Lollipop Star is my first design.

It’s a fun, funky design that reminds me of a swirly lollipop centre, within a 3D star.

It is really fun to make and I hope you find this too.

It is an intermediate pattern

The picture version has many helpful images and explanations.

Less than 1 skein of each colour of paintbox aran yarn required. I used 5 colours in my examples.

• US terms used throughout

• 12 inch square with aran weight yarn and a 5mm crochet hook. Using the recommended size hook for whichever yarn you choose will create a different sized square. I crochet quite tightly, so use a 5.5mm hook for my squares, then block out to size

Errata: 04-04-19 - new downloads will find the following corrections:

Round10: Join new colour with a standing sc in any sc after a ch2 sp
Round 17: sc in 1st st of any side, fptr around 1st round 15 st (at corner) sk st behind… at end of row: do not skip final st, instead make sc here.