Here it is! The first snowflake tutorial how wonderful is that.
Below is the written instructions for how to crochet a snowflake, written as if you had never picked up a crochet hook before in your life.
If you know how to read patterns and just want to know the bare bones; at the very bottom is the pattern written out in short hand.
The pattern has headings and steps in bold - followed by plain English instructions. the steps are numbered and any step that needs a bit of extra explaining will have alphabetical bullet points below it. I'm sure you can figure it out, I believe in you.
If you still cant deal with all the instructions here is the video
Lets get into it!
Foundation (AKA the first few stitches to get started):
Form a slip knot on your finger - Do this by wrapping the yarn around your finger twice then pulling the back loop over the front loop - twice, then slipping the front loop off you finger entirely. you should have a single loop of yarn over your finger.
Transfer slip knot to hook - Insert your hook into the loop on your finger, remove finger and tighten the knot by pulling the yarn tail. Congratulations you have made a slip knot.
Chain 6 – Chain means to wrap the yarn over the hook then pull that yarn through the existing loop on your hook. Do this 6 times. (it will make the yarn knot together. Each individual knot is called a chain)
Slip stitch into the first chain space – Insert your hook just above your slip knot (in your first Chain), wrap the yarn over the hook, pull the yarn back through the chain and then pull the yarn through the loop on your hook. You will now have a small circle that is made up of 6 chains.
Congratulations you have made the foundation. Now we are adding another layer. This is called a Round as we are going around the circle and adding a layer. This snowflake 3 rounds.
Round 1:
Chain 1 - Yarn over and pull through to form a single chain.
Double Crochet into chain 6 space – Double Crochet means you are going to be yarning over your hook twice in total. So first insert your hook in our chain 6 loop we just made,  loop your yarn over your hook, pull your hook back out drawing the yarn up with you. You should now have two loops on your hook. Now yarn over your hook again and then pull this final loop through the first 2. You should only have 1 loop of yarn remaining on your hook.
Chain 5Â - Yarn over and pull through to create 5 standard chains
Double Crochet into chain 6 space - insert you hook into the chain 6 space, loop your yarn over your hook, pull your hook back out of the chain 6 space, yarn over again and then pull the first loop through the remaining 2. You should only have one loop left on your hook.
Do steps 3 & 4 again 4 more times.
Chain 2
Double Treble into Chain from step 1: (closing the loop) ok don't freak out, it sounds weird but its easy. The "double" means we are going to yarn over our hook twice before we insert our hook and the "treble" means we are going to making 3 chains in the end. lets do it:
Yarn over your hook twice.
Insert hook into the chain 1 space( from step 1), then yarn over again and pull yarn though. You should now have 4 loops on your hook.
Yarn over a 5th time and pull that fifth loop thought the next 2 loops.
Yarn over and pull through the next 2 loops
yarn over and pull through remaining 2 loops.
Congratulations you have now finished Round 1, you should have 6 loops comprising of 5 chains with the last loop finishing in the middle of the loop.
Round 2
Chain 1 - Yarn over and pull through to form a single chain.
Double Crochet into chain 5 space - insert you hook into the chain 5 space, loop your yarn over your hook, pull your hook back out of the chain 5 space, yarn over again and then pull the first loop through the remaining 2. You should only have one loop left on your hook.
Chain 6 - Yarn over and pull through 6 times to form a chain of six.
Double crochet into the next chain 5 space - insert your hook into the next chain 5 space, yarn over your hook, pull your hook and yarn back out of the space, yarn over again and pull the first loop through the remaining 2.
repeat steps 3 & 4 above 4 times
Chain 6 - Yarn over and pull through six times to form a chain of 6.
Slip stitch into chain 1 space from step 1Â - Insert hook into the the chain 1 space from step 1 (this will close the loop) yarn over your hook, pull your yarn back through then pull the yarn through the remaining loop on your hook.
Congratulations you have finished Round 2. You should now have 6 loops of 6 connected onto the middle of your 6 loops of 5.
Round 3
Double Crochet into the next chain 6 space - insert your hook into the next chain 6 space, yarn over your hook, pull your hook and yarn back out of the space, yarn over again and pull the first loop through the remaining 2.
Chain 3Â - Yarn over and pull through three times to form a chain of 3
Double Crochet into the chain 6 space - insert your hook into the chain 6 space, yarn over your hook, pull your hook and yarn back out of the space, yarn over again and pull the first loop through the remaining 2.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 once
Form Picot - Ok this is a fiddly bit but I promise ill talk you though it
Chain 5Â - Yarn over and pull through 5 times to form a chain of 5
Slip Stitch into 3rd chain from the hook - Look at the chain 5 you just made. Count three down from your hook, insert your hook into that chain. You will now have two chains above your hook and two chains below it. Yarn over your hook and bring it through the chain space. Slip the loop through the remaining yarn on your hook. You should now have only one loop on your hook.
Chain 3 - Yarn over and pull through three times to form a chain of 3
Slip stitch into 3rd chain from the hook - insert your hook in the the first chain of your chain of three. yarn over and pull though, then pull that loop through the remaining loop on your hook. you should only have one loop on your hook.
Repeat steps c. and d.Â
Slip stitch into the 2nd chain in the chain 5 space from step a. - you are closing the picot, so you are going to be slip stitching into the first chain below our first little bubbly bit (AKA our picot), this is the 2nd chain of the 5 chains we did in step a. insert your hook into this chain, yarn over and pull though then pull through the remaining loop on your hook.
Slip stitch into the next chain down - this is actually the first chain in the chain 5 from step a. insert hook, yarn over and pull through, pull through the remaining loop oh your hook.
Slip stitch into the diagonal foundational stitches - (OPTIONAL) - This just helps our little picot to sit flat but if you find it too fiddly just leave it out until your more confident :) There are two diagonal strips of yarn sitton just below our last slip stitch location. these are the foundation of our picot. if you can, insert your hook through those two stitches, yarn over and pull through, then pull through your remaining loop.
Double crochet into the chain 6 space - insert your hook into the chain 6 space, yarn over your hook, pull your hook and yarn back out of the space, yarn over again and pull the first loop through the remaining 2.
Chain 3Â - Yarn over and pull through three times to form a chain of 3
Repeat steps 6 & 7
Repeat steps 1 - 8 on the remaining 5 loops.
To finish you want to slip stitch into the first single crochet space, pull through desired amount of yarn then cut it.
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Congratulations you have made your very first snowflake! Well done!
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Here is the short hand for you wonderful humans who can read such things :)
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short hand UK terminology
Abreviations
ch = Chain
sl st = Slip Stitch
dc = Double Crochet
db trb = Double Treble
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Foundation
Slipt knot, ch 6 sl st into ch 1 space to form a loop
Round 1
Ch 1, dc into loop, chain 5 dc x 5, ch 2 db trb into ch1 space to close
Round 2
Ch1, dc into chain 5 space, ch 6 dc into next ch 5 space x 5, ch 6 sl st into ch 1 space to close.
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Round 3
Dc into next ch 6 space. Ch 3 dc x2, ch 5 sl st into 3rd ch from hook. Ch 3 sl st into first ch x 2, sl st into first ch below picot, sl st through diagonal stitches. Dc into ch 6 space. Ch 3 dc x 2. Â x6
Finish with a sl st.
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