Vintage Christmas Ball Ornament by Holly Lanier

Vintage Christmas Ball Ornament

Crochet
December 2024
DK (11 wpi) ?
2.75 mm (C)
2.25 in (5.5 cm)
US
English
This pattern is available for free.

It’s Christmastime, and these little ornaments couldn’t be more thrilled! They love nothing more than relaxing from the branches of a beautiful Christmas tree and looking down on all the cheerful happenings around them. These mini ornaments are filled with joy, and hope they can spread that joy to you!

Materials:
-Light worsted/DK weight yarn (3 ply) in any two colors. For my ornaments, I used a mix of Amigo from Hobbii and Paintbox Yarns Simply DK from LoveCrafts.
A note on yarn weight: This pattern calls for DK/light worsted yarn to achieve the sizes stated. If you use regular worsted weight/Aran, your ornaments will turn out significantly larger than mine. Please keep this in mind when selecting your yarn.
-C (2.75 mm) crochet hook
-7.5 mm black safety eyes
-Fiberfill (or your stuffing of choice)
-Bent tip tapestry needle
-Scissors
-Stitch marker
-Black embroidery floss
-Sharp sewing needle

Abbreviations:
Abbreviations are in U.S. terms.

sc – single crochet
st/sts – stitch(es)
sl st – slip stitch
dec – decrease (join the next 2 stitches together)
inc – increase (2 single crochet in the next stitch)
R1 – round 1
rep – repeat
** – repeat the group of instructions between the asterisks the number of times indicated.
Note: All rounds are worked continuously (that is, vs. joined rounds.)