Arabian Nights crochet pattern

About a few years ago, I designed the Medina Mosaic Tiles, a pattern displaying the beautiful mosaic art found in the medinas throughout the Middle East. I have always been fascinated by Islamic geometric art, and it always intrigues me to discover new designs and motifs out of these wonderfully decorated walls and ceilings – primarily found in mosques. So, after the Medina mosaic tiles, I still had plenty of inspiration left on my mood board, and there was also the twelve-pointed star motif. It took me a long time to translate this motif into a crochet pattern, but finally, I was so happy with the result, which you can find in this pattern – Arabian Nights.

General information about the pattern:

crochet hook size 3.0mm needed

The pattern is made with Scheepjes Catona - a unmercerized cotton type that comes in balls of 10, 25, and 50 grams. For this pattern, this is ideal as the motifs are basically built up out of five colors, of which you all need small amounts. Besides these five colors for each motif there are two basic colors - black and white. I created 7 different color combinations for the motifs. As there is a lot of colors used, please refer to the pattern to see all the details of how they are combined and which color belongs to which motif. I will give you a color-picking list with totals here:

Color picking list for his pattern:

110 Jet Black - 525 grams
253 Tropic – 16 grams
524 Apricot - 10 grams
514 Jade – 14 grams
386 Peach - 13 grams
401 Dark Teal - 12 grams
281 Tangerine – 23 grams
392 Lime Juice – 6 grams
189 Royal Orange - 18 grams
513 Apple Granny - 8 grams
388 Rust - 15 grams
389 Apple Green – 13 grams
173 Bluebell – 8 grams
515 Emerald - 11 grams
384 Powder Blue – 10 grams
525 Fir - 8 grams
510 Skye Blue – 16 grams
509 Baby Blue - 21 grams
201 Electric Blue - 14 grams
397 Cyan - 23 grams
527 Midnight - 12 grams
146 Vivid Blue - 18 grams
385 Crystalline - 23 grams
400 Petrol Blue - 15 grams
404 English Tea - 10 grams
101 Candle Light - 8 grams
257 Antique Mauve - 13 grams
522 Primrose - 10 grams
506 Caramel – 23 grams
208 Yellow Gold – 16 grams
157 Root beer – 18 grams
249 Saffron – 14 grams
507 Chocolate – 15 grams
179 Topaz – 12 grams
105 Bridal White – 100 grams

the patterns hold very clear written instructions on how to create whole and half motifs for this pattern and the way how to connect them. Besides the written instructions, you find many photos to guide you through this pattern. Charts or videos are not available.

the size of the pattern will be 35 x 39 inches in the given amount of motifs. One motif will measure 12 x 12 inches when the suggested type of yarn is used.

available in English (US terms) and Dutch.

-after purchase, you receive a PDF digital download file to download in any language available.


There was a small errata found in the Dutch version of this pattern on 27/06. In R13 there was stated: 1st in vl van vlg 3 stk. This must be: 1st in al van vlg 3 stk. After this date, the digital pattern was updated.

In the Dutch version, there was also a wrong picture on R17. This is updated in the meantime.