Health and Adaptability Snowflakes; Snowfall 2025 CAL Contemplations, Day 5

Today’s snowflakes for the Crochet A-Long / Make A-long are the Health and Adaptability Snowflakes. The Health snowflake pattern is free below. The Adaptability Snowflake pattern is exclusive to the eBook available on Ravelry and Etsy.

If you purchase the eBook you will get all 12 patterns right away.

Related Links

• Visit the Ravelry page for the Health Snowflake and add it to your queue.
• Visit the Ravelry page for the Adaptability Snowflake and purchase the eBook.
• Visit the Etsy Shop to purchase the eBook.
• Main information Page Snowfall CAL 2025: Contemplations

Pattern Support

Video Tutorials: Complete video tutorials will be available on my YouTube Channel for Strength, Respect, Attitude, Health, and Self-Control. They will be available when they are ready.

Jessica Wifall’s Crochet Studio: This is the group where I will be hosting this year’s Snowflake CAL/MAL. Joining the group is not required to participate but it is a great place to ask questions of me and the community and share your creations and works in progress.

Materials

1.2-3.5g per snowflake of Scheepjes Maxi Sweet Treat (100% Mercerised Cotton; 25g/140m)

OR Scheepjes Maxi Sugar Rush (100% Mercerised Cotton; 100g/560m)

Sweet Treats and Sugar Rush are the same thread just in different quantities. I have the larger quantity in white.

1.5mm crochet hook for thread or the crochet hook size that works best for you and your materials

Materials to stiffen snowflakes (See Instructions Here)

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Gauge and Measurements

Gauge is not critical for this project, the size of your snowflakes will be affected by your thread size, crochet hook, and tension.  The samples I made with the listed materials are between 3.25-5 inches (5-12.5 cm). 

The Contemplations

Each snowflake in this set is named after a life skill or attribute. Today’s snowflakes and today’s contemplations are Health and Adaptability.

The Health snowflake is named as such because it is the one I was working on when I came up with the theme for this set. I was recovering from surgery at the time (all good now, horary for no more endometriosis pain). Health is difficult because there is so much to it that we often can’t control, as a result “health” is going to be different for everyone. I will try and take care of my body to the best of my ability, but things can still go wrong. People have to deal with lumps and bumps, diseases, disorders, conditions, age, whatever else might come up. All I can do is my best, get my regular scans and jabs and hope I get lucky with the rest.

I paired Health and Adaptability because I was specifying thinking about how we have to adapt to changes in health over time. My health at 40 is not the same as at 30 or 20 and I have to adapt to my own needs. I also think that it goes the other way too, when I take better care of myself, I am better able to adapt to changes and challenges.

Adaptability the snowflake was one of the few I designed with its name already in mind (the others I then decided which name fit them best). I have made this snowflake pattern adaptable. It can be made as written exactly or I have included instructions for switching around the flourishes and points. You could also get really creative and switch out the flourishes for bits from other snowflakes. you could add the stacked circles from appreciation or the branches from Perseverance or even bits from other sets. I would love to see how you adapt this snowflake for yourself.

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Crochet Abbreviations

US terms used throughout.

• BLO Back Loop Only
• ch chain
• ch-1 sp(s) chain 1 space(s): number denotes number of chains in chain space
• ch-sp(s) chain space(s)
• ss slip stitch(es)
• sc single crochet
• hdc half double crochet
• dc double crochet
• 2dc-cl 2 treble crochet cluster: * YO, insert hook in st/sp indicated, YO, pull up loop, YO, draw through 2 loops; repeat from * once more in same st/sp (3 loops on hook), YO, draw through all loops
• tr treble crochet
• 2tr-cl 2 treble crochet cluster: * YO twice, insert hook in st/sp indicated, YO, pull up loop, (YO, draw through 2 loops) two times; repeat from * once more in same st/sp (3 loops on hook), YO, draw through all loops
• dtr double treble crochet: YO 3 times, insert hook in st/sp indicated, YO, pull up loop, (YO, draw through 2 loops) 4 times
• dtrtr double triple treble crochet: YO 5 times, insert hook in st/sp indicated, YO, pull up loop, (YO, draw through 2 loops) 6 times
• sk skip(ped)
• st(s) stitch(es)
• YO yarn over

Repeat Formats

*…….; rep from * once more/twice more/3 more times

Work instructions after * and then repeat that section as specified.

(…….) twice/3 times

Work instructions between brackets the total number of times stated.

Pattern Notes

Double Magic Ring: just like a normal Magic Ring with the exception of wrapping the yarn twice at the beginning instead of once.  If preferred, a standard Magic Ring can be used instead.

Back Bump: the back bump is behind the front and back loop of the chain. This is sometimes referred to as the third loop.

Stiffening Snowflakes: these have been designed to be firmly stiffened, instructions are included on pages 10-13.

Pattern Support

Video Tutorials: Complete video tutorials are available on my YouTube Channel for Strength, Respect, Attitude, Health, and Self-Control.

Jessica Wifall’s Crochet Studio: come join my Facebook group to ask questions, share your work and get extra information.  

Copyright

Copyright © 2025 by Jessica Wifall.  All rights reserved.

Please do not sell, redistribute, or edit this pattern in anyway.  You may sell the finished products but please credit me as the designer of the pattern.

Tips for Reading these Patterns

Where does that stitch go?  When the location that the stitch goes is not specified it always goes in the next stitch of the prior round.  For example: “3sc” means make 1sc in each of the next 3 stitches.  

The next round doesn’t always start where the prior round began.  This is written into the pattern, so don’t panic.  However, it explains why some rounds may end with instructions such as “ch1, 1sc in first hdc [counts as last ch2- sp]”, this is how we are able to start the next round in the middle of a ch-sp without cutting the thread. 

Health Snowflake Instructions

Approximately 4in/10cm

Make a double magic ring

Round 1: ch1, in magic ring: (1sc, ch2) 5 times, 1sc, 1sc in first sc [counts as last ch2-sps]. Pull magic ring tight.
(6 sc, 6 ch2- sps)

Round 2: ch2, [counts as first dc], 1dc around the post of sc that is counting as a ch-sp, * 2dc in next ch-sp, ch5, 2dc in same ch-sp; repeat from * 4 more times, 2dc in next ch-sp, ch2, 1dc in the second ch of first dc [this counts as last 3-ch of last ch5-sp].
(24 dc, 6 ch5- sps)

Round 3: ch1, 1sc around the post of dc that is counting as a ch-sp, ch3 [counts as first tr], * (ch7, 1tr, ch5, 1tr) in same ch-sp,
(1tr, ch5, 1tr) in next ch-sp; repeat from * 5 more times omitting the last tr, ss in the third ch of first tr.
(24 tr, 6 ch7- sps, 12 ch5- sps)

Round 4: * working in the ch-7 sp – (2sc, 2hdc, 1dc, 1tr, ch9, ss in the ninth ch from hook forming a loop, 1tr, 1dc, 2hdc, 2sc), working in the next ch-5 sp – (2sc, ch9, ss in the ninth ch from hook forming a loop, 4sc), working in the next ch-5 sp – (4sc, ch9, ss in the ninth ch from hook forming a loop, 2sc); repeat from * 5 more times, ss in the first sc. Fasten off and sew in ends.
(12 tr, 12 dc, 24 hdc, 96 sc, 18 ch9- loops)

Fasten off and sew in ends.   Stiffen Snowflake using instructions in this post.

Need More Snowflakes?

If you want more snowflakes or just can’t wait to get started, please visit my Snowflake Pattern Index for more patterns.