Windspinner Spiral

This is a written pattern for a windspinner. The pattern includes some pictures to show how it should look like. The level is experienced beginner, the crocheting isn’t difficult, the final shaping might be a little bit challenging. For this windspinner I used acrylic yarn: Stylecraft Special dk or similar, which is about 300 meter/328 yards per 100 gram. I used hooksize 3.0 I needed 51 meter/ 56 yards of yarn, plus the yarn for the balls. I used 8 different colors for the rainbow version. This windspinner is about 9.5 cm/ 3.74 inches wide and 23 cm/ 9.1 inches in length. Other materials needed: -craftwire: you need more than 150 cm/59 inches, I used wire of 1 mm thickness -for the 7 little balls: Or: 6 beads of 3 cm/1.18 inches diameter and 1 bead that’s a little bit smaller Or: pillowstuffing, in that case you need to crochet the balls Or: crochet the balls and use beads as stuffing: 6 beads of 25 mm/1 inch diameter and 1 of 20 mm/0.79 inches diameter Stitches and (US-) terms used in this pattern: - ch = chainstitch - foundation chain - slst = slipstitch - sc = single crochet - decr = decrease - incr = increase - blo = in backloop only - flo = in frontloop only Short videos of my windspinners are on Instagram: @kleinevos70