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It’s always the right time to start Christmas preparations.
Lacy snowflakes have come back recently as a popular decoration. Recently, you can purchase one or even a beautiful packed set in exclusive shops. However, if you like to make an exceptional Christmas gift, a set of crochet lacy snowflakes will be the perfect choice to make someone you like happy with a handmade gift. 30 free crochet snowflake pattern gift ideas will help you to find perfect project to start with.
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Elegant Free Crochet Snowflake Pattern Ideas
Frosty Lace
Skills: Easy Designer: Anastassiya Bond
This pattern is maybe not the easiest one, but definitely worth to try. You can use a thin thread in one color or cotton yarns in 3 or more colors to make the one as at the photos beneath. 
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Buy the yarn to make this project: DMC Crochet Babylo Fine
Frosty Tails Snowflake
Skills: Easy Designer: Julia Hart
The Frosty Tails Snowflake crochet pattern is a charming design. With delicate stitches and a frosty palette, it captures the beauty of winter in crochet form.
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Adele Snowflake
Skills: Easy Designer: Irina Maleeva
The Adele Snowflake crochet pattern is a delicate and elegant design inspired by the intricacies of snowflakes. Perfect for holiday decorations, ornaments, or embellishing winter garments, the Adele Snowflake pattern adds a touch of sophistication to any crochet project.
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Buy the yarn to make this project: DMC Crochet Babylo Fine
Snowflake “Miracles happens”
Skills: Easy Designer: Anastassiya Bond
The “Miracles Happen” Snowflake crochet pattern is a heartwarming design that combines the beauty of snowflakes with an uplifting message.
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Buy the yarn to make this project: DMC Crochet Babylo Fine
Five Lace Snowflakes
Skills: Easy Designer: Jane Green
These five lacy snowflakes are delicate and will be perfect to decorate not only a Christmas tree, but walls and windows as well. Also, an office, school desk or store front… none can escape your crocheting power. I love the deceptive simplicity of this pattern.
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Quetzal Snowflake
Skills: Easy Designer: Jessica Wifall
This is a bit of a different snowflake, whose shape is created by outlining empty space. Also, unlike traditional ones, the Quetzal snowflake has a smoother outer edge. It looks so modern and fashionable.
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Frizzy Daisy Snowflake
The Frizzy Daisy Snowflake is based on a 6-petal flower shape and brings a bit of sun and summer into your Christmas without melting the snow and icicles. This pattern uses picots to achieve the snowflake frilly effect.
Skills: Easy Designer: Crochet Frog
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Perfect Crochet Snowflakes
The full article about this pattern is here:
More info about Project 1 and Project 2.
Winterlore Snowflake
The Winterlore snowflake is a beautiful design that’s evocative of Celtic knot work. Indeed, the intricate “flow” of it’s yarn is a wonderful way of bringing some of the fractal complexity of real snow to life at home.
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How to crochet a puffy snowflake
To begin with, the first puffy snowflake pattern is methodological one that includes a YT tutorial.
The full tutorial by Jonna Martinez is on Youtube :
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Frozen Puff Snowflakes
Next, the puffy snowflake in this spot is a lacier, more delicate one that is for making decorations.
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Helina Snowflake
Puffy and solid, the Helina Snowflake will be a perfect choice for everyone looking for a snowflake pattern for a garland or applique. This pattern is the ideal filler for your Christmas decorative creation and is a great way to add depth to what’s a traditionally 2D shape.
Skills: Easy Designer: K.A.M.E. Crochet
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Goldfinch Snowflake
Another pattern by Jessica Witfall, this one will be perfect for those looking for simplicity and a classic star shape for their snowflakes. This is another of those classic shapes that has been approached in a modern way.
Skills: Easy Designer: Jessica Wifall
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Frostarra Snowflake
Here is a beautiful snowflake pattern designed with perfection. A puff stitch used to fill in snowflake’s arms gives a fluffy / puffy effect and combined with a second color filled inside, will be a perfect addition to any Christmas tree or New Year’s Eve decoration.
Skills: Easy Designer: Julia Hart
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Ariel Snowflake
This pattern may look complicated, but it has only only 8 rounds. Since the finished snowflake measures 5 1/2” across, it’s just the right size to decorate a table or a sideboard..
Skills: Easy to Intermediate Designer :Irina Maleeva
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Ariel Snowflake x 6
Skills: Easy Designer : Irina Maleeva
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Frostvale Snowflake
This one is indisputably one of the most classic ones here. Delicate and lacy, consequently will be a great accent or highlight without taking away from the main decorative theme.
Skills: Easy Designer : Julia Hart
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Winter Realm Snowflake
Skills: Easy Designer : Julia Hart
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Winter Heart Snowflake
The winter heart snowflake is a pretty 6-sided lacy figure that is ever so beautiful. Moreover, its gentle texture will be a great decoration into the New Year, not just at Christmas.
Skills: Easy Designer: Julia Heart
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Star-Shaped Free Crochet Snowflake Pattern Ideas
Sun Star Snowflake
This is a traditional star-shaped snowflake that’s a classic touch on any tree. Undoubtedly, this is a part of some of the most cherished Christmas memories.
Skills: Easy Designer: Renata Saj
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Flower Star Snowflake
This beautiful snowflake is full of a wintery chill. Thus, it will be absolutely ideal to put that touch of morning frost on your Christmas tree or wreath. Better still, it could also function as a coaster on a beautifully set table.
Skills: Easy Designer: Renata Saj
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Hanging Ornament Free Crochet Snowflake Pattern
Chain Loop Snowflake
This delicate piece is a gorgeous, lacy example of where your imagination can take the snowflake theme. Indeed, there is no limit.
Skills: Easy Designer: Coats & Clark
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Winter Flower Snowflake
Here is one that’s almost like marine knot work.
Skills: Easy Designer : Renata Saj
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Beautiful Lacy Snowflake Ornament
We can’t get enough of classic. Here are more lacy snowflakes if you can’t get enough of them either.
Skills: Intermediate Designer: Kathryn White
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Visit a free pattern page or go directly to Snowflake 1, Snowflake 2 or Snowflake 3.
Heart Snowflake
This crochet Heart Snowflake pattern will be perfect for winter birthdays and weddings or even Valentine’s Day. You can add it to a gift wrapping as a home made accent, but this romantic snowflake can be a gift by himself.
Skills: Easy Designer: Golden Lucy Crafts
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Snowflake Hanging Ornaments
Lastly, but not leastly :D, here are stretched snowflake ornaments. These are beautiful and delicate decorations that you can hang just about anywhere. What’s equally important is that they are reasonably thickly stitched, so they will be highly visible, especially on a contrasting background.
Skills: Easy Designer: Renata Saj
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Snowflake Ornament
Here is another snowflake ornament. This is also a classic…but with a twist in that it’s made with 5 points, rather than the traditional six. A further twist is the actual twist in the points as well.
Skills: Easy Designer: Kimiko Ami
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Winter Flowers Snowflake
Lastly, here is a floral snowflake, with the points replaced with petals. This is also a lacy, delicate pattern that is therefore great as an additional, ephemeral accent to a tree.
Skills: Easy Designer: Yarn Time Now
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Zeta Snowflake
If you love snowflakes, but lacy items are too delicate for you, here’s a lit bit more solid design which you still can use as an ornament, as a potholder or applique as well.
Skills: Easy Designer: Crochets By Trista
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Snowflake Ornament
Skills: Easy Designer: Anna nitato Lolo
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Snowflake Bookmark
Skills: Easy Designer: Golden Lucy Crafts
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