The perfect little gingerbread biscuit - you can almost smell them! This is a super quick pattern with no sewing required as the biscuits are crocheted seamlessly. The possibilities are endless: string them along in a decorative garland, attach them to gifts as adorable gift tags (perhaps embroider an initial or a name?), hang them up on the Christmas tree or add them to your kids’ play kitchen (which is what I’m going to do with mine!).

The finished gingerbread man biscuit, using chunky yarn and a 5mm hook measures approximately 10cm (4in) tall and 9cm (3.5in) wide.

Materials:

5mm crochet hook (or a size smaller than recommended for the yarn used)

chunky yarn (I used Stylecraft Special Chunky in Gold and Special Aran in Gingerbread, held double)

small amount of yarn in white (thinner than main yarn used – I used DK)

stitch marker

knitting/darning needle

small pom poms (if using)