Crochet Road presents: ‘Christmas Road’ - a collection of Christmas Decorations for 2023!

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Christmas is such an exciting time of the year. Festive music, fairy lights, setting up the tree with the family, the smell of gingerbread wafting through the air. Gifts lovingly wrapped under a sparkly Christmas tree, the sound of laughter all around.

Christmas is also a special time for those of us who love to create handmade heirloom pieces that will decorate our homes for years to come.

Here are five gorgeous designs for ornaments created with Tunisian Crochet or made in the Tunisian-crochet style. Make a gift wrapped in a ribbon and adorned with a tiny crochet flower. Whip up a cute and simple heart design that’s perfect for Christmas and all year round! Enjoy the linked double crochet stitch as you create a tiny wreath with embroidered holly berries. Create a bunch of fun and very quick, classic candy canes. And make a jar full of delicious looking Christmas sweets with exciting colourwork techniques. (This one is the most challenging pattern out of the five.)

Each design can be made in under 45 minutes, or a little longer while you’re learning the techniques.

These are the perfect portable projects for this time of year when you most likely have more on your plate than usual.

Clear instructions are given to make a garland using these beautiful Christmas designs. You could also choose to make them as separate tree decorations, add them to gifts and cards, make an Advent Calendar with them or wear your favourite one as a brooch. Another great idea would be to cover a Christmas wreath with a number of these little delights.

Finished size:
These ornaments are all a cute size when made with the suggested yarn and hook.
They range from 5 x 5cm for the heart, wreath and gift to 9 x 3.5cm for the candy cane and 6 x 2.5cm for the lollies.

Can’t wait to see you put your personal creative stamp on the five designs!

Lots of love, Joy xx

Yarn: Scheepjes Catona or similar 4-5ply cotton
Colours: wreath green: 212, light blue-green: 402, medium blue-green: 528 dark blue-green: 391, red: 115, white: 105
Amounts required for garland (total of 6 lollies & 3 of each of the other 4 designs): 25g each of white, green, three blue-greens; 50g red.

Notions:
Few stitch markers
A little polyester fibrefill stuffing (or you could use some of your collection of yarn ends!)
3 x chenille stems (used to be called ‘pipe cleaners’), or 1m medium gauge wire.
Fabric glue/ red sewing thread
Clear nylon filament sewing thread or neutral poly cotton sewing thread
Sharp sewing needle
7 x 20mm small bells, optional
1m x 5mm wide red ribbon, optional
1m x 10mm wide red gingham ribbon, optional
Handful of Straight pins
21 Safety pins (or you could use more straight pins)
For Garland/Bunting strand: 2m Metallic cord or coloured ribbon if desired, (or you could crochet 2m length of chain or crochet cord in your colour choice.)
Yarn Scissors
Tapestry needle

Gauge: As these are Amigurumi -style 3D pieces, it’s not necessary to match gauge. Given for your information only.