Crochet Mini Christmas Tree for Decoration - Free Crochet Pattern

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Last year, I had the wonderful opportunity to design some fun Christmas decorations for LoveCrochet using their Paint Box yarns! I designed some cute mini Christmas trees that are perfect for decorations during the holiday season.

This year, I'm sharing the crochet pattern with you for free! These trees are quick to make and fun too! The color options can be very personalized here according to your other holiday decorations.

I went with fun, bright colors but of course you can tone it down with neutrals or dark muted tones. Or just go traditional with the green!

These mini Christmas trees are only about 4" high, so making a couple and setting them together would be super cute for a mantle or an addition to a centerpiece for the table! Another idea is using a bulky weight yarn and a bigger hook size to make a bigger one!

These crochet Christmas tree decorations use single crochet and the loop stitch, which once you see how it is done - you will pick it right up! The texture is so fun and you can even adjust how big you want your loops to be!

I don't have a video tutorial that I have made for JUST this stitch. However, I have covered this stitch in past tutorials for my Christmas Granny Square Afghan. You can see how to make this stitch in this video that I made of a 2D Christmas Tree Applique. Or you can click here to watch it on YouTube.

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Mini Christmas Tree Free Crochet Pattern

Materials

Paintbox Yarn Aran/Worsted weight in any shade 

Colors in the photos are: 

Bubblegum pink, Green, Lipstick pink 

G/4.0mm hook 

(4.25mm/G hook will work as well)

Poly-fil

Stitch marker

Tapestry needle

Scissors

Pattern notes

Pattern is written in US terms

This pattern is worked from the base to the top of the tree

The base circle will be made by joining after each round, Round 4 will be the last round where we join to the beginning, after this we will be working in a continuous round/spiral 

After Round 4, we will turn our work. This must be done so the loops from the loop stitches stay on the outside.

Do not overstuff the tree - overstuffing will cause the base to become too round and will not stand upright

Loop stitch is worked as follows: (hold the working yarn around your index finger) insert hook into stitch, grab the yarn from behind the index finger as well as the yarn in front of the index finger, pull up a loop (at this point you can pull the working yarn to make the loop on the backside of the work smaller or pull the loop to be bigger), yarn over, pull through all loops on hook. This will create a loop on the backside of your work.

Special stitches

Loop stitch

SC decrease

SC in front loops only

Gauge

1 inch square of SC ~ 6 st x 6 rows

Dimensions

Diameter of base - 3”

Height of tree - 4”

Abbreviations

SC = single crochet, ch = chain

Pattern

Round 1: Magic ring, ch 1, 10SC in magic ring, join to first SC (10)

Round 2: Ch 1, 2 SC in each stitch around, join to first SC (20)

Round 3: Ch 1, SC in each stitch around, join to first SC (20)

Round 4: Ch 1, *2SC, SC, repeat from * around, join to first SC (30)

TURN YOUR WORK

Round 5: Ch 1, SC in front loops only in each stitch around (30)

We will begin working in continuous rounds/spiral, use stitch markers to mark beginning of rounds

Round 6: loop stitch in each stitch around (30)

Round 7: *SC in next 8 st, decrease, repeat from * around (27)

Round 8:loop stitch in each stitch around (27)

Round 9: *SC in next 7 st, decrease, repeat from * around (24)

Round 10: loop stitch in each stitch around (24)

Round 11: *SC in next 6 st, decrease, repeat from * around (21)

Round 12: loop stitch in each stitch around (21)

Round 13: *SC in next 5 st, decrease, repeat from * around (18)

Begin to stuff the poly-fil as you go

Round 14: loop stitch in each stitch around (18)

Round 15: *SC in next 4 st, decrease, repeat from * around (15)

Round 16: loop stitch in each stitch around (15)

Round 17: *SC in next 3 st, decrease, repeat from * around (12)

Round 18: loop stitch in each stitch around (12)

Round 19: *SC in next 2 st, decrease, repeat from * around (9)

Round 20: loop stitch in each stitch around (9)

Round 21: *SC in next st, decrease, repeat from * around (6)

Round 22: loop stitch in each stitch around (6)

Round 23: slip stitch around to close up the top of the tree