Crochet for Christmas: 29 Patterns for Handmade Holiday Decorations and Gifts

By Salena Baca

Decorate your home for the holidays with festive crocheted decorations, ornaments, and Christmas cozies! Need a quick holiday gift? This book has you covered there, too, with cute crocheted hats, cowls, and other accessories that work up in a jiffy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Release date: Jul 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9780811762694

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Contents

Introduction

Silver & Spice Hood

Catching Stars Shawl

Fair Isle Hedgehog

North Star Cowl

Cozy Christmas Countdown

Fallen Snow Runner or Ornament

Christmas Tree iPad Cozy

Mason Jar Cozies

NOEL Pillow Covers

Winter Wishes Hat & Mittens

Reindeer Basket

Angel, Santa’s Helper, & Snowman Ornaments

Christmas Lights Coffee Cup Sleeve

Penguin Ornaments

Poinsettia Topiary

Snowman Wreath

Glamour Top

Christmas Eve Cowl

Holly Berry Christmas Sweater

Two-Tone Boot Cuffs

Snowflake Headband

Winter Waves Slippers

Braided Cables Christmas Stocking

Berries & Branches Tree Skirt

Holly & Ivy Kissing Ball

Snowfall Cardigan

Cool Night Arm Warmers

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

I've crocheted my entire life, and it’s always been one of my defining qualities. I am the girl who crochets! After years of practice, I’ve evolved my passion into a career; I’ve designed dozens of crochet patterns both professionally and under my own brand (Salena Baca Crochet).

A few years ago I decided to form a group with other ecommerce crochet designers. We focus on new yarns, designing crochet patterns, and networking; we are the Design Wars Challengers (designwarschallenge.com). This group has produced over 100 crochet patterns in the past two years, and we’ve grown a massive audience that follows our weekly design battles, too. We also work together to collaborate outside our online marketplaces, and this collection, Crochet for Christmas, is our debut publication!

These designs really feature our individual talents, specialties, styles, and tastes. There are patterns at every skill level (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), and they vary from quick and easy to detailed and beautifully intricate. We’ve created 29 patterns that will make your hearth, home, tree, table, and wardrobe much more festive for the holiday season.

Christmas is the perfect occasion for crocheting items to give or keep, and we hope that Crochet for Christmas will become your go-to resource this time of year, for many years to come.

Salena Baca

Girls of all ages will be warm for the holidays with this festive hood! The chunky yarn works up quick, and the simple texture adds a fashionable look that you can enjoy for years to come.

SKILL LEVEL

Easy

SIZES/FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

Toddler (Child, Adult)

17 × 8 (20 × 9, 23 × 10)"/43 × 20 (51 × 23, 58 × 25) cm

YARN

Lion Brand Yarn Wool-Ease Chunky, bulky weight #5yarn (80% acrylic, 20% wool; 153 yd./150 m per 5oz./140 g skein)

• 2 skeins Color A (Adult hat shown in Spice, Child hat shown in Silver)

• 1 skein Color B (pom-poms for both sizes shown in Natural)

HOOK & OTHER MATERIALS

• US K-10 ½ (6.5 mm) crochet hook

• 1.5" Pom-Pom Maker (optional)

GAUGE

10 sts × 7 rows = 4"/10 cm square

Adjust hook size if necessary to obtain gauge.

SPECIAL STITCHES

Three Double Crochet Cluster (3dc cluster)

[Yo, insert hook into indicated st, yo and pull back through st, yo and pull through first 2 loops on hook] 3 times, yo and pull through all 4 loops on hook.

Hood

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Chain 42 (50, 58).

Row 1 (RS): With Color A, sc into second ch from hook and each ch across—41 (49, 57) sc.

Row 2 (WS): Ch 1 (not a st), turn, work 1 3dc cluster into first st, [ch 1, sk 1 st, work 1 3dc cluster into following st] 19 (23, 27) times—41 (49, 57) sts, or 20 (24, 28) 3dc clusters.

Row 3: Ch 1 (not a st), turn, work 1 sc into each st across—41 (49, 57) sts.

Repeat Rows 2 and 3 respectively until Row 15 (17, 19) is complete.

Seam, to form the hood: Fold Row 15 (17, 19) in half, assuring WS is facing outward. Sl st row together using the back loops only. Fasten off, and turn hat RS out.

