About Favorite Christmas Ornament 2024
This year’s Favorite Christmas Ornament ❤️
Crocheting for me is a bit like comfort food: the soft, woolly yarn and the stitches, which are comfortable to make for the hands, are absolutely perfect, when you need a little extra selfcare.
2024 has been one of the tougher years to get through. I’ve needed a lot of hugs, and that’s why the Christmas Ornament is designed to look like a woolly sweater. Handmade love. A hug from the crochet hook. Like a trip to a holiday house in wintertime: It’s windy and cold outside, so you bundle up, in front of the fireplace and “hygger” with your family in woolen socks – and that good old woolly sweater, that just feels amazing.
Make lots of them and send them to all your loved ones, you want to hug a little extra this Christmas 🎄🤗❤️
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Crochet Time: 1-1.5 hours
Skill level: Medium
Height: 7 cm
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Before you get started
Half double crochet in the 3rd loop
Step 1
Normally you would make your stitch here at the top of the row – you don’t do that here.
Step 2
Instead, you have to turn your piece, so that you come down the side of the stitch, and go into the loop that is just below the front loop – where my crochet hook is in here.
Step 3
Here you make your half double crochet (hdc): Yarn over, insert your hook in the 3rd loop …
Step 4
… yarn over, pull through. Now you have 3 loops on your hook: Yarn over and pull through all 3 loops on your hook. You have just made a hdc in the 3rd loop 👏
Slanted Puff Stitches
Step 1
Skip 1 stitch and make a single crochet in the next one (where the needle is).
Step 2
Now you need to go back and crochet in the stitch you skipped – as shown here with the needle. This is how they become slanted.
Step 3
Here you make your Puff Stitch: Yarn over, insert your hook in the stitch, yarn over and pull through. Repeat 2 more times so you have a total of 7 loops on the hook. Try to pull the yarn up as evenly as possible the 3 times you do it.
Step 4
Yarn over and pull through all 7 loops on your hook. You can twist your hook a little and pull the hook up and away from the piece, so that it slides through more easily. It may need your patience, the first many times you do it – it will get easier, the more times you do it 🙏🤗
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I have made a video showing the stitches and techniques I use along the way. It can also be a good support.
(Remember to turn on US subtitles 🇺🇸🌏)
Pattern for the Favorite Christmas Ornament 2024
Chain: ch
Turning chain: tch
Single Crochet: SC
Back Loop Only: BLO
Half Double Crochet : HCD
Puff Stitch: PS
START Longer starting end (approx. 30-40 cm – used for sewing, when you have finished crocheting) and then 26 ch + 1 tch (turning chains do not need to be crocheted in again, so skip it and start in the 2nd stitch from the hook), turn.
ROW 1 1 sc in the back loop only (not here in the foundation chain, but when you need to repeat this row), 24 hdc, 1 sc in blo, 1 tch, turn.
ROW 2-4 1 sc in blo, 24 hdc in the 3rd loop, 1 sc in blo, 1 tch, turn.
ROW 5-6 1 sc in blo, (skip 1 stitch, 1 sc in the next stitch, 1 puff stitch in the skipped stitch) x 12, 1 sc in blo (without skipping 1 stitch), 1 tch, turn.
Repeat rows 1-6 until you have 30 rows in total.
The piece will be approx. 8-9 cm in width and 16-17 cm in height with my crochet gauge. If your piece does not get the same measurements: No stress. As long as your height is approx. twice the size of your width, they will be neatly round ornaments ❤️
Gather uuuup!
Step 1
Place your piece in front of you, so that you have your long starting end at the top right corner with the front side facing up (the side where there are 2 lines between the braids).
Step 2
Sew together to make a tube:
Fold the ends together over the piece, so you have your front inside.
Sew through the stitch on the end closest to you.
Step 3
Sew up in your foundation chain …
Step 4
… and then around the stitch in the foundation chain, so that you sew along the side of it. That makes it invisible, where you have assembled the ornament.
When the entire tube is sewn together, sew a knot so that it stays tight.
Step 5
Now you sew around one end with some nice big stitches, so that the end can be gathered. Pull it together to close the hole and sew a knot.
Step 6
Bring the thread to the front, and turn the inside out, so that you are now sewing from the front. Sew some rough stitches around and sew a knot to hold it in place. When you’re done, pull the thread into the ball and it’s closed off.
Step 7
Now the other end must be gathered: Cut a piece of yarn and sew with rough stitches around the edge.
Step 8
Fill it WELL, so that it is firm and nice.Tighten well as you press the filling into the ball. Tie a knot and now sew again to gather it neatly. Finally, a strap is inserted so that it can be hung up nicely 🎄
Wow. Wow. WOW! 😍
Look! At what you’ve made with your skilled hands! Congrats and enjoy it for a little moment, before you get started on the next 😍💪❤️
I have made some helpful videos that should make it easier for you to understand the pattern. It’s just usually easier in live pictures 🙂 All videos are made and edited by Milla Billa. Music by www.bensound.com
