I tried out a couple of those crochet patterns from the free links list. Here is the “first snowflake pattern”:http://www.texasdg.net/daynascrochet/pattern.asp?id=21 I tried:

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I also had a shot at “another pattern”:http://www.jpfun.com/patterns/03ornaments/prettysnowflake.shtml , the end result doesn’t look like their picture, maybe because I haven’t blocked it yet:

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The second one is really pretty – not sure why its not looking too great in the photo! It measures a good six inches across as well!

Both have instructions in american notation (see my rant about “crochet dialects”:/posts/2007/crochet-dialects for a bit more background) so approach with care – I can translate them if needs be.