Granny Star Decorations

Hello...... Now that Christmas has been and gone I can safely share this post.  Yes over the past few months I have been making these Granny Star Decorations, for friends and family as a little homemade touch to my gifts. 

It all started off with a Craft based Secret Santa gift for someone who loves stars and once I'd started making them I just could not stop.

I used Zelna's wonderful Granny Stars pattern as a starting point for these decoration, crocheting the first three rounds only of the pattern.

I then pinned and blocked each star by hovering the steam iron over them, two stars for each decoration. I used lots of sparkly yarns for this make seeing as it was Christmas.

I also used some candy cane string and cute little wooden embellishments,

Stitching one into the centre of each star, before pinning the stars together, adding a little stuffing and stitching each pair of stars.

This was the first star I made and one of my favourites, I love it's simple Scandi Style,

Before long though I was branching out into different Festive Colour combinations

Ta- Dah

Cute little Granny Stars, off to spread some festive cheer.

They all went off in the post long before we got around to putting the tree up this year.

I did make one just for the Summerhouse though.

Here it is hanging on the tree with some of our other decorations,  lookie the Button Baubles also made it onto the tree as well as the Felt Strawberry I made 'here' it's lovely to have a little bits of homemade craftiness on the tree.

As always thanks has to go to chief crafting assistant Merlin, who always has a paw in the mix.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.....

Happy Crafting

Clare xx