Never Ending Christmas Tree

This pattern came to me a 2 years ago.  I didn't share it because I was trying to be too precise.  This is a loosey goosey style of pattern because once you finish the first row it can be different each time you make it.  I have shared pictures of 2 of the trees I've made.  I'm pretty sure you can make the tree as big as you want.  

Warning: this can be fiddly.

Never Ending Christmas Tree Vicki Clarke 2017

Materials

 Beads

Crochet hook with small tip

Green Thread (I used size 20 Lizbeth #687 in sample)

Shuttle or needle

Terms:

 FR- folded ring

SR- small ring

LR- large ring

lj-  lock join

bp- add bead to picot 

a- first half of the ds

b- 2^nd half of the ds

vsp- very small picot

String lots of beads on thread and then fill shuttle.  Cut from ball.

The bulk of this pattern is based of the basic Ankars motif of: 

*SR     5 – 5

LR         5+ (prev ring) 5 – 5 – 5*       

Note: I added 2 beads to the 2^nd picot of the large ring then joined the next rows between the beads.  I don’t think these show up so did not include this as part of the pattern.

Start with the tip of the tree:

FR 1    1 vsp  2a  4 2b p 8

*SR     5 – 5

LR       5+ (prev ring) 5 – 5 – 5*

Make * to * 4 times for wide tree

Make * to * 2 times for narrow tree

R         5 – 5

FR       8 +(p of 1^st FR) 1 2a 4 2b

Pull up as many beads needed to reach the 2^nd picot on the 1^st large ring, join to the 1^st large ring (this bridges you to the next row)

 *SR     5 – 5

LR         5+ (prev ring) 5 – 5 – 5

Join to the picot of the next large ring in the previous row*

So you will repeat the combo of [SR, LR join] until you have joined to all the 2^nd picots of the large ring on the row. 

Finish with a small ring then pull up as many beads on the thread that you need to reach the 2^nd picot of the first Large ring of the next row.

I have included pics of the back side of the wide and narrow trees so you can get an idea of how many repeats I did.

I did not always join between sets of SR, LR and the wider the tree gets the more likely you will have a few repeats before joining to the previous row.

This is a loosey goosey pattern that can go on forever….

Front of trees.  

Back of trees so you can see how many big rings I used for each row.