Crochet oak leaf pattern, with the acorn it sits beside — 29 rounds
The leaf is the smaller half of this free crochet oak leaf pattern: four rounds and 22 stitches, pressed flat. The acorn beside it takes the other 25 rounds, finishing about 11 cm tall including the stem and about 6.5 cm across the cap, worked on a 3.5 mm hook in four colours, about two hours of work. Stem, cap and nut are one unbroken spiral — five narrow rounds of six stitches, the cap opening out to thirty-six, then a back-loop round at 14 that leaves the overhanging lip. Both pieces are written out below round by round, 29 in all, each with the stitch count it ends on.
Maths verified, not yet made. Every one of the 29 rounds was checked against the round before it by machine — the counts, the increases and the decreases all add up. What nobody can promise you yet is how it sits in the hand.How we check
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Why it is rated Medium
Medium: twenty-five rounds run without a break through three colour changes and a back-loop round, and the nut must be stuffed before round 22 narrows it.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — four colours, all weight 4
scrapsWorsted / aran acrylic or cotton
small amount, about 15 mWorsted / aran acrylic or cotton
about 25 mWorsted / aran acrylic or cotton
scrapsWorsted / aran acrylic or cotton
Tools
4 you probably own, 1 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
Pins
You need to buy
Polyester stuffing (~15 g)
Optional
A stitch marker in a contrast colour for the round start
A damp cloth for pressing the leaf flat
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Tight enough that the stuffing cannot show between stitches. Gauge is not critical here; a looser hand gives a larger acorn, and the leaf grows with it.
Finished size
~11 cm tall including the stem, ~6.5 cm across the cap; the leaf about 5 cm long
How to make the acorn and oak leaf, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US6 sc in mrUK6 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The acorn
One unbroken spiral. Five narrow rounds make the stem, the work opens…25 RNDS
starts in warmTan· magic ring· Piece 1 of 2
First six rounds[6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [12]
The stem
RND 1–51[6]
2[6]
3[6]
4[6]
5[6]
The cap opens out
RND 6–126[12]
7[18]
8[24]
9[30]
10[36]
11[36]
12[36]
Under the cap, straight sides
RND 13–1913[30]
14[30]
15[30]
16[30]
17[30]
18[30]
19[30]
Closing the nut
RND 20–2520[27]
21[24]
22[21]
23[18]
24[12]
25[6]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loops onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneDraw the last six stitches closed with the tail through their front loops, then roll the stem between your fingers to straighten it.
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02The oak leaf
A flat pointed oval worked around a short chain, with every increase…4 RNDS
starts in mossGreen· picked up· Piece 2 of 2
First four rounds[16] [22] [22] [22]
1[16]
2[22]
3[22]
4[22]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreaseBLOback loops onlyst(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is donePress it under a damp cloth and let it dry flat before you sew it — it will hold the shape afterwards.
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Nine notes on the acorn and oak leaf
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02Worked in a continuous spiral — nothing to join and nothing to turn. Mark the first stitch of every round.
03Stem, cap and nut are one unbroken piece. Change to chestnut brown at the end of round 5 and to oatmeal beige at the end of round 13, both on the round boundary.
04Round 14 is worked in back loops only. The front loops of round 13 are left standing, and that ridge is the cap's overhanging lip — it is what stops the acorn reading as a plain egg.
05Stuff the cap and the top of the nut through the open end before round 22. Once the taper narrows you cannot reach back up. Leave the stem unstuffed so it stays slim.
06The leaf begins on a foundation rather than a ring: chain 7, then work 16 single crochet around both sides of that chain — 6 along one edge, 3 into the end chain, 6 back along the other edge, and 1 more into the starting chain. Round 1 records that as its finished count of 16.
07On the leaf, all the shaping sits at the two points: work the round-2 increases as three in a row at each tip and plain single crochet along the two long sides, or the leaf comes out round instead of pointed.
08The leaf is never stuffed. Press it under a damp cloth, let it dry, then sew it flat against the base of the stem where the cap begins.
09Finished size is computed from the stitch counts at the stated hook and yarn, not measured from a made sample.
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