Border

Rnd 1: Join Color A into seam formed when Row 15 (17, 19) was joined. Work 3 sc into every sc end row from hood until Row 1 of hood reached. First crochet tie: Ch 21 (25, 29), hdc into second ch from hook and each across. Sc across Row 1 of hood. Second crochet tie: Ch 21 (25, 29), hdc into second ch from hook and each across. Work 3 sc into every sc end row from hood. Sl st to join, fasten off.

Finishing

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Make three pom-poms from Color B. Attach one to the end of each crochet tie, and one to the top seam of the hood.

ABOUT SALENA BACA

I learned to crochet before grade school and have had a passion for the art ever since. After crocheting in the closet until my mid-twenties, my crochet world was rocked when I discovered Ravelry and found that there was an entire world of crocheters to connect with! I began designing patterns that appealed to my own style in late 2009, and my work has been published in various craft and crochet magazines since. In late 2012, I formed the Design Wars Challenge, which is a worldwide network and design challenge for independent crochet designers. I live in Oregon with my husband and two kids, and I’m very fond of black licorice, Scrabble, felt-tipped pens, hiking, and road trips.

Salena’s Favorite Christmas Memory

I was born and raised in Hawaii—a great vacation spot but not ideal to spark the Christmas spirit. Our family celebrated every year, but when it’s 75 degrees outside you can’t really grasp the Christmas feel. Just after my twelfth birthday, our family moved to Georgia. Then, for the first time in my whole life, Christmas was cold and frosty, and the holiday took on an entirely different feel! We had turkey and ham, cookies and hot drinks! We listened to Christmas music, exchanged presents, stayed up very late, and laughed for hours together. That first Christmas on the mainland (with our aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cool weather) was everything I imagined it should be.

This shawl is both a perfect present and a great addition to your holiday outfit. If you look closely, you’ll see little stars all over this stitch pattern, but you can wear this pretty wrap any season! This pattern works great with variegated yarns, too.

SKILL LEVEL

Intermediate

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

59 × 35/150 × 90 cm

YARN

Red Heart Shimmer, medium weight #4 yarn (97%acrylic, 3% metallic; 280 yd./256 m per 3.5 oz./100 g skein)

• 2 skeins Ivory

HOOK & OTHER MATERIALS

• US J-10 (6 mm) crochet hook

• Yarn Needle

GAUGE

Approximately 3 stars × 5 rows = 4"/10 cm square

Gauge is not critical for this project.

SPECIAL STITCHES

Two Treble Cluster (2tr-cluster)

*Yo twice, insert hook, yo and pull up a loop (yo and pull through 2 loops on hook) twice, you should now have 2 loops on your hook, now sk 2 sts, and rep from * to * 1 more time, you should now have 3 loops on your hook, yo and pull through remaining 3 loops.

Shawl

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Row 1: Start with an adjustable ring. Ch 3 (counts as first stitch throughout this pattern), 3 dc in the ring— 4dc.

Row 2: Turn, ch 3, 2 dc in same st as ch 3, dc 2, 3 dc in 3rd ch of ch 3 from previous row—8 dc.

Row 3: Turn, ch 3, 2 tr in same st as ch 3, ch 3, sk 1, 2trcluster, ch 3, sk 1, 3 tr in 3rd ch of ch 3 from previous row.

Row 4: Turn, ch 3, 2 tr in same st as ch 3, ch 3, sk 5 (actually 2 tr and 3 ch), tr in the space of the 2trcluster, ch 2, tr in same space, ch 3, sk 5, 3 tr in 3rd ch of ch 3 from previous row.

Row 5: Turn, ch 3, 2 tr in same st as ch 3, ch 3, sk 1, *2trcluster, ch 3; rep from * to last 2 sts, sk 1, 3 tr in 3rd ch of ch 3 from previous row.

Row 6: Turn, ch 3, 2 tr in same as ch 3, ch 3, sk 5, *tr in the space of next 2tr-cluster, ch 2, tr in same space; rep from * to last 6 sts, ch 3, sk 5, 3 tr in 3rd ch of ch 3 from previous row.

Continue repeating Rows 5–6 until you reach the desired length. I went until I ran run out of yarn at Row 48. Fasten.