 Light Orchid x 1 ball
• Colour H: 257 Antique Mauve x 1 ball
• Colour I: 383 Ginger Gold x 1 ball
• Colour J: 249 Saffron x 1 ball
• Colour K: 208 Yellow Gold x 1 ball
• Colour L: 411 Sweet Orange x 1 ball

Other

• Golden seed beads (I used ~135 Toho Silver-lined Med Topaz, a 10g package of beads)
• Wooden beads in different sizes. I used 50 each of a small and medium-sized bead, and 2 large beads
• Beading or jewellery thread, or fishing wire that fits seed beads
• 25mm ring for hanging
• Small amount of filling for stars
• Optional: 2 golden bells for tassel

Crochet hook
3.5 mm (US size E/4).

Measurements
Each star measures 8cm/3.15in in height (10cm/4in from point to point), total garland measures 145cm/57in.

Gauge/tension
Gauge is not critical for this project.

Abbreviations (US terms)

• Beg-popc: begin-popcorn: ch3, crochet 3dc in same stitch, remove hook from loop, put hook from front to back through 3rd ch from beginning ch and pick up loop again, pull through loop on hook
• BPhdc: Back post hdc: yarn over, insert hook from back to front and back to back around the stem of the stitch, yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through all loops.
• ch: chain
• dc: double crochet
• dropped hdc: a regular hdc, but made in one or more rows below the previous row
• hdc: half double crochet
• hdc2tog: half double crochet 2 stitches together
• picot: ch2, insert hook through first of two ch, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook
• popc: popcorn: crochet 6dc in same stitch, remove hook from loop, put hook from front to back through first dc and pick up loop again, pull through loop on hook
• RS: right side
• ss: slip stitch
• sc: single crochet
• st(s): stitch(es)
• WS: wrong side