Crochet Christmas Ornaments
Every Christmas I make one or two selfmade ornaments for our Christmas tree. Usually I do it with paper and try to attain a vintage look by finding inspiration in old ornaments for sale on the Internet. This year I tried to see what I could do with thin cotton yarn. This isn’t really my preferred type of yarn, because I can’t work fast with thin thread and a 2mm crochet hook.
I like the result: The ornaments from my pattern book are meant to be snowflakes. But made in red, and aheem… shaped a little crooked, they just do get this oldfashioned look, that will work well with our other things for the tree.
Patterns
From the Japanese crochet book: Motif and Edgings Designs. Bunka Publishing Bureau 2009.
Yarn
Marks & Kattens, Bianca in shade #49, 100% mercerized cotton. 50g/160m 1,75 oz/175 yards.
Hook
2mm US: B/1
The yarn is discontinued and good to work with: It didn’t split at all.
This morning the day started bright and sunny, – perfect for a fast photo shoot at the windows.
This looks like a little devil:
Lovely! I made a bunch of the snowflake ornaments a long time ago, for our tree. I used silver thread, which I loved. Starched them in old fashioned sugar water & stretched them out to dry. A fun project with kids.
I like to make the snowflakes as ornaments now………..and use them laying flat on top of a gift, that is wrapped in a solid color paper. I love the simple design………….and then the recipient has an ornament in addition to the gift.
What is your formula for the sugar water starch for the decorations?
I had a look at your snowflake ornaments on your blog. They are so pretty,- if I have the time I will try to make one before Christmas as a gift.
It is a lovely ornament and a very nice tradition that you are developing – to have some Xmas ornaments for yourself every year. I love to crochet Xmas ornaments for gifts. They are around my home until Xmas, but then they are all gifted to family and friends and finally there is none left. Maybe I should really change this trend this year…
Ah yes – I really like that you use charts for patterns – i find it to be the easiest way in any language :-)
Laura
I love your ornaments! it must be lovely on a christmas tree
I also think they will look great.
A happy Christmas time for you!
I really like your crocheted ornaments. Will you be sharing the patterns for them? The red will show up really nice on the tree. I bet they would be great in white too! Thank you for the great work you have been doing and sharing.
Hi Margaret,
I got these patterns from a book and sharing them on the Internet would violate against copyright laws.
You can make a Google image search for ‘free crochet pattern ornament’ and get some search results for patterns on the Internet. – Or try to search for Christmas ornament at http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/.
Hope you find something you like:-)
I was under the impression you had created these ornaments and was hoping you were going to share them with us.
Sorry for the mixup.
That’s a great idea to use the ornament as an additional gift for a Christmas present! They are fast to make and it gives it a personal touch when you add something handmade.
I didn’t use any stiffening method for the Christmas ornaments.The mercerised cotton is so stiff, that it was not needed. I have previuosly used a potato starch method,- you can read more about it in my Tips & Tutorials section. I guess sugar would attract insects, so I don’t use that.