Who wants a cookie? Now you can make your own giant Gingerbread Man! When made with a 4mm hook and aran yarn, he’ll become 60cm/24” tall (wine bottle for scale in the photos).

The pattern includes a Christmas Hat crochet pattern, which you can wear yourself too! Also, the Gingerbread Man has Oreos for eyes, small pockets for keepsakes, candy apples for buttons and a large candy cane.

Needed materials to make this item:

• crochet hook in size G (6) / 4.0mm and a crochet hook in size H (8) / 5.0mm.
• yarn type: light worsted weight / DK
• yarn colours: brown: 750m/775yd white: 200m/220yd red: 250m/275yd orange red: 20m/22yd dark green: 75m/82yd light green: 10m/11yd black: 15m/17yd
• tapestry/sewing needle
• fiberfill
• sewing pins

Needed skills to make this item:

• magic ring
• chain stitches
• slip stitches
• single crochet
• half double crochet
• double crochet
• increasing and decreasing
• basic sewing skills
• basic embroidery skills