Amigurumi Christmas Tree
Materials needed:
Yarn in dark green, white and brown
2 mm crochet hook
Polyester fiberfill
Stitch marker for working in the round
Needle for sewing
Beads in various colors
Scissors
Abbreviations:
sc = single crochet
inc = increase
dec = decrease
sl st = slip stitch
dc = double crochet
hdc = half double crochet
r = round
BLO = back loops only
FO = fasten off
CC = change color
Note: This project is working in continuous rounds. Mark first stitch of each round.
Trunk:
Using brown yarn
R1: ch 2, starting from second chain from hook 6 sc
R2: inc, rep 6x (12)
R3: sc, inc, rep 6x (18)
R4: Work in BLO sc around (18)
R5-6: sc around
R7: dec, 4 sc, rep 3x (15)
R8: sc around
Stuff
F/O leave a long tail for sewing
Tree:
Using dark green and white
R1: ch 2, starting from second chain from hook 6 sc
R2: inc, sc, rep 3x (9)
R3: inc, 2sc, rep 3x (12)
R4: sc around
R5: inc, 3sc, rep 3x (15)
R6: sc around
R7: inc, 4sc, rep 3x, (18)
R8: sc around
R9: 2sc, inc, rep 6x (24)
R10: sc around
R11: 3sc, inc, rep 6x (30)
R12: Work in BLO sc around
R13-14: sc around
R15: 4sc, inc, rep 6x (36)
R16: sc around
R17: Work in BLO sc around
R18-19: sc around
R20: Work in BLO, sc around
R21: 4sc, dec, rep 6x (30)
R22: 3sc, dec, rep 6x (24)
R23: 2sc, dec, rep 6x (18) Stuff the tree
R24: sc, dec, rep 6x (12)
R25: dec, rep 6x (6)
Then we continue crochet next round, starting from the first front loop of R19.
R26: sc arund (36)
R27: 5sc, inc, rep 6x (42)
R28: sc around
R29: (*ch1, skip 2 st, 5dc, skip 2 st, sl st), rep * 7x, (now you have 7 shell stitches)
CC to white
R30: (*sl st to the same st of R28 that u made in R29, 2sc, inc, 2sc), rep * around
R31: Using green, working in front loop of R11, (*ch1, skip 2 st, 5dc, skip 2 st, sl st), rep * 5x (5 shell stitches)
R32: CC to white, (*sl st to the same st of R11 that u made in R31, 2sc, inc, 2sc), rep * around
R33: Using green, workin in front loop of R16, (*ch1, skip 2 st, 5dc, skip 2 st, sl st), rep * 6x (6 shell stitches)
R34: CC to white, (*sl st to the same st of R16 that u made in R33, 2sc, inc, 2sc), rep * around
F/O
Star:
Using yellow yarn
R1: ch 2, starting from second chain from hook 5 sc
R2: 4ch, sl st in the second chain from hook, sc, hdc, sl st, rep 5x
F/O leaving long tail for sewing
Finish:
– Sew the star on the top of tree
– Sew various colors of beads to the tree as many as you like.