This is a comprehensive tutorial for the first three rounds of the Chromium Star Blanket. In round two you’ll be working into chain one stitches and in round three (and beyond) the adjacent double crochet stitch (adc) is used. This stitch fills in the spots where a chain space would normally occur and creates a more solid looking starghan.
The adjacent double crochet stitch may seem odd but give it a try. Everything about the adjacent stitch is the same as a regular double crochet stitch except where you insert the hook.
If you’re looking for adjacent stitches in crochet squares, check out the Adjacent Stitch Square tutorial.
Leftie? Me too! Scroll down for left handed directions.
Right Handed Directions
The trick with round two is to remember to work in the chain one stitch, not the space.
After joining round two with a slip stitch, chain one, skip the chain one from the last round and dc in the next single crochet stitch.
Then double crochet in the same single crochet again,
Note how each double crochet has four prongs on the base, two on the right side and two on the wrong side, that loop around the double crochet stitch beneath it.
Yo and inset hook in bottom front left prong.
Proceed as if this stitch were a normal double crochet stitch…
Pull loop through bottom right prong.
Pull through one loop on hook.
To complete the shell, double crochet twice more…
Skip the chain one stitch and slip stitch in the next single crochet.
Voila! One star point with an adjacent stitch complete.
Left Handed Directions
The trick with round two is to remember to work in the chain one stitch, not the space.
After joining round two with a slip stitch, chain one, skip the chain one from the last round and dc in the next single crochet stitch.
Then double crochet in the same single crochet again,
Note how each double crochet has four prongs on the base, two on the right side and two on the wrong side, that loop around the double crochet stitch beneath it.
Yo and inset hook in bottom front right prong.
Proceed as if this stitch were a normal double crochet stitch…
Pull loop through bottom right prong.
Pull through one loop on hook.
Yo and pull through two loops.
To complete the shell, double crochet twice more…
Skip the chain one stitch and slip stitch in the next single crochet.
Voila! One star point with an adjacent stitch complete.
A Whole Load of Craft 
Oh, this is great.
I will have to try this and all your other suggestions.
Thanks,
Alma
I have a question, in Round 2 you say to do the repeat 4 more times but the end result should be 10 SCs? Is that right? Or is it do the repeat 3 more times (for a total of 4) resulting in 10? This is a challenging pattern, but I am determined to get through it!
Thanks in advance!
Kris
Kris –
Round 2 consists of 10 single crochet stitches and 10 chain-ones. You’re working Round 2 to get 20 sts, but half of them are ch-1 spaces.
Good luck with the blanket! It is always exciting to hear that someone is trying the pattern. I hope to see a picture of your FO!
Laura
OH JACKPOT! Thank you so much for this tutorial! I’ve been so lost trying to do similar stitches! I can’t wait to try this pattern. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Bear with me (or is it ‘bare’?) as I’m a total pattern noob.
I’m having difficulties with round one. You mention to use the magic ring technique which is easy enough, but I’m totally missing how to go from that to round 1. Or should I be using the magic loop, but with sc / ch 1 instead of just sc, as listed in the loop tutorial?
I’m not sure If I’m just a little too slow… but I so don’t get the adc! I’m not understanding the prong thing… I’m not sure if there’s any way to make it make more sense or if thats that.
Oh Ack… Plz reactivate ya photobucket acct lol
Hi there, I was also wondering if you can re post the pictures cause i would love to make this for my neice. :)
This is a SUPER easy little project! I’m only on round 6 but I’m loving it so far. Thank you for such a great pattern and even better left-handed directions!
This is an amazingly clear tutorial. Thank you so much!!!!!
Fantastic tutorial! Thanks!
I think “Pull loop through bottom right prong.” needs to be changed to “Pull loop through bottom left prong.” in the right handed directions.
Am I correct?
I ended up with only 4 points after round 3. How did this happen. This whole pattern confuses me I wish someone would make a video tutorial.
I totally agree. This pattern makes zero sense to me.
I’m having the same problem Kim, I think I’m doing round 1 wrong but not sure how :/
I really don’t understand the pattern, for round one how many stich for the chain? 5? and for round 2 it’s one single crochet stitche and in the next stich it’s 10 chain-ones (don’t know what this is)? I’m sorry I’m looking everywhere on the net for example or video and can’t find a damn thing anywhere. How many stich are we suppose to have in the end of the first, second and third one? I’ve looked in the pattern of the star too but it’s not write how many we suppose to have in the end of each :(
Please help me, I really want to do it (T_T)
[…] the space between the last 3 dc cluster of R2 and the first 3 dc cluster of R2, *hdc, 2 dc, trbl, Adjacent Treble, trbl, 2 dc, hdc all in ch 3 space, sc in the next spece between 3 dc clusters from R2, repeat […]
If someone have already done it (successfully) could make a video or picture by picture round 1 – 2 – 3?
I’ll try my best, if I succeed I’ll do it, but after 7 month I’m still not able to (I’m close to the depression here)
I gotta tell you, I am a veteran at this, nearing 25 years of crocheting. I have never had more issue trying to understand what the writer is trying to get at. No matter how many times I do the first 3 rows, I don’t get it. I think that the more I read the instructions rather than the pattern the more confused I get. But I do need the instructions to get through the 3rd row. How is it that working into the ch1 space isn’t the same as working into the ch1 stitch? Unless you work into the loop itself then the space from a chain1 is indeed the only place you can work into. Then in row 3 when I work it as the pattern states, I wind up with only 4 points. Honestly, I feel like I must have had a stroke if so many people have been able to create this accurately and not change things as they go and I just can’t wrap my head around it. I am going to give it another go and not follow instructions exactly in order to get the 5 points and hope that I will be in the right place to move on to row 4. I just hope that I don’t have problems after that.
Is there anyone out there that writes patterns regularly that could maybe give it a go at re-writing this one in different terms maybe? There are so many different possibilities in writing the same pattern using different ways to state the same thing. Just thinking that maybe someone accustomed to writing with the terms that Lion Brand or Drops Studio or even Red Heart use would clarify this for those of us that are having trouble. I even got my grandmother in on this, she has been crocheting for about 75 years, and she is confused as well.
oh, I really think a good video tutorial on the first 5 or so rows would make this much easier to get.
darn, keep thinking of more info to make myself make more sense. It isnt the stitches themselves that are tripping me up but the placement of the stitches.
Don’t feel bad! I’ve been crocheting for 50 years straight and I’m having some confusion here! I have another Star pattern I bought from Herchners catalogs and I think they have a misprint in that one too! I’m thought if I crossed referenced the two, I’d come up with a solution, but so far it’s been two years and I’ve given up. I’m about to go back to it again with fresh eyes! If I don’t lose this site I’ll repost any answers I find!
it would be so nice to have a video tutorial it might be better understood so confuse
I replaced the adc with a treble and it’s working very well.
es hermoso quisiera el patron gracias
Don’t understand how you repeat row eight to the end four times and keep to pattern help,!
Hi, If I want to make the blanket larger can I continue repeating the last few rows to desired size?
Are there directions and a list of necessary yarn for the multiple color star? I would love to make this.
I see all these directions for right-handed…. What about us lefties who want to use the tutorial?