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Ghostly Advent · advent calendar pack
An advent calendar in filet crochet: twenty-four small ornaments, one for each day of December, each shaped like its motif and each with a Victorian story that carries a little shiver. Starch them and hang them on the tree, or in a window where the light comes through the lace.
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Pre-sale price until 30 November: €8.90, then €11.90. From 1 December the free calendar opens one window a day; the pack has all 24 now, so you can start before December.
- Skill level
- Intermediate
- Size
- from about 5.2 × 13.5 cm to 10.8 × 16.5 cm before the edging (13–27 meshes wide, 21–33 rows)
- Yarn
- cotton crochet thread size 10, white or ecru, about 600 m for all 24 (three 50 g balls)
- Hook or needles
- 1.5 mm crochet hook; pins, a board and starch for shaping
- Gauge
- 25 meshes and 20 rows = 10 cm, blocked
- Files
- PDF · English · 52 pages
About this pattern
A bell with goblins in its tower, Blue Beard’s key, the cap Scrooge pressed down on the Ghost of Christmas Past, a pudding like a speckled cannon-ball, a snapdragon bowl, a hooded spectre, an owl, a fox, the man in the moon, and a wreath for Christmas Eve. Every ornament has its own short story, built on a real Victorian book, custom or belief.
Each ornament is worked flat from the bottom up and shaped as you go, with meshes added and dropped at the ends of the rows; six of them finish in parts at the top, like ears or lobes. A picot edging goes all round, a chain loop hangs it up, and starch keeps it crisp.
From 1 to 24 December one window a day opens on the Ghostly Advent calendar, and that day’s chart is free for that one day. The pack has all 24 at once, to print and keep.
The charts and the row-by-row texts have been checked against each other, mesh by mesh, but the ornaments haven’t been made from this PDF yet: if anything needs fixing, the corrected version reaches you for free through your download link.
What's inside
- 24 charts, with numbered rows and the hanging loop marked
- Every row written out, mesh by mesh, including the tops worked in parts
- 24 Victorian stories, one for each day
- Materials, filet basics, shaping at the edges, picot edging, the hanging loop and starching
Learn the techniques
Free step-by-step guides with drawings, for this pattern and any other chart. All guides
Filet crochet basics
How to Read a Filet Crochet Chart
Learn to read any filet crochet chart: what the squares mean in stitches, where row 1 starts, which way each row goes and how many chains to make. Drawn out step by step.
Filet crochet basics
Adding and Removing Meshes at the Edges
How to increase and decrease in filet crochet: add or remove meshes at either end of a row, drawn out step by step.
Finishing
How to Starch and Shape Crochet Lace
How to block crochet lace and starch it: wet it, roll it in a towel, pin it out flat or over a bowl, starch it and let it dry.
Questions
Is this a finished item?
No. This is a digital PDF pattern for you to make it yourself. Nothing is posted to you.
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Can I sell what I make?
Yes, you can sell what you make by hand from this pattern. Please don't share or resell the PDF itself.
