Snowflakes Crochet pattern

'That time' of year is approaching rapidly and I thought I would put a little project together for Christmas, with my current fascination for all things crochet it seemed a natural progression to crochet something and a snowflake seemed a fine idea!
I've had a look around to see what's already being produced and decided to put my little design slant on it - with a bit of glitter, beads and fluff....we all need a bit of sparkle at Christmas....I've been pretty busy producing these and there are many variations but they are all using the same pattern so what I have done is produced the pattern and then below a picture of the snowflake I have placed the instructions of the yarns I have used.
For my snowflakes I used Rowan Kid Silk Haze - double, a 4 ply lurex yarn and clear beads which were threaded on to the mohair before I started to crochet and I also used a 3mm crochet hook.  On the largest snowflake I also used a Rowan Cotton Glace in Pale Grey.
Hope you enjoy this pattern you'll find it seriously addictive even if you make a few or a blizzard of them!

Materials

3mm crochet hook

Rowan Kid Silk Haze - used double shade 642 Ghost

Rowan Cotton Glace - Pale grey

Anchor Artiste Metallic

Debbie Abrahams Beads - size 6 Colour 34

Abbreviations: English, American in bracket

ch - chain

dc - double crochet (sc - single crochet)

tr - treble (dc - double crochet)

htr - half treble ( hdc - half double crochet)

sl st - slip stitch

Thread beads on to mohair.

Begin with ch 3, sl st to for a ring.

Rnd 1. Ch3 (counts as a tr), 1tr into ring, *(ch2, 2tr) in ring, repeat from* 4 more times ch2 then sl st to top of ch3. 6 spaces

Rnd 2.  Ch4 (counts as a tr and ch1), * (tr, ch2, tr)in next ch2 space, ch1 rep from* 4 more times tr in last space produced by ch2 on previous row join with htr to 3rd chain of ch4.

Rnd 3.  Ch3 (counts as tr), (tr, ch1, pull bead up, ch1, 2tr) in space made by joining htr, dc in next ch1 space,*(2tr, ch1, pull bead up, ch1, 2tr) in next ch2 space, dc in next ch1 space, repeat from* around, join with a sl st to top of ch 3.

Rnd 4.  Ch3 ( counts as a tr), *(3tr, ch1, pull bead up, ch2, 3tr) in next ch2 space, tr in next tr, skip 1tr, dc in next dc, skip 1tr, tr in next tr, repeat from * around missing last tr, join with a sl st to the top of your ch3.

Rnd 5.  Ch3 (counts as a tr),*tr in next 2 tr, (3tr, ch3, 3tr) in next ch3 space, tr in next 3 tr, skip 1 tr, dc in next dc, skip 1 tr, tr in next tr, repeat from * around, omitting last tr, join to top of ch3. 

Rnd 6.  Ch1, dc in each 5tr, *3dc across ch3, dc in each 6 tr, 1dc in dc,dc in each 6 tr, repeat from * 4 times more then 3dc across ch3, dc in each 6 tr, sl st to ch1 at start of round.

Fasten off.

Small snowflake: Round 1 &2 in lurex

Round 3 - Kid Silk Haze (double) and beads

Medium snowflake: Round 1&2 in lurex

Round 3 & 4 - Kid Silk Haze (double) and beads 

Large snowflake: Round 1&2 in lurex

Round 3 - Kid Silk Haze (double)

Round 4 - lurex

Round 5 - Kid Silk Haze (double) and beads

I thought this would make a nice wine coaster for a dinner setting

Round 1 - lurex

Round 2&3 - Cotton glace

Round 4 - lurex

Round 5 - Cotton Glace

Round 6 - Kid Silk Haze (double)