Bring a frosty touch of handmade elegance and festive winter magic to your seasonal collection with this cute crochet mini snowflake charm pattern! Designed as a quick-stitch, multi-purpose project packed with holiday cheer, this free pattern crafts a crisp 6-petal star base accented with delicate surface embroidery details to create a wintry snowflake using an adjustable magic ring, continuous and joined flat rounds, basic single crochets (sc), half double crochets (hdc), double crochets (dc), picot stitches, and simple surface embroidery.
Inside this post, you will find step-by-step instructions and practical tips for maintaining even point symmetry, blocking and stiffening small snowflakes so they keep their crisp shape, embroidering surface details cleanly, and attaching loops or metal hardware for a pristine, market-ready presentation.
Materials & Tools
Yarn: 4-ply or 5-ply milk cotton yarn (or similar sport/DK weight yarn) in:
Main color: Green, Red, or your preferred base color
Contrasting color: Cream or White (for the embroidered snowflake design)
Crochet Hook: 2.5 mm
Notions & Accessories:
Tapestry / yarn needle
Scissors
Stitch marker (optional)
Keychain lanyard / strap with jump ring (optional, for making a bag charm)
Abbreviations (US Terms)
ch – chain
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
hdc – half double crochet
dc – double crochet
tr – treble (triple) crochet
inc – increase (work 2 stitches into the same stitch)
MR – magic ring
st(s) – stitch(es)
Note: Each round begins with a turning/starting chain (ch 1) and ends with a slip stitch into the first stitch to close the round.
Crochet Pattern
Round 1: Foundation Ring
Start with a magic ring.
Insert hook through the ring, pull yarn through, and ch 1 as the turning chain (does not count as a stitch).
Work 6 sc into the magic ring.
Hold the starting yarn tail and pull the ring firmly closed.
Sl st into the first sc to join.
Ch 1.
(Total: 6 stitches)
Round 2: Circle Expansion
Work a single crochet increase into every stitch around (work 2 sc into each stitch).
Repeat across all 6 stitches.
Sl st into the first sc to join.
Ch 1.
(Total: 12 stitches)
