Comments on: Crochet Pattern: Starburst Throw

By: Alena

Alena — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:25:32 +0000

Thank you Rachel. My sister will be so happy and I can hardly wait to get started.

By: Rachel Choi

Rachel Choi — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:38:18 +0000

Hi Alena, it looks like the pattern uses a multiple of 8 chains in the repeat, then adds 2 more chains. So you can make a chain as long as you want your blanket to be (57″) as long as the chain is a multiple of 8. Then add 2 more chains.

By: Alena

Alena — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:19:02 +0000

Hi, I want to try and make the Starburst Afghan for my sister. I have already bought the yarn but she want it to measure different the pattern. how do I change it? she wants a 57″ x 79″ how many to I cast on for that length?

By: Inge

Inge — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:23:03 +0000

Gave it an other try and its looking better, still got bigger openings than you do though and I don’t really understand what you mean by the border, is the 9dc’s supposed to go on all 4 sides? Cause you don’t really have middles of starbusts on the two vertical sides… I would just sc those all the way or won’t that look good?

By: Inge

Inge — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:16:15 +0000

I’ve been making amiguri for a while now and thought of starting something a bit more challeging but this keeps curling up and it looks nothing like in the picture.
I also seem to have a short blanket… How long is the chain of 130 supposed to be?

It’s a pitty I really liked this pattern!

By: Tera

Tera — Mon, 07 May 2012 23:48:01 +0000

yeah something is definitely wrong with row 2! when doing the (yo pull through 2 loops on hook 9x’x) it looks like a cluster stitch! Am I missing something here?

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:23:37 +0000

Row four states that the repeat starts from *1 sc in dc, ch 3, and so on. However, there is another sc in the same sequence, and crocheting the entire repeat as it is written throws the entire stitch count off, ending the row with far more sc than the pattern states there should be.

I’m assuming that the aterisk was just placed in the wrong spot and should have gone before the first ch 3, but if I’m wrong, please tell me why.

For the (yo pull up loop in next dc, yo and pull through two loops on hook) x times, I would suggest that the dc be replaced with st, as double crocheted stitches aren’t the only stitches that one is pulling loops from; there’s the single crochet in the middle of the nine repeats of the instruction, for example. Such a change might reduce confustion, but this is just a suggestion, though.

By: Amy M.

Amy M. — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:23:37 +0000

I had the same question as Connie I was also getting little bubbles I’m not exactly sure how i’m supposed to continue after I YO and pull through 2 loops 9x’s.

Please Help,
Amy M.

By: Melissa W.B.

Melissa W.B. — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:43:43 +0000

Thank you Erin! I am so glad to know that I wasn’t tanking for some unknown reason! Wootles! Will continue! Bernarda gets her Christmas after all!

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:08:01 +0000

Hi Melissa,

I suppose you could call the two separate parts of the starbursts ‘chunky bubbly shells’. Then when the two rows with the same color are finished, the starburst is created.

I just made this blanket for another client, this time in superwash merino wool and I had much better stitch definition.