Christmas Crochet Bauble Pattern

This Christmas crochet bauble pattern is a beginner friendly pattern that you can embroider with stars to add a special twinkle to your Christmas tree, whatever your skill level.

Easy Crochet Bauble Pattern

This pattern is designed with beginners in mind, using just a basic crochet stitch worked in the round. Alongside stitching up a project that you can hang on your tree with pride this holiday season, you’ll learn and master a number of techniques that will help you create beautiful toys in the Amigurumi style that continues to remain popular.

While making this Christmas crochet bauble pattern, you will learn how to increase your stitches, how to decrease stitches almost invisibly and how to add detail to your projects using embroidery thread.

This pattern was originally created to use at the Knitting & Stitching Show in Harrogate and was used in a workshop. The workshop attendees were such a great group of crafters and I feel lucky to have spent time with them stitching up these cute baubles.

Christmas Crochet Bauble Pattern Details

Materials

• 75m chunky/Size 5 yarn, 100% acrylic yarn – Knitcraft Everyday Chunky, 100% acrylic (100g, 150m)
• 6mm crochet hook
• scissors
• stitch marker
• toy stuffing (fibre fill)
• embroidery thread – DMC E3852

Special Stitches

• insert the crochet hook under the first parallel line and pick up the back strand
• twist the hook to create a twist in the loop
• yarn over the hook with the strand left unworked, bring through the loop on the hook
• Remove fingers from the loop created, and untwist the tail from the ring created as required

dc2tog = double crochet decrease

• Insert hook into next st, YO, bring up loop (2 loops on hook), insert hook into next st, YO, bring up loop (3 loops on hook), YO, pull through all 3 loops

inv dec = invisible decrease – recommended to use in place of dc2tog to prevent gaps in fabric

• Insert hook into front loop of next 2 sts, YO, bring up loop (2 loops on hook), YO, pull through 2 loops

Christmas Crochet Bauble YouTube Tutorial

This video tutorial takes you through how to crochet your bauble, step-by-step, and is aimed at beginners who are unfamiliar counting their stitches. It is more in-depth and slower than my usual tutorials to accommodate for that.

How to make this Christmas Crochet Bauble Pattern

Round 1: Ch 4, sl st to 1st to create ring (or MC), working into centre of ring, 6 sc, DO NOT JOIN – 6 sc

Round 2: 2dc in each around – 12 dc

Round 3: dc in next, 2dc in next – 18 dc

Round 4: dc in next 2, 2dc in next – 24 dc

Round 5: dc in next 3, 2dc in next – 30 dc

Rounds 6-8: dc in each around – 30 dc

Round 9: dc in next 3, dc2tog (or use inv dec)– 24 dc

Round 10: dc in next 2, dc2tog – 18 dc

Round 11: dc in next, dc2tog – 12 dc

Insert toy stuffing

Round 12: dc2tog around 6 dc

Fasten off, leaving long tail

Use long tail to weave through each stitch and close top

Weave end by inserting through bauble and stuffing, and trim

Continue to Embroidering the Star

Embroidering the Star

Using darning needle threaded with embroidery thread:

• insert needle through space between stitches, bringing needle out for beginning of star
• reinsert in stitch 4 rows down, pushing needle through toy stuffing, coming out where point of next star will begin
• repeat for each star point leaving 2-3 sts between each point, ending where star began
• securely tie a knot in ends of embroidery thread and push back into stuffing to hide

Create Hanging Loop – using darning needle threaded with embroidery thread, insert needle through top of bauble to create length of loop required, secure with a knot.