Bring red and green to your holiday table with this Christmas Star Crochet Table Mat. The design starts with a round red center, adds a green section with small picots, and finishes with eight red points.
Place it beneath a small vase or Christmas figurine, or use it as the base for a seasonal arrangement. The optional hanging loop gives you another way to display it once your table is set.
The construction combines two familiar approaches: joined rounds for the center and short rows for the points. Each point follows the same decreasing sequence, so marking the sections before you begin makes the instructions easier to follow.
Below you’ll find the materials, stitch counts, complete pattern, and practical tips for keeping track of the eight points.
Pattern Overview
- Skill level: Advanced beginner
- Terminology: US crochet terms
- Construction: Joined rounds followed by individually worked points
- Finished size: Approximately 8–10 inches (20–25 cm), depending on yarn, hook size, and tension
- Use: Decorative table mat or hanging decoration
Materials
- Worsted-weight 100% cotton yarn in red and green
- 4.0 mm crochet hook
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
- Stitch markers
- Blocking pins and blocking mat, optional
Cotton is a useful choice for a decorative mat because it gives the stitches definition. Choose red and green yarns of the same weight to keep the two sections consistent.
This project is intended as table decoration, rather than protection for handling hot cookware.
Abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ch | Chain |
| sl st | Slip stitch |
| sc | Single crochet |
| hdc | Half double crochet |
| dc | Double crochet |
| st | Stitch |
| sts | Stitches |
| MR | Magic ring |
| rep | Repeat |
| rnd | Round |
| sp | Space |
| hdc2tog | Half double crochet 2 stitches together |
| hdc3tog | Half double crochet 3 stitches together |
Special Stitches
Picot
Ch 3, then sl st into the first chain made.
These small chain details decorate the green section. They are counted separately from the single crochet stitches.
hdc2tog
Yarn over, insert the hook into the next stitch, yarn over, and pull up a loop. Yarn over, insert the hook into the following stitch, yarn over, and pull up a loop.
Yarn over and pull through all five loops on the hook.
hdc3tog
Yarn over, insert the hook into the next stitch, yarn over, and pull up a loop. Repeat this action in each of the next two stitches.
Yarn over and pull through all seven loops on the hook.
Important Pattern Notes
- Work the center in joined rounds.
- Do not turn unless instructed.
- Beginning chains do not count as stitches.
- Join each round with a slip stitch into its first stitch.
- The eight red points are worked separately after the green section.
- When dividing the green section, count the 72 single crochet stitches only. Do not include the picot chains.
- Keep your tension consistent across all eight points.
Christmas Star Crochet Table Mat Pattern
Red Center
Using red yarn, make a magic ring.
Round 1
Ch 2. Work 12 dc into the MR.
Pull the magic ring closed. Join with sl st to the first dc.
Stitch count: 12 dc.
Round 2
Ch 2. Work 2 dc in each stitch around. Join with sl st to the first dc.
Stitch count: 24 dc.
Round 3
Ch 2. Repeat around.
Join with sl st to the first dc.
Stitch count: 36 dc.
Round 4
Ch 2. Repeat around.
Join with sl st to the first dc.
Stitch count: 48 dc.
Fasten off red.
Green Section
Join green yarn in any stitch.
Round 5
Ch 1. Repeat around.
Join with sl st to the first sc.
Stitch count: 56 sc.
Round 6
Ch 1. Repeat around.
Join with sl st to the first sc.
Stitch count: 64 sc.
Round 7
Ch 1. Repeat around.
Join with sl st to the first sc.
Stitch count: 72 sc.
Round 8 — Decorative Picots
Ch 1. Repeat the following sequence 8 times:
Sc in next 4 stitches, picot, sc in next 5 stitches.
Join with sl st to the first sc.
Stitch count: 72 sc + 8 picots.
Fasten off green.
Eight Red Star Points
Divide the 72 single crochet stitches into 8 consecutive sections of 9 stitches each.
Place a marker in the first stitch of each section before beginning. The picot chains are decorative and are not part of these nine-stitch bases.
Point 1
Join red yarn in the first stitch of one nine-stitch section.
Row 1
Ch 2. Hdc in the same stitch and in each of the next 8 single crochet stitches, skipping the decorative picot chains.
