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Starry night alpha bracelet pattern

Golden five-pointed stars set alternately left and right on a dark navy night sky, with tiny white twinkles.

Preview of the finished starry night alpha bracelet pattern
How it looks finished (rendered from the chart)
Pattern details
Size12 × 30 knots
Colours3 · DMC
Total knots360
DifficultyEasy (2/5)
Finished size0.6 × 2.4 in (1.6 × 6 cm)
Strings12 base strings + 3 colours
LicenceCC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit

Materials

ColourCodeNameKnotsShareAmount
823Navy Blue Dark24267%242 knots · ~3.7 m
726Topaz Light10529%105 knots · ~1.8 m
BLANCWhite134%13 knots · ~0.5 m

About this design

The stars are DMC 726 Topaz Light, a warm golden yellow that glows against 823 Navy Blue Dark. Each one is seven rows tall with a single point at the top, wide arms across the middle and two legs at the bottom, and the stars shift slightly from side to side down the band so the bracelet does not look rigid. Single White knots are scattered through the navy background as distant twinkling stars. With only three colours, it is a good choice for a first picture pattern.

Setting up and knotting

A 12-knot-wide bracelet needs 12 base strings, plus one working string in each of the 3 colours. Cut the working strings at least a metre long and wind them on bobbins or card so they stay untangled. Each square of the chart is one knot on a base string: forward knots on rows worked left to right, backward knots on rows worked right to left, row by row from the top. The white twinkles are single knots; mark them on the printed chart so you remember to switch colours.

Length and finishing

At roughly 2 mm per row, the 30-row chart makes about 6 cm of bracelet. Knotting the chart three times (90 rows) gives about 18 cm, which fits most adult wrists; stop sooner for a child. Finish with a braided tie or a sliding knot at each end so it can be adjusted.

Colour chart for starry night alpha bracelet pattern with a bold line every 5
Colour chart preview. The PDF adds symbols, row and column numbers and the full key.

Colour plan

DMC 823 Navy Blue Dark does the most work, 67% of the 360 knots, followed by DMC 726 Topaz Light at 29%. Every colour is used at least 13 times, so there are no tiny one-off details to hunt for. Every square of the grid is filled.

Working notes

It is 30 knot rows of 12 knots; the busiest row changes colour 6 times. 14 squares stand alone in their colour, with no same-coloured neighbour along a side.

Anchor equivalents

The nearest Anchor colour for each DMC colour in this pattern, measured as ΔE 2000: up to 3 is very close, up to 6 close, up to 10 approximate.

DMCAnchor
BLANC 926 ΔE 0.4 · very close
823 149 ΔE 3.1 · close
726 297 ΔE 2.7 · very close

Row by row

All 30 rows written out, row 1 at the top, where you start knotting
  • Row 1 (left to right, forward knots): 1 BLANC, 5 823, 1 726, 5 823
  • Row 2 (right to left, backward knots): 4 823, 3 726, 5 823
  • Row 3 (left to right, forward knots): 2 823, 9 726, 1 823
  • Row 4 (right to left, backward knots): 1 BLANC, 1 823, 7 726, 3 823
  • Row 5 (left to right, forward knots): 4 823, 5 726, 3 823
  • Row 6 (right to left, backward knots): 2 823, 3 726, 1 823, 3 726, 3 823
  • Row 7 (left to right, forward knots): 3 823, 2 726, 3 823, 2 726, 2 823
  • Row 8 (right to left, backward knots): 12 823
  • Row 9 (left to right, forward knots): 12 823
  • Row 10 (right to left, backward knots): 1 823, 1 BLANC, 10 823
  • Row 11 (left to right, forward knots): 5 823, 1 726, 1 BLANC, 5 823
  • Row 12 (right to left, backward knots): 5 823, 3 726, 1 823, 1 BLANC, 2 823
  • Row 13 (left to right, forward knots): 1 823, 9 726, 2 823
  • Row 14 (right to left, backward knots): 3 823, 7 726, 2 823
  • Row 15 (left to right, forward knots): 3 823, 5 726, 4 823
  • Row 16 (right to left, backward knots): 2 823, 1 BLANC, 3 726, 1 823, 3 726, 2 823
  • Row 17 (left to right, forward knots): 2 823, 2 726, 1 823, 1 BLANC, 1 823, 2 726, 3 823
  • Row 18 (right to left, backward knots): 10 823, 1 BLANC, 1 823
  • Row 19 (left to right, forward knots): 12 823
  • Row 20 (right to left, backward knots): 12 823
  • Row 21 (left to right, forward knots): 6 823, 1 726, 5 823
  • Row 22 (right to left, backward knots): 3 823, 1 BLANC, 3 726, 5 823
  • Row 23 (left to right, forward knots): 2 823, 9 726, 1 823
  • Row 24 (right to left, backward knots): 2 823, 7 726, 2 823, 1 BLANC
  • Row 25 (left to right, forward knots): 4 823, 5 726, 3 823
  • Row 26 (right to left, backward knots): 2 823, 3 726, 1 823, 3 726, 3 823
  • Row 27 (left to right, forward knots): 3 823, 2 726, 3 823, 2 726, 1 823, 1 BLANC
  • Row 28 (right to left, backward knots): 4 823, 1 BLANC, 7 823
  • Row 29 (left to right, forward knots): 3 823, 1 BLANC, 8 823
  • Row 30 (right to left, backward knots): 12 823

This is an original CraftPatterns design, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0: stitch it, share it and gift what you make — please credit craftpatterns.app and don't sell the pattern itself. Want to change it? Open it in the alpha bracelet editor.

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