To ring in the new year, a firework bursting into a star on a royal-blue sky. The centre is red and white and the yellow rays shoot out in eight directions.
The chart is 15 stitches by 15 rows. The diagonal rays place only one yellow stitch per row, which needs attention but little yarn. A white stitch in two corners stands for the sparks.
Mounted on a square of felt it becomes an original greetings card; repeated, a border for a New Year's Eve tablecloth. For a deeper night sky, swap the royal blue for navy or black.
